The fourth draft data protection bill looks to be no less contentious, as it adds vital protections but also exempts the country's government from all of its terms and appears to give tech platforms a fairly free hand in sending citizen data overseas.
The ransomware attack on AirAsia took place on November 11 and 12, with samples of the stolen personal data being leaked to the group's dark web site about a week later. The posted samples contain employee personal information as well as passenger booking information.
Losing Ireland "main establishment" status means that any national DPA in the EU could bring direct GDPR action against Twitter on behalf of its citizens without the standard collaborative process that ultimately funnels everything through the Irish DPC.
Iranian hackers installed crypto miner on federal agency’s network after exploiting unpatched Log4Shell vulnerability on the VMWare Horizon server to gain access. The threat actors moved laterally to the domain controller, compromised credentials and implanted reverse proxies on several hosts to maintain persistence.
New EU anti-money laundering regulations currently under discussion would include a ban on privacy coins such as Dash, Monero and Zcash that add further layers of anonymity to the standard blockchain transaction.
Researchers discovered thousands of Amazon RDS snapshots shared publicly either accidentally or deliberately that were inadvertently leaking clients’ personally identifiable information (PII).
The announcement has raised questions in some circles as to what the extent of the cyber task force's plans are. "Hacking back" is a very contentious concept that exists in a murky international water of cyber engagement norms and unspoken rules.
Russian software company presented itself as being US-based and provides code that assists app developers in tracking user online activity. About 8,000 Android and iOS apps, available through the official app stores, make use of it.
Phishing scams by a Chinese threat actor ‘Fangxiao’ employs over 42,000 brand impersonation domains to earn advertising revenue and spread malware via WhatsApp messages.
Hive ransomware, one of the biggest ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) strains circulating since 2021, has at this point brought in $100 million in ransom payments and the total victim count is at least 1,300 organizations.









