Connectivity and security. As more global enterprises expand their cloud migrations, these two challenges loom larger. Fortinet and Microsoft have now partnered to address these issues, and Fortinet's Piotr Nowotarski and Srija Allam speak to the benefits for customers and partners alike.
The BianLian ransomware group is abandoning malicious encryption in favor of pure extortion, warns the U.S. top cybersecurity agency. A major likely factor in BianLian's shift was cybersecurity firm Avast's January release of a free decryptor.
The Federal Trade Commission has barred the developer of fertility tracking app Premom from sharing users' personal health data with third parties for advertising purposes and has fined the vendor $100,000 for alleged violations of the agency's Health Data Breach Notification Rule.
Data443 has bought Cyren's threat intelligence, URL categorization and email security technology out of bankruptcy for up to $3.5 million. Buying Cyren's anti-spam, virus outbreak detection, IP reputation, URL filtering and Threat InDepth data feeds will boost Data443's existing product portfolio.
The attorneys general of four states have smacked vision care provider EyeMed Vision Care with a $2.5 million fine as part of a settlement in the aftermath of a 2020 email phishing incident that affected 2.1 million individuals in the United States.
Ukraine's top cybersecurity agency says Russian hackers took a sudden interest in obtaining personal data and mounted successful attacks against more than one-third of the country's largest insurers. It predicts the stolen data may end up for sale on the dark web.
The Royal ransomware group, which spun off from Conti in early 2022, is refining its downloader malware using tactics and techniques that appear to draw directly from other post-Conti groups, as well as working closely with trusted former associates of Conti, REvil and Hive, researchers say.
Security researchers say a new Babuk knockoff ransomware group emerged in April and has already claimed targets in the United States and South Korea. Threat intelligence company Cisco Talos says RA Group is the latest criminal group to take advantage of the June 2021 leak of Babuk source code.
U.S. federal prosecutors announced a slew of indictments and arrests in cases involving attempts by foreign nationals to illegally export technology into Russia, China and Iran. The arrests are part of a recently announced Disruptive Technology Strike Force.
An Illinois man pleaded guilty Monday to eight criminal counts stemming from the three years he spent leading a conspiracy to sell stolen financial information on darknet markets. The man, Michael D. Mihalo, 40, founded a darknet carding site known as Skynet Market.
The European Union on Tuesday formally adopted the world's first comprehensive regulatory regime for the cryptocurrency industry in a measure supporters say will tame volatility illustrated by high-profile crashes such as FTX. The proposal, known as MiCA, will go into effect progressively.
A Russian man the U.S. government says was a key actor in Russian ransomware hacking faces federal criminal charges and economic sanctions. A $10 million reward is out for information leading to his arrest. Mikhail Matveev, aka "Wazawaka," was a key figure in the Babuk ransomware-as-a-service gang.
Federal regulators fined a practice management software and services vendor $350,000 in the aftermath of an investigation into a 2018 HIPAA breach that involved a file transfer protocol server mishap. The company said the incident was the result of "a singular human error."
Cloud-based electronic health records vendor NextGen Healthcare is so far facing a dozen proposed class action lawsuits filed in the last week in the same Georgia federal court following the company's disclosure this month of a data breach affecting 1 million individuals.
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