The FBI arrested and charged a New York man Connor Brian Fitzpatrick with cybercrime. Connor is alleged to be the hacking forum “BreachForums” owner and operator, Pompompurin.
Pinduoduo, a popular Chinese shopping app has been suspended from the Google Play Store after traces of malware were found in the code of previous app versions. Suspected purpose was to pore through user data and find information related to competing shopping apps.
Australia’s Latitude Financial Services is investigating a data breach that impacted two third-party service providers, exposing hundreds of thousands of customer records.
The White House budget is seeking a $145 million increase in cybersecurity spending for CISA, $245 million for training cybersecurity professionals in the energy sector, $63 million for the FBI's cyber investigations division, and $215 million for the Treasury Department to implement zero trust architecture and generally bolster its cyber defenses.
Miami-based healthcare provider Independent Living Systems suffered a data breach that exposed the personal and protected health information of over 4 million customers.
As with most technological developments, there are two sides of the coin. ChatGPT may present businesses with a never-ending pool of opportunities, but the same resource can be exploited to help criminals infiltrate systems more effectively.
Investment scams that involve grooming a target to invest in fraudulent endeavors took off like a rocket in 2022 and led all cyber crime, racking up $3.3 billion in losses on the year.
The UK has followed the US in enacting a TikTok ban that applies to government devices, citing national security concerns. The ban is part of a broader review of potential social media app threats.
The former TikTok employee worked as a risk manager in the company's Safety Operations division for six months and claims that a "complete re-engineering" of the app is the only way to secure user data.
The LockBit ransomware group claims that it was able to penetrate SpaceX via a third party vendor, and is holding some 3,000 engineering design documents that it is threatening to sell.
