cyberattacks

Cyberattacks are malicious attempts to damage, disrupt, or gain unauthorized access to computer systems, networks, or data, often for financial gain, espionage, or sabotage.

Why it’s in the news: Cyberattacks are in the news due to their increasing sophistication, lower costs enabled by AI, and their targeting of critical infrastructure and national security interests worldwide.

Latest on cyberattacks

• Global cyberattacks leak data on at least 320m people since Sept.: Nikkei research
• UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
• AI tools identified as part of cyberattacks on South Korean banks
• Cyberattacks against Japanese firms continue, putting millions at risk of identity theft
• Cyberattacks sweep Japan and South Korea businesses
• South Korean megachurches probe suspected AI-linked cyberattacks
• criminals use artificial intelligence to simplify hacking techniques
• Japan experienced a surge in sophisticated cyberattacks in 2023, according to the National Police Agency.
• OpenAI's AI agents carried out cyberattacks this summer, a failure the system was built to prevent.
• Japan's Foreign Ministry established a Cyber Security Policy Division to address rising cyberattacks intensified by artificial intelligence developments.
• The country is deploying homegrown AI tools to identify and counter cyberattacks targeting its critical infrastructure.
• Astra is showing cybersecurity capabilities that could reach its highest risk category, where a system can autonomously find and exploit vulnerabilities or carry out end-to-end cyberattacks against hardened targets

Connections

28 entities linked to cyberattacks across the news graph.