The destructive malware that is currently being spread in Ukraine acts like ransomware in that it locks up target systems by encrypting key files, but there is no payment option.
A Vietnamese threat actor infected at least 500,000 devices worldwide within three months in a malverposting campaign leveraging inappropriate Facebook Ads.
Banco Santander, a Spanish multinational bank, has suffered a third-party data breach after a threat actor accessed a database managed by an external vendor.
A hacker who leaked one million genetic profiles from 23andMe in early October has returned with an even larger trove, this time dumping a little over four million files and including the DNA Relatives feature that allows for connections between relations to be made.
The two data breaches are separate issues, but the common theme is criticism of Oracle's forthrightness about what exactly happened and what victims should expect going forward.
The EU-US data transfer decision at least grants a reprieve for big tech platforms that are built on targeted advertising such as Meta and Google, which are already under regulatory fire on multiple fronts.
The Italian data protection authority has announced that DeepSeek was formally blocked for failure to provide sufficient information in response to the request. The Chinese company appears to have taken a combative tone.
Joint international law enforcement effort involving about a dozen countries has taken down Ragnar Locker ransomware gang's dark web site, with an announcement that at least one arrest had been made.
2020 saw a spike in healthcare data breaches. A new report from cybersecurity firm Tenable finds that this spike can be overwhelmingly attributed to ransomware attacks.
DeFi projects continue to be a popular target of attack for advanced hackers, as a number of finance pools associated with Curve were hit on July 31 for a total loss of about $61 million. The attack appears to have been the result of a vulnerability found in certain versions of the Vyper programming language.
