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When AI Meets Cybersecurity: Threat and Shield

🤷‍♀️ What now?: Don’t believe everything you see, read or hear so easily. Always verify.

Meanwhile … Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you

📰 Headline Highlights

• Columbia University says hacker stole SSNs and other data of nearly 900,000

• BADCAM: LINUX-BASED LENOVO WEBCAM BUGS ENABLE BADUSB ATTACKS

• US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs

• Connex Credit Union Data Breach Impacts 172,000 People

• Pennsylvania attorney general says cyberattack knocked phone, email systems offline

• St. Paul’s Mayor Confirms Interlock Data Leak

• House of Commons hit by cyberattack from 'threat actor': internal email

• Tens of thousands of Italian hotel guests may be hit by cyber heist

• Ransomware attack on dutch medical lab exposes cancer screening data of almost 500K women

• Manpower discloses data breach affecting nearly 145,000 people

• Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office hit by cybersecurity incident, shuts down digital infrastructure

In other news, Spike in Fortinet VPN brute-force attacks raises zero-day concerns

GOOD READ: Microsoft: An organization without a response plan will be hit harder by a security incident

Hexagon Center was attacked several times this week and we were not surprised. We are glad that nothing was breached and all is well and normal in our system. We are still in business to help you stay safe in the virtual and IT world.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Cyberattack - A malicious attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer system, network, or device. The goal of a cyberattack is to disrupt or damage the target, or to steal data, intellectual property, or money.

• Malware (short for malicious software) - refers to any intrusive software developed by cybercriminals (often called hackers) to steal data and damage or destroy computers and computer systems.

• Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

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