Beijing’s Justice Bureau says that Wangshendongjian Technology has provided it with the capability to capture mobile phone numbers and email addresses associated with the sending device. AirDrop sharing encryption has been in question for some time.
A grave warning from FBI director Christopher Wray: Chinese hackers can be expected to continue to infiltrate critical infrastructure, and similar activity is likely proceeding successfully.
US and UK water companies Veolia North America and Southern Water have confirmed a ransomware attack and a data breach that leaked personal information.
A botnet used by a state-backed Chinese hacking group has lost at least some of its capacity, according to security officials that spoke to Reuters anonymously. The Volt Typhoon group has been targeting US critical infrastructure since at least mid-2021.
Trello user data leak resulted in the personal information of 15 million people being scraped from a public API and listed for sale on a popular dark web hacking forum.
Insurance giant Allianz SE's annual survey on business risk finds that organizations are most concerned about cyber events going into 2024, once again placing it as their top risk category above business interruption and natural catastrophes.
Apparel giant VF Corporation has disclosed in a regulatory filing that the December ransomware attack leaked the personal information of over 35 million customers.
The HPE security breach is not known to be related to the recent announcement from Microsoft that Russian hackers had penetrated the inboxes of its senior leadership. It instead appears to have a connection to a May 2023 attack that the company had previously disclosed.
The 1.2 terabyte MOAB file is broken up into over 3,800 folders, each one representing a prior data leak that saw personal information or credentials make their way to the open internet. In total there are over 26 billion records.
Today, data flows have become infinitely more complex in what has come to be known as surveillance capitalism. The challenge is how to future proof privacy legislation, learning the lesson of what worked with credit reporting laws as well as other more recent measures.
