AI rise will lead to increase in cyberattacks, GCHQ warns
London, UK Reuters The rapid development of novel artificial intelligence tools will lead to an increase in cyberattacks and lower the barrier of entry for less sophisticated hackers to do digital harm, Britain’s GCHQ spy agency warned on Wednesday. That lower entry barrier will also likely contribute to the global rise in ransomware attacks, whereby […]
North Korea grows nuclear, missiles programs, profits from cyberattacks – UN report
United NationsReuters North Korea continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the past year and cyberattacks on cryptocurrency exchanges were an important revenue source for Pyongyang, according to an excerpt of a confidential United Nations report seen by Reuters. The annual report by independent sanctions monitors was submitted on Friday evening to […]
Updated: Far apart at first summit, Biden and Putin agree to steps on cybersecurity, arms control
Updated 9am (AEST)Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Wednesday to begin cybersecurity and arms control talks at a summit that laid bare their deep discord on those issues, human rights and Ukraine. In their first meeting since he took office in January, Biden asked Putin how he would […]
Digital underbelly: As US cities embrace tech, cyberattacks pose real-world risks
JACK GRAHAM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on rising concerns over cybersecurity…
Elite hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike
Washington, DC/London, UKReuters Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks. WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio said the identity of the hackers was unclear, but the effort was unsuccessful. […]