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Welcome to Silicon Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 23/06/2023.
Sign of the times? US Department of Justice creates a specialist cyber unit within its National Security Division
Russian Clop criminals begin extorting MOVEit data-theft victims, with US government agencies also attacked
Two executives of banned file storage site Megaupload have been sentenced to prison, after agreeing to testify against Kim Dotcom
Ofcom, accountancy firm EY and Transport for London confirm data stolen by Clop gang after mass hack on MOVEit transfer tool
Cybercriminal gang Clop warn hack victims to get in touch before 14 June, or their stolen data will be published
BBC, Boots, British Airways on growing list of companies affected by hack last week of US data-transfer software used around the world
Russia alleges the US NSA has conducted a mass spying operation on thousands of iPhones in Russia, and that Apple aided it
Amazon settles with US FTC, after alleged privacy violations with its Alexa voice assistant and Ring doorbell cameras
New research from Sharp UK finds nearly half of UK SMEs will invest in new technology in 2023, despite concerns over rising prices
Pension funds now warning hundreds of thousands of members over potential loss of personal data from Capita breach earlier this year
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State-sponsored Chinese hacking group known as 'Volt Typhoon' has been spying on critical infrastructure in the US
Artificial intelligence-powered weapons detection systems used in US schools are less effective than claimed, industry watchers say
South Lanarkshire Council accidentally publishes salaries and national insurance numbers of 15,000 staff in Freedom of Information response
Polish government minister directly blames Russia, after local news websites suffer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
US DoJ charges Russian national with ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure in the US and elsewhere
Paid verification for Instagram and Facebook, dubbed Meta Verified, launches in UK at a cost of £9.99 per month for each service
Search engine giant Google says it will begin to delete inactive accounts unused for more than two years, starting in December
Worldcoin, co-founded by OpenAI chief Sam Altman, close to securing $100m in new funding round amidst 'crypto winter'
Study estimates North Korean hackers have stolen $721m in crypto from Japan since 2017, one-third of global total
Hacking website Genesis Market continues to operate on dark web a month after international operation took down mainstream site
Welcome to Silicon UK Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 12/05/2023.
Sophos report finds ransomware encryption attacks at their highest level for four years, with 66 percent of organisations being targetted
Man alleged to have carried out 2020 hack of public figures including Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, pleads guilty in US
Banks warn of surging fake sale listings, impersonation and investment scams with many scams originating on social media