The purpose of the cyber attack on WSJ appeared to be espionage, with information exfiltrated from email and Google Drive accounts since at least February 2020. Mandiant believes government-backed Chinese hackers conducted the operation.
Leveraging the Hancitor malware, the ransomware gang earned $43.9 m after compromising 49 critical infrastructure entities in finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and IT.
Company confirmed that a five-year-old Slack bug leaked your hashed password to other group participants if you interacted with an invite-sharing feature.
Google settles lawsuit accusing it of violating Arizona state's Consumer Fraud Act by continuing to collect user information for location tracking even after they had opted out, racking up massive profits in the process.
A Quantum ransomware attack on Professional Finance Company (PFC) impacted 657 healthcare organizations and leaked sensitive patient data for millions of patients.
A new study from ETH Zurich is causing some serious re-evaluation of the use of cloud-based password managers, as the researchers found an assortment of vulnerabilities in three of the most popular choices. This range of vulnerabilities make a similar range of known attacks possible, up to a dozen with the most readily compromised option.
Report found that Russian intelligence agencies FSB and SVR collaborated with ransomware gangs to compromise US government-affiliated organizations using cybercriminals tools and infrastructure.
A statement from TeamViewer indicated that the security breach was detected on June 26, and an employee account was apparently compromised as the APT group's source of access. There is not yet any mention of loss of data.
According to a new joint warning published by the CISA, NSA and FBI, exploits by the Chinese hackers have been going on for at least five years in some victim critical infrastructure environments.
CISA published an insight document for critical infrastructure organizations to prepare for the transition to new post-quantum cryptography standards that NIST will announce soon.
