The foreign minister of Italy condemned Monday as a threat to democracy the private investigation firm that prosecutors in Milan say illegally accessed government databases for years to assemble illicit dossiers. Four individuals are under house arrest.
An international crackdown against two prominent strains of information-stealing malware continues, as the U.S. government unsealed an indictment charging Russian national Maxim Rudometov with being a developer and administrator of the Redline infostealer tied to millions of stolen credentials.
Derek Manky, chief security strategist and vice president for global threat intelligence at Fortinet, shares the importance of public-private partnerships in cybersecurity. There's a lot of vetted interest and mutual benefit in such partnerships, and the will to move forward is strong, he said.
The Dutch National Police, working with the FBI, say they've disrupted the Redline and Meta info-stealing malware services after obtaining "full access" to them, including source code and extensive details pertaining to their users, with follow-on "legal actions" now "underway."
Singapore regulators gave banks six months to institute real-time detection tools for blocking impersonation scams or else assume liability for stolen funds. A finalized framework published Thursday also shifts liability onto island-nation telecoms unless they block fraudulent SMS messages
This week, bulk data transfers to China, credit card theft, the Internet Archive still recovering and the Change Healthcare tally is now 100M. Ukraine fought phishers, civil society against the UN cybercrime treaty, TA866 and virtual hard drives spread malware. Google verified Sir Isaac Newton.
A Michigan-based dental practice with 250 centers across nine states has agreed to pay $2.7 million under a preliminary settlement of a proposed consolidated class action lawsuit centered on a 2023 hacking incident reported as affecting more than 1.9 million patients and employees.
An FBI probe into shuttered cybercrime site Genesis Market has led to the indictment of Terrance Ciszek, a now-suspended police detective in Buffalo, New York, who's been accused of buying stolen payment card data and recording a video showing fraudsters how to use it anonymously.
This week, Brazilian police arrested USDoD, Internet Archive is recovering, a Microsoft warning over Kerberoasting and of mounting phishing attacks, Google touted memory safety efforts, Volkswagen said no harm after ransomware attack, and Amazon reported over 175 million customers using passkeys.
A network of family health centers, a public medical center and a plastic surgery practice with nearly 180 years of combined service are among the latest healthcare groups reporting major data theft incidents to regulators. The three hacks affected nearly 740,000 patients and employees.
Hackers may have circumvented a months-old patch for Fortinet gateway devices leading to a warning from the U.S. federal government over its active exploitation. Some security researchers say a February patch may not have fully squashed a flaw.
The U.K. experienced a 50% spike in cybersecurity incidents posing national security risks this year, according to NCSC CEO Richard Horne. Growing advancements in emerging tech are widening the gap between offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, he warned.
Two Sudanese brothers are under criminal indictment in the United States for their role in distributed denial-of-service attacks launched under the moniker of Anonymous Sudan. Among the group's targets were a major Los Angeles hospital and Microsoft.
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Schools and universities in the United States are experiencing a surge in cyberattacks from foreign adversaries like Iran and North Korea, with a new report revealing that educational institutions are the third-most targeted sector in the nation amid increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.
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