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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Sales Surge After PS5 Launch
It’s rare for a video game to hit its highest position yet on the weekly sales charts months after its initial release, but that’s exactly what Indiana Jones and the Great Circle did. The single-player adventure had an impressive launch back in December, but now—several months later—it’s performing better than ever. When you look at the circumstances behind this unusual…
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Worldwide spending on genAI to surge by hundreds of billions of dollars – Computerworld
This year is expected to be the year of the AI PC, according to Forrester Research. It defines an AI PC as one that has an embedded AI processor and algorithms specifically designed to improve the experience of AI workloads across the central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and neural processing unit, or NPU. (NPUs allow the PCs…
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Multichannel attacks are becoming a serious threat for enterprises – and AI is fueling the surge
Organizations are seeing a steep rise in multichannel attacks fueled in part by an uptick in AI cyber crime, new research from SoSafe has found. 94% of surveyed organizations reported an increase in multichannel attacks over the last year, referring to attacks in which threat actors utilize multiple platforms such as email and SMS. This is in part because there…
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Surge in attacks exploiting old ThinkPHP and ownCloud flaws
Increased hacker activity has been observed in attempts to compromise poorly maintained devices that are vulnerable to older security issues from 2022 and 2023. Threat monitoring platform GreyNoise is reporting spikes in actors leveraging CVE-2022-47945 and CVE-2023-49103 that affect ThinkPHP Framework and the open-source ownCloud solution for file sharing and syncing. Both vulnerabilities have critical severity and can be exploited to execute arbitrary…
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Insurance sector urged to sharpen up third-party risk management as attacks surge
Most breaches affecting the insurance industry come about through third-party attacks, with third-party software and IT behind half of them, according to new research. More than a quarter of companies reported breaches last year, SecurityScorecard found, higher than the S&P 500 average and twice as many as the US energy industry. Notably, third-party attack vectors were behind 59% of these…
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Protecting enterprise endpoints against the festive cyber surge
While many resellers and enterprise end-users will take a well-deserved break during the upcoming festive period, cyber criminals will remain as active as ever. Malicious actors will continue to operate around the clock and seek vulnerabilities to exploit. In fact, between September and December last year, BlackBerry threat Intelligence teams observed a 27% uptick in novel malware to 3.7 new…
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Small businesses could see electricity bills surge 70% as AI data center energy demands skyrocket
Smaller firms will feel the strain from data center development as surging energy demands ramp-up costs, new research shows. The research, co-authored by the Jack Kemp Foundation and Capital Policy Analytics, suggested that US consumers and small businesses could see a 70% uptick in their energy rates on the back of data center power consumption. Already struggling against inflationary pressures,…
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IT services spending set to surge in 2025 as CIOs shift to AI partner solutions
European organizations are expected to ramp up IT services spending in 2025 as CIOs focus their IT budgets on delivering tangible business benefits from generative AI. IT spending as a whole across Europe is expected to hit $1.28 trillion in 2025 — a ‘remarkable’ 8.7% increase, according to Gartner, and the highest growth rate in IT spending in a single…
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Cyber criminal underground “thriving” as weekly attacks surge by 75% in Q3 2024
New data has revealed the third quarter of 2024 saw a record spike in cyber attacks, with a significant escalation in terms of the volume and intensity of virtual threats. Threat intelligence published by Check Point recorded an average of 1,876 attacks per organization, marking a 75% increase compared to the same period in 2023, as well as a 15%…
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Mobile, IoT, and OT Cyber Threats Surge in 2024
A new report from cloud security company Zscaler sheds light on the growing mobile threats on Android operating systems, as well as IoT and OT devices threats. The findings come as more than 60% of the global Internet traffic is now generated by mobile devices and financially-oriented mobile threats have grown by 111% over the last year. A list of…
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