South Korea's National Police Agency has revealed that state-sponsored North Korean hackers have been waging an all-out espionage campaign against the country's defense companies since at least 2022, and have lurked in the networks of some targets for over a year.
The Akira ransomware gang earned approximately $42 million in ransoms after breaching over 250 victims across three continents between March 2023, when the group emerged, and January 2024.
Google's Privacy Sandbox project has been touted as the end of tracking cookies and creepy cross-site following, but it is facing regulatory trouble as the UK ICO has expressed concerns about a collection of "loopholes" that could be used to personally identify and track internet users.
The president signed a bill that requires owner ByteDance to either divest itself of the massively popular app or have it removed from American app stores. National security concerns have driven this process forward, but ByteDance still has the right to challenge the action in court and any ban would be instituted no sooner than January 2025.
UnitedHealth Group has released further details about the devastating Change Healthcare attack that caused widespread damage throughout the US, taking large chunks of revenue from some care providers and in some cases keeping patients from needed medication. The group has confirmed that it made a ransom payment to restore service.
A cyber attack by a suspected cybercrime group has forced Frontier Communications, a Dallas, Texas-based optic-fiber Internet provider, to temporarily shut down its information systems to contain the incident.
Two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti products that were disclosed in January (and patched weeks later) have turned out to be the source of a breach of MITRE, the US government-funded cybersecurity research center. China's nation-state hackers are suspected to be behind the attack given similarities in exploiting these same vulnerabilities in other incidents, but this is not confirmed as of yet.
Global chipmaker Nexperia confirmed a significant data breach after hackers accessed some of its systems and potentially stole sensitive information, including the company’s intellectual property.
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 “large-scale cyber attack” has taken down local government services in several French municipalities since the night of Tuesday, April 9. Local media reported that municipal workers who reported to work on Wednesday were instructed not to switch on their computers or use other devices.










