Suspected Russian and Turkish attackers accuse account owners of copyright infringement, direct them to phishing pages to compromise accounts before demanding ransom from hacked Instagram account owners to restore access.
Following earlier executive orders aimed at shoring up other aspects of critical infrastructure, the White House has issued a 100-day cybersecurity plan for United States water utilities.
Over 95,000 United States consumers lost money to social media scams in 2021. The most common type of scam involves online shopping, but the largest individual losses were caused by investment scams.
KP Snacks notified its partners to expect supply chain problems after a ransomware attack encrypted its IT systems, preventing order placement and shipment of deliveries.
A decision has found GDPR violations in the TCF consent management systems widely used by ad networks, ruling that the process is not adequately transparent to data subjects and does not inform them or secure their data properly.
The purpose of the cyber attack on WSJ appeared to be espionage, with information exfiltrated from email and Google Drive accounts since at least February 2020. Mandiant believes government-backed Chinese hackers conducted the operation.
European oil terminals are reporting recent cyber attacks that have disrupted operations, collectively impacting port operations throughout Europe and Africa. Timing of cyber attacks in Europe raises questions about coordinated campaign.
Just one month into the new year, the Wormhole network breach is already the second major incident involving a DeFi project following the attack on the Qubit Finance network.
German fuel suppliers have been hit by a cyber attack threatens fuel supply. Nature of attack has yet to be identified, but the extent of the disruption would indicate ransomware or a malicious malware attack that wiped files.
Qualys researchers said the 12-year-old memory corruption local privilege escalation vulnerability on polkit's Set User ID program pkexec is easily exploitable by novice attackers and affects every major Linux distribution.
