The FBI and other national police are touting an operation that dismantled Genesis Market, a marketplace used by ransomware hackers and bank thieves to gain ongoing access to victims' computers. Genesis Market since 2018 offered access to more than 1.5 million compromised computers around the world.
An employee of a Ukrainian utility company installed an unlicensed version of Microsoft Office from a torrent website resulting in two remote access Trojans infecting the company's systems. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine attributes the malware to a group it tracks as UAC-0145.
Hard disk drive maker Western Digital disclosed a hacking incident the company says likely resulted in data theft. Online services offered by the California company - including personal and enterprise cloud storage and email and push notifications - are down as of publication.
Ukrainian law enforcement busted a transnational group of scammers that used more than 100 phishing websites to defraud Europeans. The scammers embezzled nearly $4.4 million by fooling more than 1,000 victims into handing over payment card details, police said.
In this week's data breach spotlight: Telecom giant Lumen reports incidents, Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP discloses vulnerabilities, debt collector NCB suffers a data breach and more data breaches occur in Australia. Also, there's a new Mac info stealer, and Toyota Italy exposed customer data.
A U.S. federal judge sentenced a Nigerian national to four years in prison for running several cyber-enabled schemes aimed at defrauding U.S. citizens out of more than $1 million. The men were arrested four years ago and extradited to Arizona in 2022 from Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
Twitter says its source code was leaked by an unknown user on the popular open-source code collaboration platform GitHub. The social media giant requested a subpoena from a federal court Monday to force GitHub to provide details about the person behind the partial code leak.
The United States sent its top cyber offensive team to NATO ally Albania to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure networks. The Cyber National Mission Force helped find cyberthreats and vulnerabilities on networks likely targeted last year by Iranian threat actors.
This week's roundup of cybersecurity incidents around the world includes attacks on luxury car manufacturer Ferrari, the Indian health system and a Dutch maritime logistics company. Other data breach incidents involve the NBA, Lionsgate, the city of Oakland, McDonald's and Samsung.
Last year was another bonanza in zero-days for Chinese state hackers, say security researchers in a report predicting a permanent uptick in nation-state exploitation of yet-unpatched vulnerabilities. "Attackers seek stealth and ease of exploitation," writes cybersecurity firm Mandiant.
In this week's data breach roundup: medical device manufacturer Zoll, CHU University hospitals, Australian company Latitude Financial, Hawaiian death registry, Los Angeles Housing Authority, Indian Railway ticketing app, updates on U.S. Marshals Service and Congress, and a new ransomware decryptor!
The top U.S. cybersecurity agency says it is testing how to scan critical infrastructure organizations to detect vulnerabilities ransomware hackers can exploit in a bid to have the flaws patched before extortionists also discover them. The Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot started on Jan. 30.
Cybersecurity researchers say they are almost certain they have spotted traces of the advanced persistent threat group Dark Pink, which recently emerged, now apparently attacking victims with a newly improved obfuscation routine to evade anti-malware measures.
Hackers disrupted medical care at a major Barcelona hospital, found out the wireless plans of 9 million AT&T users and stole data of almost 140,000 Hatch Bank customers. Patrons of Chick-fil-A got a nasty surprise. Plus, a breach hit Acer and another one affected members of the U.S. Congress.
Play ransomware hackers attempting to extort the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland dumped 10 gigabytes of stolen information over the weekend and threatened that more dumps may come. Researchers have spotted similarities between the Play, Hive and Nokoyawa ransomware groups.
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