In this article, we have collected the hottest news from the world of cybersecurity this week. Google Drive users have lost information, why ChatGPT reveals user data, and much more.
Since last week, user complaints began to appear on Google support forums about recently saved files and folders disappearing from Google Drive. BFMTV reports this .
According to the victims, the cloud service has rolled back to the state of April-May 2023.
The problem was noticed by residents of the UK, South Korea and the USA. It affected both files downloaded via the web interface and synchronized from the application.
However, no changes were found in the activity logs of the affected accounts.
The support team said they are looking into the problem.
At the time of writing, the original complaint post on the Google forum has been removed.
A group of researchers carried out an attack on ChatGPT 3.5, forcing it to disclose training data, including personal information of real people.
Scientists suggested that a chatbot endlessly repeat certain words, for example, the word poem, and as a result they caused the AI to malfunction. Whole chunks of training data appeared in the stream of meaningless generated text.
In particular, they contained scientific articles, template texts from websites, as well as personal information of dozens of real people. The researchers confirmed the authenticity of the information received.
OpenAI has not yet commented on the report.
On November 27, the Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested three people suspected of illegal circulation of payment instruments on the Garantex crypto exchange. Local media reported this .
Among the defendants is 21-year-old Nikita Kondrashov, the eldest son of the head of the Lomonosov district administration, former vice-governor of the Leningrad region, Alexei Kondrashov.
According to investigators, the suspects used other people's bank cards , allegedly because of the need to bypass transfer limits. For this, the actual account holders received compensation.
Kondrashov’s defense argues that only one card appears in the case, for which a power of attorney was received.
However, information about suspicious activity was received by the police from the bank. The criminal case was opened in September.
Sources in the economic police noted that the case could become a precedent in the fight against “gray” money movements.
The LockBit group claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on the Indian Aerospace Research Laboratory (NAL). Hackers are demanding a ransom, threatening to leak stolen data, writes Techcrunch .
As evidence, the attackers published eight files belonging to NAL, including confidential letters, an employee’s passport and other internal documents.
At the time of writing, the organization's website was not working.
About 2 million Texas residents are experiencing water supply problems as a result of a cyberattack on their water utility, NTMWD .
As a result of the incident, the corporate network and communication systems were damaged. However, the administration managed to quickly restore work. According to them, the incident did not affect the production process.
The Daixin Team ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming to have stolen more than 33,000 files containing customer information.
NTMWD, with more than 850 employees, is responsible for water supply, wastewater treatment and solid waste management in 13 cities in the state.
previously faced . The Cyber Av3ngers shut down the main systems, forcing reserve capacity to be used to ensure uninterrupted water supply.
The hacker group Blackjack, together with the SBU, hacked the website of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.
They gained access to more than 50 TB of information, including statistics on the implementation of the “SVO” , personal data of military personnel, certificates on the number of prosthetics and materials from reports to the President of the Russian Federation.
A separate array of data concerns the temporarily occupied Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and their current “leadership”.
After downloading, the hackers deleted the information from the ministry’s servers.
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