National ransomware epidemic hits municipalities, school districts and local government agencies with 621 attacks recorded this year. Things are so bad that U.S. is drafting new legislation to prevent, mitigate and respond to future attacks.
Elon Musk is asking a US District Court to put an end to the FTC privacy settlement the company has been subject to since May of last year, claiming biased investigations and misconduct.
A new set of 16 billion login credentials is not an intentional public leak or data breach. It was accidentally exposed to the internet via improperly secured Elasticsearch and object storage instances for a short period, but long enough for security researchers to hit upon it.
Personal information of over 80 million U.S. households was exposed from an unsecured cloud database, while the owner of the database remains unknown.
Hackers compromised the Namecheap email system to send DHL and MetaMask phishing emails targeting wallet credentials. The company takes full responsibility after initially blaming a third party.
Nation state hackers have been launching phishing attacks against the Biden and Trump presidential campaigns, raising fresh alarm about their cybersecurity preparedness.
Stolen documents from Russia’s FSB indicate that the country is building an IoT botnet capable of gigantic DDoS attacks by rounding up millions of poorly-secured devices.
Two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti products that were disclosed in January (and patched weeks later) have turned out to be the source of a breach of MITRE, the US government-funded cybersecurity research center. China's nation-state hackers are suspected to be behind the attack given similarities in exploiting these same vulnerabilities in other incidents, but this is not confirmed as of yet.
Individuals have been getting notifications of their information being leaked to the dark web since the National Public data breach was announced. But the splashy claims about "every Social Security number" being exposed do not appear to be holding up.
Proposed bill in U.S. will require developers to provide warning labels for apps originating from countries considered as national security risks before consumers download them.
