Interpol led 19 African countries in a massive anti-cybercriminal effort dubbed "Operation Serengeti" that shut down a range of scams and attacks that bled $193 million from 35,000 victims. More than 1,000 people were arrested and more than 134,000 malicious infrastructures shut down.

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Coffee store giant Starbucks was among other organizations affected by a ransomware attack this month on cloud managed service provider Blue Yonder, a Panasonic subsidiary that has more than 3,000 customers. Two UK grocery chains also were impacted.

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Scammers are using everything from fraudulent deals and fake ads to spoofed websites and brand impersonation to target online shoppers who are gearing up for Black Friday as the holiday buying season gets underway, according to cybersecurity firms.

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That’s a lot of pain: $125,000 ransom seems small—but why do the scrotes want it paid in baguettes?

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Interpol, other law enforcement agencies, and cybersecurity firms teamed up for Operation Synergia II, shutting down 22,000 malicious servers that supported ransomware, phishing, and other attacks and arresting 41 people connected to the cybercrime campaigns.

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Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that techniques like fuzzing can't.

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GreyNoise Intelligence researchers said proprietary internal AI-based tools allowed them to detect and identify two vulnerabilities in IoT live-stream cameras that traditional cybersecurity technologies would not have been able to discover.

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UnitedHealth Group, which is still picking up the pieces after a massive ransomware attack that affected more than 100 million people, hired a new and experienced CISO to replace the previous executive who became a target of lawmakers for having no cybersecurity background.

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Cloud computing giant AWS, tipped off by Ukrainian security experts, seized domains that were being used by Russian threat group APT29 to send phishing emails to government officials and enterprises that contained malicious files that would grants the hackers access to the victims' systems.

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