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Plus: A ransomeware gang steals data on 8,000 preschoolers, Microsoft blocks Israel’s military from using its cloud for surveillance, call-recording app Neon hits pause over security holes, and more.
Ransomware groups continued to plumb the depths of abject immorality this week with a new tactic: extorting preschools by stealing toddlers’ personal information and threatening their parents. In a statement, Microsoft president Brad Smith said the firm has taken the decision to “cease and disable” some “specific cloud storage and AI services and technologies” that it was providing to Israeli forces. “These intrusions are conducted with a particular focus on maintaining long-term stealthy access by deploying backdoors on appliances that do not support traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools,” the company wrote in a brief about Brickstorm.
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