36% of Corvus claims were related to fund transfer fraud in Q3 2022, hitting an all-time high and outpacing ransomware for the first time in a long time. Ransomware cyber insurance claims remain the most costly per incident, however.
Researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign leveraging Facebook posts to bypass email security and steal users' account credentials and personal information.
One of Britain's most popular newspapers, The Guardian, is reporting that a suspected ransomware attack is causing some internal network trouble. The paper's report characterized it as "serious" despite it seemingly not stopping online or offline production of the paper.
Okta is once again in trouble as the company's GitHub repositories have been hacked. There does not appear to be any impact to Okta clients, but the service source code appears to have been stolen in the breach.
The privacy agreement consists of a list of "shared principles" drawn from "commonalities" in existing national laws, even though some OECD signatories have limited or no data privacy laws at the national or federal level.
Digital city services of Antwerp, Belgium, suffered disruption after a ransomware attack compromised IT provider Digipolis, impacting critical departments including police and fire.
A new report from Tenable explores the concerns implicit in the emerging virtual reality market, which is expected by some analysts to be worth as much as $800 billion by 2024, and highlights what are likely to be the biggest metaverse security threats.
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.
The rapporteur for France's lead data protection agency (CNIL) is recommending a six million euro fine for Apple’s breach of the EU’s ePrivacy directive due to privacy violations. Apple had granted exceptions to the ATT framework for a variety of its own pre-installed apps.
The US proposal for a new EU-US data transfer framework that meets GDPR standards was drawn up in early 2022. The EDPB will now scrutinize the arrangement before passing it on to the EU member states and the European Parliament for final decisions.
