NJCU RANSOMWARE ATTACK – New Jersey City University’s computer network fell victim to a ransomware hack this past week. The group responsible for the cyberattack demands $700,000 in Bitcoin, lest the sensitive data of staff, students and faculty be released. The university informed students and staff of the June 4-10 breach nearly two months after …
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has seized two internet domains and searched nearly 1,000 social media accounts that Russian threat actors allegedly used to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation. These accounts, part of a bot network on X (formerly Twitter), were created using AI to promote messages supporting Russian government objectives. The bot network, consisting of …
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, settled for $1.4 billion following allegations from Texas claiming that it clandestinely collected millions of users’ bio-metric data. This goes down in history as one of the largest penalties imposed on the social media giant. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton affirmed that the state is “[committed] …
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