ESET denies it was compromised as Israeli orgs targeted with 'ESET-branded' wipers
Says 'limited' incident isolated to 'partner company'
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 3
Cyber-crime
Biz hired, and fired, a fake North Korean IT worker – then the ransom demands began
'My webcam isn't working today' is the new 'The dog ate my network'
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 41
Troubled US insurance giant hit by extortion after data leak
Globe Life claims blackmailers shared stolen into with short sellers
Security17 Oct 2024 |
Brazilian police claim they've cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks
Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 3
Anonymous Sudan isn't any more: Two alleged operators named, charged
Gang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub – then DDoSed GitHub
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 5
US contractor pays $300K to settle accusation it didn't properly look after Medicare users' data
Resolves allegations it improperly stored screenshots containing PII that were later snaffled
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 7
Volkswagen monitoring data dump threat from 8Base ransomware crew
The German car giant appears to be unconcerned
Cyber-crime16 Oct 2024 | 1
Cisco confirms 'ongoing investigation' after crims brag about selling tons of data
UPDATED Networking giant says 'no evidence' of impact on its systems but will tell customers if their info has been stolen
Cyber-crime15 Oct 2024 | 7
Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption
Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report
Cyber-crime15 Oct 2024 | 6
China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it
Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2024 | 17
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 8
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between
Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite?
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2024 | 32
US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants
Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 10
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 55
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health
Updated Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 1
Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers
But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse
Cyber-crime10 Oct 2024 | 3
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 36
Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'
Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 16
Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 22
Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware
USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 24
Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions
Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 9
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 65
Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned
Pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for Russian state broadcasting shutdown
Security08 Oct 2024 | 82
Feds reach for sliver of crypto-cash nicked by North Korea's notorious Lazarus Group
A couple million will do for a start … but Kim's crews are suspected of stealing much more
Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2024 | 2
American Water rinsed in cyber attack, turns off app
Updated It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2024 | 12
Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen
Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic
Security07 Oct 2024 | 6
About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector
Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Big brands among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks
Updated Gangs hit 5% of all Adobe Commerce, Magento-powered stores, Sansec says
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam
Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 13
Euro cops arrest 4 including suspected LockBit dev chilling on holiday
And what looks like proof stolen data was never deleted even after ransom paid
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 | 15
Evil Corp's deep ties with Russia and NATO member attacks exposed
Ransomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services
Cyber-crime01 Oct 2024 | 11
NCA unmasks man it suspects is both 'Evil Corp kingpin' and LockBit affiliate
Aleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 |
Australian e-tailer digiDirect customers' info allegedly stolen and dumped online
Full names, contact details, and company info – all the fixings for a phishing holiday
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 | 1
Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances
Only level-one trauma unit in 400 miles crippled
Cybersecurity Month30 Sep 2024 | 19
If you're holding important data, Iran is probably trying spearphish it
It's election year for more than 50 countries and the Islamic Republic threatens a bunch of them
Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 6
Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more
Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 5
Feds charge 3 Iranians with 'hack-and-leak' of Trump 2024 campaign
Snoops allegedly camped out in inboxes well into September
Cyber-crime27 Sep 2024 | 12
Victims lose $70K to one single wallet-draining app on Google's Play Store
Attackers got 10K people to download 'trusted' web3 brand cheat before Mountain View intervened
Cyber-crime26 Sep 2024 | 22
Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations
Updated See it, say it… not sorted just yet as network access remains offline
Cyber-crime26 Sep 2024 | 62
RansomHub genius tries to put the squeeze on Delaware Libraries
Extorting underfunded public services for $1M isn't a good look
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 5
China claims Taiwan, not civilians, behind web vandalism
Taipei laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 2
Russia's digital warfare on Ukraine shows no signs of slowing: Malware hits surge
Severe incidents may be down, but Putin had to throw one in for good measure
Cyber-crime24 Sep 2024 | 9
How to spot a North Korean agent before they get comfy inside payroll
Mandiant publishes cheat sheet for weeding out fraudulent IT staff
Cyber-crime24 Sep 2024 | 19
'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting
Still no ‘R’ word, but smells like ransomware from here
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 6
Necro malware continues to haunt side-loaders of dodgy Android mods
Updated 11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 2
US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist
Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks
Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 26
Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data
Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach
Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 10
Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims
Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 7
Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them
To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 50
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin
Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 25
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds
Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 21
Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life?
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 1
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT
Exclusive Getting sloppy, Xi
CSO18 Sep 2024 | 32
Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform
Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 18
Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared
Feature 'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 29
Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware
Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 9
Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M
Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up
Cyber-crime17 Sep 2024 | 2
Chinese national accused by Feds of spear-phishing for NASA, military source code
May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development
Cyber-crime17 Sep 2024 | 6
Germany’s CDU still struggling to restore data months after June cyberattack
Putting a spanner in work for plans of opposition party to launch a comeback during next year's elections
Cyber-crime16 Sep 2024 | 1
Prison just got rougher as band of heinously violent cybercrims sentenced to lengthy stints
Orchestrators of abductions, torture, crypto thefts, and more get their comeuppance
Cyber-crime16 Sep 2024 | 20
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