North Korea's new record for stolen crypto, $1.34 billion, represents 61% of the total of about $2.2. billion stolen in 2024. Skilled state-backed North Korean hackers are almost single-handedly keeping numbers above the $1 billion level globally.
While an uptick in cyber attacks on US hospitals is on trend for 2020, the FBI is warning that it has evidence of a coordinated criminal attack on the country's healthcare system.
The website defacement only lasted for about 30 minutes and in itself was a fairly minor incident, with the attackers posting a cryptocurrency scam reminiscent of the Twitter breach in July.
North Korean hackers intensify their efforts against blockchain and Web3 developers, using nearly 200 malicious npm packages in the ongoing Contagious Interview hacking campaign.
The International Criminal Court is investigating a cyber attack with the assistance of Dutch authorities after intruders compromised its information systems with sensitive information about ongoing cases.
Both WhatsApp and Signal have already indicated that they will pull their business from the UK market entirely over privacy concerns if the Online Safety Bill ultimately becomes law.
The 2021 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report confirms that threats to industrial operations are rising both in number and severity and while monitoring is up, but 48% say that they cannot be sure that they have not been breached.
Mandiant analyzed data published from ransomware attacks and discovered that they exposed sensitive OT information that could be used to analyze targets to craft sophisticated attacks.
DoppelPaymer ransomware gang demanded Bitcoins worth about $34 million to unlock Foxconn's data encrypted in a ransomware attack that stole 100 GB of data and encrypted 1,200 servers.
Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP has notified more than 3.4 million people that a December 2023 data breach exposed their personal information.
