From Phish to Phish Phishing: How Email Scams Got Smart – Check Point Blog

In short, malicious emails will become easier to create and more difficult to stop.

Your phone’s secret network activity: 10 times worse than DNS logs reveal | Cybernews

Many data brokers may use that data for behavior profiling, analytics, and advertising, and it may also be sold to third parties. Commercial spyware, such as Pegasus, used to track journalists, political dissidents, and others, could be delivered via ad networks or other legitimate infrastructure your apps rely on.

Why are cyberattacks increasingly targeting health care?

Why hospitals? It’s likely because of the massive databases of sensitive personal information they operate, and the importance of daily operations running smoothly.

Ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, putting lives at risk

Cyberattacks have played havoc with the bottom lines of companies all over the world. They’re also starting to kill people.

Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver’s seat instead of automating the car?

In this new effort, the research team wondered if it might not be easier and cheaper simply to build a robot that can be taught how to drive a car and put it in the driver’s seat of a normal vehicle.

My family was scammed out of a $15K Carnival Cruise — here’s how I’m fighting to get it back

https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/lifestyle/my-family-was-scammed-out-of-a-15k-carnival-cruise-heres-how-im-fighting-to-get-it-back/

Rural hospitals are particularly vulnerable to ransomware, report finds | CyberScoop

The threat facing U.S. health care systems is no longer theoretical, with several important health care providers getting hit by ransomware attacks in recent months. 

Have you answered a spam call by accident? Your next move is extremely important

A database of your information is slowly being pieced together by malicious actors, “stored, repackaged and sold from one scammer to the next.” By offering up more information — even by simply answering the phone — that faux pas is “valuable to scammers who might try it again later” and “sell your number to the highest bidder,” 

London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack | Ars Technica

The outage has led hospitals, including Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital Trusts, to cancel operations and procedures involving blood transfusions. The cancellations include transplant surgeries, which require blood transfusions.

Russia Aims Cyber Operations at Summer Olympics

Two Russian state-aligned threat actors have been carrying out online influence operations designed to undermine the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris.