Welcome to IT Pro's News in Review, a weekly bite-sized bulletin of the top tech stories of the week, for the week ending 29 July, 2022.
This week's stories:
- Ransomware now strikes one in 40 organisations per week, Check Point find
- UK to collaborate with South Korea on 5G, 6G development fund
- Price hike for consumers as data breach costs rocket to all-time high
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Trump's AI executive order could leave US in a 'regulatory vacuum'News Citing a "patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes" and "ideological bias", President Trump wants rules to be set at a federal level
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TPUs: Google's home advantageITPro Podcast How does TPU v7 stack up against Nvidia's latest chips – and can Google scale AI using only its own supply?
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15-year-old revealed as key player in Scattered LAPSUS$ HuntersNews 'Rey' says he's trying to leave Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters and is prepared to cooperate with law enforcement
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The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters group is targeting Zendesk customers – here’s what you need to knowNews The group appears to be infecting support and help-desk personnel with remote access trojans and other forms of malware
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Impact of Asahi cyber attack laid bare as company confirms 1.5 million customers exposedNews No ransom has been paid, said president and group CEO Atsushi Katsuki, and the company is restoring its systems
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The US, UK, and Australia just imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime group – 'we are exposing their dark networks and going after those responsible'News Media Land offers 'bulletproof' hosting services used for ransomware and DDoS attacks around the world
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A notorious ransomware group is spreading fake Microsoft Teams ads to snare victimsNews The Rhysida ransomware group is leveraging Trusted Signing from Microsoft to lend plausibility to its activities
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Volkswagen confirms security ‘incident’ amid ransomware breach claimsNews Volkswagen has confirmed a security "incident" has occurred, but insists no IT systems have been compromised.
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The number of ransomware groups rockets as new, smaller players emergeNews The good news is that the number of victims remains steady
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Teens arrested over nursery chain Kido hacknews The ransom attack caused widespread shock when the hackers published children's personal data
