A sophisticated vishing attack by the suspected ShinyHunters cybercrime gang has leaked business contact information from the New York-based ad tech company Optimizely.
A new research report from ESET finds that the "GoldenJackal" advanced persistent threat group has the capability to compromise air-gapped systems, and has been deploying it in Europe since at least 2022.
The official word from Meta, via its main Instagram account, is that an "issue" that allowed third parties to request password resets for "some people" was fixed on January 11 and that users could safely ignore the strange password reset messages. They also reassured users that there is no new data breach.
South African Banking Risk Information Centre warned that banks in the country had been experiencing repeated DDoS attacks and ransom notes were delivered to a number of staff email addresses.
The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is investigating a data breach at major government software supplier Miljödata that has compromised the personal information of 1.5 million people.
EU data protection authorities are increasingly taking the position that the internal data that Google itself receives from the Google Analytics tool is in violation of GDPR terms. Sweden's data protection authority is indicating that it might be the next one in line to ban it.
Swedish police will be given powers to deploy spyware on devices of suspected criminals. The spyware could turn on cameras, microphones, and access encrypted chat logs or images stored on the device.
An international law enforcement effort that involved multiple agencies from the United States and Europe has taken out a significant chunk of the dark web, putting 179 vendors out of business.
A federal court filing system experienced a sweeping security breach that leaked sensitive non-public case documents, including the identities of witnesses and defendants.
Recent survey on 200 banks worldwide found 4 in 5 of them had experienced at least one SWIFT fraud attempt since 2016, and the problem appears to be growing.
