The Pokémon developer has confirmed that a data breach took place about two months ago and was the result of illegal access to the company's internal network, spilling internal secrets and some employee contact information.
Sophos found that 64% of healthcare organizations chose to pay ransom after ransomware attacks in 2021, up from 34% in 2020, but only 2% of payers recovered all encrypted data.
Google's Privacy Sandbox has already attracted the attention of antitrust regulators in both the US and UK, with fears of it increasing the company's dominance in adtech. The price is climbing steeply due to delays, and smaller adtech outfits are struggling to keep up.
The Tor network will no longer be officially available to residents of Russia after a government ban. Taking a path that somewhat resembles China's program of internet control, the Russian government has made a series of moves to restrict access to websites.
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.
New report from DataVisor reveals cybercriminals are increasingly targeting mobile channels to commit fraud, with 90% of mobile fraud originating from Android devices.
U.S. Cyber Command uploaded a total of 7 new malware samples used by North Korean hackers to draw attention to tactics used to steal state secrets, conduct corporate espionage and find backdoors into the nation’s critical infrastructure.
The settlement would impact all Incognito Mode data collected from June 1, 2016 to before the start of 2024. Google says that it would delete most of this browsing data, but in some cases would "de-identify" records instead.
State-backed Russian hackers are actively exploiting a combination of MFA configuration vulnerabilities and the documented "PrintNightmare" exploit to penetrate networks and exfiltrate files and emails.
Apple's new iOS 14 privacy labels will address data collection by displaying "data used to track you" and "data linked to you" for each app that is installed on a device.
