The Conti ransomware gang became one of the more prominent in the cyber crime world starting in 2020. It has pledged to respond to any cyber attacks on the Russian government or the country's critical infrastructure.
The FBI and CISA warn about Iranian hackers expanding the list of targeted programmable logic controllers to compromise critical infrastructure, including water and energy.
Finastra, a fintech service provider for 45 of the 50 largest banks in the world, has sent out data breach notifications to customers tied to postings on criminal underground outlet BreachForums that offered a total of 400 GB of zipped data.
Report from the Internet Society, in partnership with Consumers International, shows continuing concerns with IoT security and privacy, where 53% of consumers distrust connected devices to protect their privacy and handle information in a responsible manner.
Symantec warned that a Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage group responsible for hacking a U.S. state legislature and potentially a defense company had renewed interest in the country.
U.K. study on the collection and exploitation of personal data by Big Tech companies showed that Google's and Facebook's dominance in digital advertising could be harming competition in the market.
Newly leaked internal document suggests that Facebook data sharing program with U.S. top mobile carriers may be highly extensive and intrusive.
Proposed fruits of the Irish DPC's three-year investigation into Facebook's consent and transparency violations are GDPR fines that would amount to a maximum of about $36 million to $42 million, or what the company makes roughly every two hours.
App Tracking Transparency has faced some level of antitrust controversy from the beginning for excluding Apple's own pre-installed apps and handling them with special conditions.
Just ahead of the final vote on the European Union's controversial "Chat Control" proposal, a broad coalition of tech industry figures has come together to appeal to the bloc's governments to reject it in the name of privacy, security and free speech.
