SolarWinds supply chain attack compromises US government agencies
13 Dec 2020
SolarWinds confirms its Orion software updates were trojanised, giving attackers access to US agencies and many other organisations.
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SolarWinds confirms its Orion software updates were trojanised, giving attackers access to US agencies and many other organisations.
DeepMind’s AlphaFold predicts protein structures with accuracy that CASP organisers say largely solves a 50-year-old challenge in biology.
Vastaamo, a Finnish psychotherapy provider, reveals a breach of patient records, and tens of thousands of patients are targeted with extortion.
A ransomware attack forces Düsseldorf University Hospital to turn away emergency patients, prompting a police investigation.
Garmin suffers a multi-day global outage of its fitness and aviation services, reported to be caused by WastedLocker ransomware.
Attackers take over 130 Twitter accounts, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Elon Musk, to promote a bitcoin scam.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says a sophisticated state-based actor is targeting Australian government, industry, and essential services.
OpenAI launches a private beta API giving developers access to its GPT-3 language models, its first commercial product.
Reports reveal the CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned Swiss firm Crypto AG and rigged its encryption devices for decades.
A New York Times investigation reveals Clearview AI, whose face search tool built from billions of scraped photos is used by US police.
Currency exchange firm Travelex takes its systems offline after a New Year’s Eve ransomware attack, disrupting services for UK banks.
Fraudsters reportedly used AI to mimic a chief executive’s voice and persuade a UK energy firm to wire €220,000 to a Hungarian account.