French data regulator CNIL has hit tech giants Google and Amazon with some heavy penalties for placing non-essential tracking cookies. Google will pay €100 million and Amazon will pay €35 million.
Notes from a recent ruling by CNIL, France's data protection authority, raised questions about Apple's own privacy compliance even as App Store advertisers are subjected to tougher standards.
AXA France, regional division of European insurance giant AXA Group and France's largest general insurer, has announced that it will no longer reimburse ransomware payments for customers within the country.
France will be the first in Europe to roll out a nationwide facial recognition ID program. Citizens will have a single digital identity tied to their face instead of using different user names and passwords.
A massive fraud campaign dubbed Ticket Heist is selling fake Olympics tickets for the 2024 Paris Summer Games at inflated prices on over 700 sophisticated websites.
Report from UK security think tank RUSI finds that fraud has "reached epidemic levels" in the country and that the volume of attempts should be viewed as a national security threat.
Fraudster revealed how criminals make money using underground bots that steal multifactor authentication codes and link stolen cards to contactless payments like Apple Pay.
New report from DataVisor reveals cybercriminals are increasingly targeting mobile channels to commit fraud, with 90% of mobile fraud originating from Android devices.
Hackers employed homograph attacks and Office 365 email addresses in a coordinated BEC scam to steal over $15 million from over 150 businesses.
Attackers can commit payment fraud using a locked iPhone with Apple Pay Transit Mode set with a Visa card. Both companies evaded responsibility for the vulnerability.
