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The year 2023 saw three significant events that raised the stakes for cybersecurity professionals.

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation and released a decryption tool that victims can use to regain access to files locked by the malware. Court documents show that the U.S.

With cybercrime projected to cost $8 trillion in 2023 and businesses, particularly smaller ones, often lacking the resources and expertise to keep up, the digital sector is fast becoming the most vulnerable one.

A total of 26,447 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2023, surpassing the previous year by over 1500 CVEs. The figures come from the latest report by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), published today.

A new cybercrime marketplace, OLVX, has emerged and is quickly gaining new customers looking to purchase tools to conduct online fraud and cyberattacks.

There has been a wide range of major cybersecurity incidents in 2023, from nation-state espionage campaigns to attackers gaining a gateway to thousands of enterprises through software supply chain vulnerability exploitations.

The company activated a new feature called iMessage Contact Key Verification in another attempt to block impersonators and sophisticated threat actors abusing its iMessage server infrastructure.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT a year ago on November 30, 2022. The public release of the large language model (LLM) chatbot quickly sparked discussion about the societal impact generative AI will have – both good and bad.

Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched a new Secret Code feature to help users protect sensitive conversations with a custom password on the messaging platform.