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Latest news on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory developments, data breaches and enforcement actions happening around the world.

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Cyber SecurityNews

Nearly 60% Of Organizations Suffered Accidental Data Loss via Email in Last 12 Months

May 27, 2022
Research found that email was the riskiest channel for accidental data loss, accounting for 65% of data losses, ahead of cloud sharing and instant messaging platforms.
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Cyber SecurityNews

NSA: Sanctions on Russia Having a Positive Effect on Ransomware Attacks, Attempts Down Due to Difficulty Collecting Ransom Payments

May 26, 2022
NSA director of cybersecurity says ransom payments are more difficult to process due to lack of access to assorted banking options, and inability to purchase necessary technology to set up the infrastructure for new ransomware campaigns.
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Cyber SecurityNews

FBI: Hackers Injected Malicious PHP Code Into Online Checkout Pages to Scrape Credit Card Data

May 26, 2022
The FBI says hackers who scraped credit card data by injecting malicious PHP code on an online checkout page were targeting U.S. businesses since September 2020.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Bad Bot Traffic Report: Almost Half of All 2021 Internet Traffic Was Not Human

May 25, 2022
Bad bot traffic makes up half of all internet activity, and is nearly double that of "good bots" that perform legitimate functions such as indexing and automated responses.
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Data PrivacyNews

Swiss Government Proposes Backdoor in Its Banking Secrecy Laws for Spy Agency; Pressure Applied by UN Over Human Rights Concerns

May 25, 2022
Swiss banking secrecy laws began to see significant erosion in 2018, and are facing another substantial blow as the country's government is proposing to allow its spy agency to monitor financial transactions.
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Data PrivacyNews

Report on RTB: Adtech “Biggest Data Breach Ever Recorded,” Online Behavior More Exposed in Countries Without Privacy Regulations

May 24, 2022
Study finds RTB adtech systems share online behavior data 294 billion times per day in the U.S. and 197 billion times per day in Europe. Average internet user in the US is exposed 747 times each day; in Europe it is 376 times per day.
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Cyber SecurityNews

DOJ Rules “Good Faith” Security Researchers Will No Longer Be Prosecuted Under CFAA

May 24, 2022
While the CFAA and all of its troubled language remains in place, the DOJ has announced that security researchers who do not have malicious intent do not have anything to fear anymore.
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Banco de Mexico headquarter in Mexico showing bank data and biometric data
Data PrivacyNews

Mexican Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Warrantless Access to Bank Data but Strikes Down National Registry of Cell Phone Biometric Data

May 23, 2022
Privacy advocates were upset with the bank data decision, but were also handed a win by the Supreme Court with its ruling that the national government could not go ahead with a plan to collect the biometric data of cell phone users.
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Roblox game on smartphone showing trojan code in Synapse X
Cyber SecurityNews

Hackers Compromised Synapse X Scripting Engine To Inject Trojan Code Into Roblox Game

May 23, 2022
Hackers injected trojan code into the Roblox scripts by compromising the Synapse X engine, allowing them to install DLL libraries capable of breaking applications and destroying data.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Multiple NFT Projects Attacked After Commonly-Used “Mee6” Discord Bot Hacked

May 23, 2022
Mee6 is a very popular Discord bot that automates a wide variety of functions. A compromise led to an assortment of associated NFT services seeing spam and hacking attempts.
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Nearly 60% Of Organizations Suffered Accidental Data Loss via Email in Last 12 Months

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NSA: Sanctions on Russia Having a Positive Effect on Ransomware Attacks, Attempts Down Due to Difficulty Collecting Ransom Payments

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FBI: Hackers Injected Malicious PHP Code Into Online Checkout Pages to Scrape Credit Card Data

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