Recent rules passed in India that threaten end-to-end encryption are being challenged in court by WhatsApp. New "traceability" rules require social media platforms with at least five million users to be able to identify the originator of a message.
Pro-Russian Killnet DDoS group took responsibility for the cyber attack that shut down the EU parliament website after members passed a resolution designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Bad bots account for 30% of internet traffic and are increasingly used in account takeover and API attacks, while human traffic fell to an 8-year low of just over half of all internet traffic.
China has added a "color code" in their national surveillance system to mark citizens according to their level of COVID-19 contagion risk and flag those with yellow and red codes for quarantine.
A Vietnamese threat actor infected at least 500,000 devices worldwide within three months in a malverposting campaign leveraging inappropriate Facebook Ads.
Hackers demanded $17 million in Compal's security breach despite its denial of the ransomware attack. Compal also claimed that its production lines were not affected.
A ransomware gang that recently hit major UK retailers such as Marks & Spencer with cyber attacks is now setting its sights on US companies, according to a warning from Google's security team.
U.S. face cyber challenges amidst the pandemic with a DDoS attack on Federal health agency and an ongoing disinformation campaign that sows fear and confusion in the public.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged five members of the cybercrime gang Scattered Spider for related cyber attacks affecting numerous individuals and organizations, including Okta, Caesars Entertainment, Twilio, DoorDash, MailChimp, Reddit, and Riot Games.
Intelligence firm CipherTrace is claiming that it has developed a tool that can trace Monero cryptocurrency transactions, and that it will be provided exclusively to the U.S. DHS.
