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Office of the New York State Attorney General: New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a settlement with a public accounting firm, Wojeski & Company (Wojeski), to strengthen its data security to protect consumers’ data.
CBC News: The federal Liberals plan to create a financial crimes agency to tackle online scams, all part of a national anti-fraud strategy, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced.
The Target: Video game chat platform Discord.
The Take: The data compromised may have included usernames, email, billing information, the last four digits of credit card numbers, IP addresses and messages with customer support.
The Vector: The company stated that an unauthorised party had compromised one of Discord’s third-party customer service providers, leading to the access of “a limited number of users” who had been in contact with the customer service or trust and safety teams.
This breach highlights the extreme importance of timely software updates for known software vulnerabilities, not only in systems directly under a firm’s control, but in third-party systems the firm relies upon as well. The longer a firm, or its vendors, hold out on deploying the most up-to-date software for their systems, the greater the chance an attacker will exploit the issue.
Yahoo Finance: New research commissioned by global S&P500 corporate payments company, Corpay, finds that 99% of UK finance leaders surveyed have experienced payments-related cyber incidents in the past two years, exposing the fragility of legacy systems and an urgent need for change.
Tech Radar: Cybersecurity has never been more critical than in today’s hyper-connected world, where businesses increasingly rely on third-party vendors to deliver essential services.
CSO Online: AI agents are now hacking computers. They’re getting better at all phases of cyberattacks, faster than most of us expected. They can chain together different aspects of a cyber operation, and hack autonomously, at computer speeds and scale.
Investing.com: Armis and Fortinet, a prominent cybersecurity player with a market capitalization of $66 billion and impressive gross profit margins of 81%, announced an expanded partnership aimed at simplifying security programs and strengthening cyber resilience for organizations worldwide.
TechCrunch: Hackers working for the North Korean government have stolen more than $2 billion in crypto so far this year, according to blockchain analysis firm Elliptic.
Cybersecurity Dive: More than seven of every 10 public companies on the S&P 500 now flag their use of artificial intelligence as a material risk in their public disclosures, according to a report released by The Conference Board.
SecurityWeek: A threat actor supposedly formed of members of known hacking groups has claimed the theft of large amounts of data from dozens of Salesforce customers.
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