Ransomware attacks are causing a spike in cyber insurance rates as insurers need to cover ransom amount and recovery costs if hackers fail to make good on unlocking the compromised systems.
NSO Group was found to not only have exceeded its legal level of access to the WhatsApp servers and broken the terms of service with its Pegasus spyware, but to also have violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as California state law.
California’s 2018 net neutrality law will now be enforced after a challenge by the state's biggest internet providers was shot down by an Eastern District of California judge.
It's fair to say that TikTok is having an even rougher 2020 than most companies with French privacy regulator CNIL opening a probe into parent company ByteDance's operations.
Google's privacy sandbox proposal now plans to phase out third party cookies from the Chrome browser by 2022, and has laid out what is at least a theoretical roadmap to preserving the targeted ad industry without the major incursions into user privacy that are so common today.
“Many Americans are lost” when it comes to dealing with data breaches. According to a new survey by Lexington Law, many do not even check whether or not they are victims.
Russian darknet market Hydra emerged as the hotspot for illegal transactions within three years, earning $1.37 billion in cryptocurrency transactions.
A subdomain of Ferrari was compromised and used to host an NFT scam, but appears to have netted only a few hundred dollars in Ethereum before it was identified and taken down.
The LabHost phishing service had been active since 2021 and was responsible for the theft of at least 480,000 credit and debit card numbers with 64,000 pin numbers. According to the London Metropolitan Police, university students were among the 37 suspects recently rounded up in a law enforcement operation that took down the LabHost phishing service.
A massive brute force password attack involving 2.8 million IP addresses targets VPN devices from various companies including Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, and SonicWall.
