
Emma Woollacott
Emma Woollacott is a freelance journalist writing for publications including the BBC, Private Eye, Forbes, Raconteur and specialist technology titles.
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Zscaler is the latest company hit in the expanding Salesloft Drift victims list
News The company has warned customers that their data may have been accessed, saying it's implemented extra safeguards in response
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Google hits back at 'entirely false' reports of major Gmail security breach
News Reports of a massive Gmail hack affecting billions of users have been denied by Google
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Enterprises need to patch these Citrix flaws now
News Organizations should move quickly to install patches, according to Citrix
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Ransomware attack on IT supplier disrupts hundreds of Swedish municipalities
News The attack on IT systems supplier Miljödata has impacted public sector services across the country
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IBM and AMD are teaming up to champion 'quantum-centric supercomputing' – but what is it?
News The plan is to integrate the two technologies to create scalable, open source platforms
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4.5 million people just had their data exposed in the TransUnion breach
News The credit reporting agency is believed to be the latest victim of a Salesforce-based attack
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Warning issued to Salesforce customers after hackers stole Salesloft Drift data
News Customers were targeted through compromised OAuth access tokens from Salesloft Drift integrations
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A notorious hacker group is ramping up cloud-based ransomware attacks
News The Storm-0501 threat group is refining its tactics, according to Microsoft, shifting away from traditional endpoint-based attacks and toward cloud-based ransomware.
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Hackers are abusing ConnectWise ScreenConnect, again
News A new spear phishing campaign has targeted more than 900 organizations with fake invitations from platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
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Public sector cyber leaders are tired of clunky, outdated tools
News Cybersecurity practitioners in the public sector need more powerful tools to contend with a growing array of threats
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Security researchers have just identified what could be the first ‘AI-powered’ ransomware strain
News Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b model, ‘PromptLock’ generates malicious Lua scripts via the Ollama API.
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AI means cyber teams are rethinking their approach to insider threats
News Nearly two-thirds of European cybersecurity professionals see insider threats as their biggest security risk – and AI is making things worse.
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Data I/O shuts down systems in wake of ransomware attack
News Regulatory filings by Data I/O suggest the costs of dealing with the attack could be significant
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Google strikes big win with $10 billion Meta cloud deal
News As Meta continues its AI drive, the company is looking outside for the necessary infrastructure
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Employee distraction is now your biggest cybersecurity risk
News Workplace distraction is the top reason organizations fall victim to cyber attacks, according to new research.
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Apple just released an emergency patch for a zero-day exploited in the wild
News Apple is warning millions of users of iPhones, iPads and Macs to update their software to protect against an out-of-bounds write vulnerability
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Russian hackers are using an old Cisco flaw to target network devices – here’s how you can stay safe
News With the aim of carrying out espionage, Russia's Center 16 is targeting infrastructure organizations around the world
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Cyber teams are struggling to keep up with a torrent of security alerts
News Fragmented identity security processes are creating blind spots, and the proliferation of tools doesn't help
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The Allianz Life data breach just took a huge turn for the worse
News Around 1.1 million Allianz Life customers are believed to have been impacted in a recent data breach, making up the vast majority of the insurer's North American customers.
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US authorities take down prolific 'Rapper Bot' botnet
News The Rapper Bot botnet was responsible for a series of large-scale DDoS attacks on government agencies and tech companies. Now it's gone.
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Flaw in Lenovo’s customer service AI chatbot could let hackers run malicious code, breach networks
News Hackers abusing the Lenovo flaw could inject malicious code with just a single prompt
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UK telecoms firm takes systems offline after cyber attack
News The Warlock ransomware group said it was selling a million stolen documents
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Malicious URLs overtake email attachments as the biggest malware threat
News With malware threats surging, research from Proofpoint highlights the increasing use of off-the-shelf 'phish kits' like CoGUI and Darcula
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Warning issued as new Pakistan-based malware group hits millions globally
News Tempting people in with offers of pirated software, the network installs commodity infostealers, according to CloudSEK
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