An inquiry into the May 2023 Xplain data breach found that 5% or 65,000 of the 1.3 million files the Play ransomware gang leaked were relevant to the Swiss government.
The total cost of cybercrime jumped to $12.5 billion in 2023, and the FBI logged a record 880,418 complaints (a 10% increase from the previous year). This is in part being fed by ransomware attacks, which came close to doubling in total cost from 2022 to 2023.
Sam Altman's Worldcoin project will not be available in Spain for up to three months, and may face future actions under the GDPR. The country's data protection authority, the AEPD, has ordered the company to stop collecting personal information due to privacy concerns.
Insurance giant Fidelity Investments has suffered a third-party breach linked to the US-based subsidiary of Indian tech juggernaut Infosys, impacting nearly 30,000 customers.
BlackCat affiliates have been complaining on dark web forums that they had breached victims successfully, but that the ransomware gang had not paid out their percentage. It appears they have been stung by an exit scam.
Payment card services provider American Express has notified authorities and customers of a third-party breach affecting a merchant processor that leaked payment card information.
Microsoft is now saying that the Russian hackers accessed "some" source code. And while customer-facing systems were not breached, the hackers accessed some confidential emails to customers.
Should the bill make it all the way through the legislative process in its present form, the TikTok ban would give ByteDance 165 days to find a buyer for the app. If it cannot or will not sell TikTok within that period, the app would then be banned from US app stores.
A joint cybersecurity advisory by federal agencies warns healthcare organizations of targeted ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware attacks in retaliation against the FBI’s botched seizure.
The self-replicating malware's name refers back to the infamous "Morris worm" that tore through the early version of the internet in the late 80s. Morris II focuses on tricking GenAI into turning input into malicious output and spreading it.
