Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran's internet WeRedEvils alleges successful attack on infrastructure, including data theft Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 5
Fortune 50 biz coughed up record-breaking $75M ransom to halt leak of stolen data They say crime doesn't pay. They're right – it's the victims doing the paying Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 12
UK plans to revamp national cyber defense tools are already in motion Work aims to build on the success of NCSC's 2016 initiative – and private sector will play a part Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 7
UK crimebusters shut down global call-spoofing outfit that claimed 170K-plus victims Suspected devs behind Russian Coms cuffed – now to find the users of the nastyware Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 10
US sends cybercriminals back to Russia in prisoner swap that freed WSJ journo, others Techno-crooks greeted by grinning Putin after landing Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 27
FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can't touch election systems PSA comes amid multiple IT services crises in recent days Cyber-crime01 Aug 2024 | 16
Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency Meanwhile, US apparently considers further AI hardware sanctions Cyber-crime01 Aug 2024 | 10
Ransomware infection cuts off blood supply to 250+ hospitals Scumbags go for the jugular Cyber-crime31 Jul 2024 | 35
'LockBit of phishing' EvilProxy used in more than a million attacks every month Insight Leaves a trail of ransomware infections, data theft, business email compromise in its wake Malware Month30 Jul 2024 | 7
Intruders at HealthEquity rifled through storage, stole 4.3M people's data No mention of malware or ransomware – somewhat of a rarity these days Cyber-crime29 Jul 2024 | 5
Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers Cyber-crime26 Jul 2024 | 9
Beware of fake CrowdStrike domains pumping out Lumma infostealing malware PSA: Only accept updates via official channels ... ironically enough Malware Month25 Jul 2024 | 3
Uncle Sam accuses telco IT pro of decade-long spying campaign for China Beijing has a long history of recruiting US residents to carry out various espionage activities Cyber-crime25 Jul 2024 | 8
Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos Updated With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious Cyber-crime24 Jul 2024 | 2
Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers President apologizes in advance for job losses Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 5
Cybercrooks spell trouble with typosquatting domains amid CrowdStrike crisis Latest trend follows various malware campaigns that began just hours after IT calamity Cyber-crime23 Jul 2024 | 4
Global cops power down world's 'most prolific' DDoS dealership One arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect's identity yet Cyber-crime22 Jul 2024 | 1
LA County Superior Court closes doors to reboot justice after ransomware attack Some rest for the wicked? Cyber-crime22 Jul 2024 | 6
Cybercrooks crafting solo careers in wake of ransomware takedowns More baddies go it alone as trust in big gangs withers, claims Europol Cyber-crime22 Jul 2024 | 2
Two Russians sanctioned over cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure Supposed hacktivist efforts previously linked to the Kremlin's GRU Cyber-crime22 Jul 2024 | 5
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?
Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so
Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems
DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder For the want of an underscore
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+ Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs
UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM Resorts cyberattack probe 17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will 'relentlessly pursue' miscreants around the globe Cyber-crime19 Jul 2024 | 16
Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China Run by the NSA, the FBI, and Five Eyes nations, who fooled infosec researchers, apparently Cyber-crime19 Jul 2024 | 30
Judge mostly drags SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin Russia-invaded software biz 'grateful for the support we have received' CSO18 Jul 2024 | 3
London council accuses watchdog of 'exaggerating' danger of 2020 raid on residents' data You escaped a big fat fine! Take the win and run, won’t you? Malware Month17 Jul 2024 | 26
Iran's MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor India, Turkey, also being targeted by campaign that relies on corporate email compromise Malware Month17 Jul 2024 | 11
Cyber-crime super-crew Scattered Spider falls in love with RansomHub and Qilin Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork Malware Month16 Jul 2024 |
Call, text logs for 110M AT&T customers stolen from compromised cloud storage Snowflake? Snowflake Cyber-crime12 Jul 2024 | 21
'Gay furry hackers' say they've disbanded after raiding Project 2025's Heritage Foundation Ultra-conservative org funnily enough not ready to turn the other cheek Bootnotes12 Jul 2024 | 63
Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people's data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account Letters from CISO Ethan Steiger suggest the data related to job applications Cyber-crime11 Jul 2024 | 6
Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign Scumbag targeted many victims – and those who tried to help them Cyber-crime11 Jul 2024 | 64
FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots RT News snarks back after it's accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin Cyber-crime09 Jul 2024 | 11
Evolve Bank & Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6 million people's data Making cyberattack among the largest ever recorded in finance industry Cyber-crime09 Jul 2024 | 6
Houthi rebels are operating their own GuardZoo spyware Interview Fairly 'low budget', unsophisticated malware, say researchers, but it can collect the same data as Pegasus Malware Month09 Jul 2024 |
Scammers double-scam victims by offering to help recover from scams Scum keep databases of the people they've already skimmed Cyber-crime09 Jul 2024 | 6
Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals Exclusive Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Malware Month05 Jul 2024 | 73
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Cyber-crime05 Jul 2024 | 36
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 35
Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise Malware Month02 Jul 2024 | 2
Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor's update systems to spew malware Notorious 'Andariel' crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack Malware Month02 Jul 2024 |
Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger's credentials Fasten your seat belts, secure your tray table, and try not to give away your passwords Security01 Jul 2024 | 61
TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network Updated Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? CSO28 Jun 2024 | 25
TeamViewer can't bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened Updated Claims customer data, prod environment not affected as NCC sounds alarm Cyber-crime28 Jun 2024 | 25
WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 6
Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 20
US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 13
Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks Admits it's not sure some clicks came from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 11
Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons Security26 Jun 2024 | 24
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing CSO26 Jun 2024 | 20
Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 3
Crypto scammers circle back, pose as lawyers, steal an extra $10M in truly devious plan Business is more lucrative than you might think Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 18
CISA says crooks used Ivanti bugs to snoop around high-risk chemical facilities Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 3
UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin's ransomware shakedowns Attacking the NHS is a very bad move Malware Month25 Jun 2024 | 26
Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 2
Levi's and more affected in pants-dropping week of data breaches A busy few days for security teams Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 5
Admin took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error Who, me? Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard? Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 54
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew 'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 9
Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider At least they didn’t get paid their $50M ransom demand Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 11
Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients' records in cyber-attack Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 4
Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident' Downtime set to crash into next week Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 13
Russia's cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 9
Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals Interview Cybercriminals claim they used a zero-day to breach pathology provider’s systems Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 25
Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into accounts using creds swiped from other DBs Railco goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards users about spilled card details and more Cyber-crime19 Jun 2024 | 12
Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech Two decades in the clink would be quite an education Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 | 14
Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |
NHS boss says Scottish trust wouldn't give cyberattackers what they wanted CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 | 13
Suspected bosses of $430M dark-web Empire Market charged in US Cybercrime super-souk's Dopenugget and Zero Angel may face life behind bars if convicted Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 1
Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack Four years on and it's still paying for what California attorney general calls 'unacceptable' practice Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 3
Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader Spanish plod make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 22
Nigerian faces up to 102 years in the slammer for $1.5M phishing scam Crook and his alleged co-conspirators said to have used Discord to coordinate Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 9
Ukraine busts SIM farms targeting soldiers with spyware Russia recruits local residents to support battlefield goals Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 8
Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin 28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe Malware Month13 Jun 2024 | 13
Crooks crack customer info at tracking device vendor Tile, issue 'extortion' demands Updated Who tracks the trackers? Cyber-crime13 Jun 2024 | 5
Ransomware crew may have exploited Windows make-me-admin bug as a zero-day Symantec suggests Black Basta crew beat Microsoft to the patch Malware Month12 Jun 2024 | 2
China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months Cyber-crime12 Jun 2024 | 13
Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in Cyber-crime11 Jun 2024 | 1
UK and Canada's data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz Cyber-crime11 Jun 2024 | 14
Christie's confirms RansomHub crooks stole data on 45K clients A far cry from the half-million claim that crims originally boasted Cyber-crime10 Jun 2024 |
Two cuffed over suspected smishing campaign using 'text message blaster' Thousands of dodgy SMSes bypassed network filters in UK-first case, it is claimed Cyber-crime10 Jun 2024 | 23
Akira: Perhaps the next big thing in ransomware, says Tidal threat intelligence chief Interview Scott Small tells us gang's 'intent and capability' should get the attention of CSOs Malware Month09 Jun 2024 | 3
New York Times source code leaks online via 4chan Updated Breaking breaking-news news Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 43
Frontier Communications: 750k people's data stolen in April attack on systems Company says just names and SSNs affected, watering down RansomHub’s claims Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 8
Cisco fixes WebEx flaw that allowed government, military meetings to be spied on Researchers were able to glean data from 10,000 meetings held by top Dutch gov officials Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 12
Russian hacktivists vow mass attacks against EU elections But do they get to wear 'I DDoSed' stickers? Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 56
FBI encourages LockBit victims to step right up for free decryption keys The bad news? Gang wasn't deleting victim data after payments Malware Month06 Jun 2024 | 6
Uncle Sam seeks to claw back $5M+ stolen from trade union through spoofed email Funds are currently seized after being sent to offshore accounts Cyber-crime06 Jun 2024 | 8
TikTok confirms CNN, other high-profile accounts hijacked via zero-day vulnerability Beware of zero-click malware sliding into your DMs Cyber-crime05 Jun 2024 | 13
What is RansomHub? Looks like a Knight ransomware reboot Malware code potentially sold off, tweaked, back at it infecting victims Malware Month05 Jun 2024 | 1
4 cuffed following probe into holiday scheme for cybercrooks Public officials allegedly bribed to allow extradition-dodging travel Cyber-crime05 Jun 2024 | 6
London hospitals left in critical condition after ransomware attack Pathology lab provider targeted, affecting blood transfusions and surgeries Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 77
Christie's stolen data sold to highest bidder rather than leaked, RansomHub claims Experts say auctioning the auctioneer’s data is unlikely to have been genuinely successful Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 9
Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak Analysis Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18
Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm' Turns out opting out actually works? Cyber-crime03 Jun 2024 | 31
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 20
Cyber cops plead for info on elusive Emotet mastermind Follows arrests and takedowns of recent days Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 4
New Nork-ish cyberespionage outfit uncovered after three years Sector-agnostic group is after your data, wherever you are Cyber-crime31 May 2024 |
FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn't like that one bit Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 1
US Treasury says NFTs 'highly susceptible' to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals Narco kingpins aren't coming for your apes, but internet con artists still are Cyber-crime30 May 2024 | 13
Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains Operation Endgame just beginning: 'Stay tuned,' says Europol Malware Month30 May 2024 |
Cybercriminals raid BBC pension database, steal records of over 25,000 people This just in: We lost your personal info, but here's 2 years' worth of Experian Cyber-crime30 May 2024 | 19
Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever' DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 12