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A court in Georgia has ordered the imprisonment of Mission Gate founder and venture capitalist George Bachiashvili, who is currently on trial for allegedly embezzling investment profits from former Georgian PM Bidzina Ivanishvili.Bachiashvili had previously been given bail of 2.5 million GEL ($900,000), but the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs reports that the investor had crossed the border into Armenia on March 2, violating the bail’s conditions.Judge Giorgi Gelashvili has upheld the prosecution’s motion to hold Bachiashvili in custody as a result, saying that the bail violation justifies a more stringent detention measure.According to Georgian television channel TV Pirveli, Bachiashvili…

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The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security held a full committee hearing on Wednesday to examine threats posed to the homeland by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cyber actors and transnational criminal groups. During the hearing, experts provided detailed insights into the sophisticated tactics employed by these entities to undermine national security. They also cautioned that Beijing’s cyber operations are designed to surveil and infiltrate—and eventually control —these critical systems and defense-related supply chains. The witnesses at the hearing on “Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security” included Michael Pillsbury, senior fellow for China strategy…

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said.The botnet, tracked under the name Eleven11bot, first came to light in late February when researchers inside Nokia’s Deepfield Emergency Response Team observed large numbers of geographically dispersed IP addresses delivering “hyper-volumetric attacks.” Eleven11bot has been delivering large-scale attacks ever since.Volumetric DDoSes shut down services by consuming all available bandwidth either inside the targeted network or its connection to the Internet. This approach works…

The Role of Differential Privacy in Protecting Sensitive Information in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2025 Differential privacy (DP) protects data by adding noise to queries, preventing re-identification while maintaining utility, addressing Artificial Intelligence -era privacy challenges. In the era of Artificial Intelligence, confidentiality and security are becoming significant challenges. Traditional anonymization techniques, such as pseudonymization and k-anonymity, have proven inadequate against sophisticated re-identification attacks. A robust privacy-preserving mechanism called differential privacy (DP) introduces mathematically guaranteed noise to dataset queries while maintaining statistical utility. This article uses differential privacy in healthcare, finance, and government data analytics…

The world of Web3 and blockchain technology holds immense potential for revolutionizing industries, from finance to supply chain management. However, despite many business leaders realizing the potential, one critical barrier stands in the way of widespread blockchain adoption: many businesses are hesitant to adopt because of valid security concerns, with billions of dollars in yearly losses for web3 cyber attacks. Despite the advancements in blockchain technology, the ecosystem remains vulnerable to various attack vectors and common hacks, which deter institutional and large-scale adoption. Setting the Scene: Trends and Statistics Rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The total value locked (TVL) in…

In this Help Net Security video, John Grancarich, Fortra’s Chief Strategy Officer, discusses the 2025 Fortra State of Cybersecurity Survey and highlights escalating concerns among security professionals about AI-driven threats and a shortage of cybersecurity skills. The survey reveals that 83% of organizations identify phishing and smishing as top security risks, with 50% expressing increased unease over evolving technologies like generative AI. To combat these challenges, 77% of respondents plan to focus on identifying and closing security gaps, while 75% aim to enhance security culture and awareness within their organizations. Despite these proactive measures, 45% of security leaders cite a…

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U.S. authorities have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024. Investigators believe hackers who breached LastPass in 2022 were behind the attack. Despite the threat actors’ efforts, law enforcement agents traced $23,604,815.09 of the stolen digital assets between June 2024 and February 2025 to the following cryptocurrency exchanges: OKX, Payward Interactive, Inc. (dba Kraken), WhiteBIT, AscendEX Technology SRL, Ftrader Ltd (dba FixedFloat), SwapSpace LLC, and Rabbit Finance LLC (dba CoinRabbit). A forfeiture complaint unsealed by the U.S. Justice Department yesterday and first spotted by crypto fraud investigator…