Suspects face prison sentences after hacking email accounts to access Ring cameras, initiate and live-stream swatting attacks, and threaten and taunt responding police officers.
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Alicia Hope has been a journalist for more than 5 years, reporting on technology, cyber security and data privacy news.
Researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign leveraging Facebook posts to bypass email security and steal users' account credentials and personal information.
Digital city services of Antwerp, Belgium, suffered disruption after a ransomware attack compromised IT provider Digipolis, impacting critical departments including police and fire.
The FBI and Europol seized 48 internet domains for DDoS-for-hire services in a multi-prong operation, charged six administrators with cybercrimes, and obtained customer databases.
Ransomware attack on the cloud computing company Rackspace caused email outages for thousands of customers forcing it to transfer customers from its Hosted Exchange service to Microsoft 365.
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Security researchers discovered an Android malware active since 2008 in Google Play Store and third-party app stores stealing Facebook logins of 300,000 users in 71 countries.
The DoD has published a strategy and roadmap directing all the department's agencies to migrate to zero trust architecture by 2027. Strategy identified 90 target capabilities and 62 capabilities to achieve “more advanced zero trust.”
Ragnar Locker ransomware gang targeted the municipality of Zwijndrecht but instead hacked a local Belgian police unit, releasing sensitive police data, including investigation reports and criminal records.
