Nearly half of Brazil's citizen data is offered in underground forum with a starting bid price of $15,000 and a minimum bid increase of $1,000. Seller is also offering to look up specific individual data for a small fee of $150.
News has recently emerged that the US Census Bureau was compromised by a cyber attack in January 2020 which was traced back to a Citrix vulnerability that had just been publicly disclosed about a month prior.
The City of Dallas, Texas, has suffered a Royal ransomware attack that impaired critical IT systems, including computer-assisted police dispatch and fire response services.
Mayor's office of Lisbon has been handed a $1.4 million fine by the country's data protection commission for providing the personal data of activists and organizers to foreign diplomats, including Russia’s foreign ministry.
Estonia takes over presidency of EU and hosts major Digital Single Market conference on free movement of data, touching on data flow and data localization.
More than 110 civil society organizations have jointly issued a statement against the COVID-19 digital surveillance performed by governments around the world to curb the pandemic.
A class action lawsuit accuses Oracle of creating “global surveillance” profiles for five billion people worldwide, attaching things like purchase records and GPS locations to their name and contact information.
A new vulnerability chain discovered by Oasis Security can compromise the Claude AI chatbot and does not require the target to have the app installed or even have an account with the service. The attack chain instead begins with a malicious webpage doctored up to place highly in search results for Claude, which passes the user to a pre-filled chat URL that exploits other vulnerabilities in the AI agent.
In the wake of news that OpenAI agents independently breached Hugging Face and accounts with several other services, Anthropic has conducted a sweeping review of Claude activity and found that its own AI models have hacked their way to unauthorized internet access and into other organization's networks on at least three occasions.
A UK GDPR fine that would have cost Clearview AI £7.5 million fine has been overturned, as an appeals court found that lead regulator ICO was outside of its jurisdiction in penalizing the foreign facial recognition firm.
