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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 | 17

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

'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 | 64

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 | 14

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 | 9

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

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UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM Resorts cyberattack probe

Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China

Judge mostly drags SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin

London council accuses watchdog of 'exaggerating' danger of 2020 raid on residents' data

Iran's MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor

Cyber-crime super-crew Scattered Spider falls in love with RansomHub and Qilin

Call, text logs for 110M AT&T customers stolen from compromised cloud storage

'Gay furry hackers' say they've disbanded after raiding Project 2025's Heritage Foundation

Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people's data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account

Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign

FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots

Evolve Bank & Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6 million people's data

Houthi rebels are operating their own GuardZoo spyware

Scammers double-scam victims by offering to help recover from scams

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard

Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key

Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank

Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor's update systems to spew malware

Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger's credentials

TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network

TeamViewer can't bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened

WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture

Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova

US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts

Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks

Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices

Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant

Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K

Crypto scammers circle back, pose as lawyers, steal an extra $10M in truly devious plan

CISA says crooks used Ivanti bugs to snoop around high-risk chemical facilities

UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin's ransomware shakedowns

Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK

Levi's and more affected in pants-dropping week of data breaches

Admin took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error

Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew

Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider

Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients' records in cyber-attack

Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident'

Russia's cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy

Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals

Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into accounts using creds swiped from other DBs

Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech

Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale

NHS boss says Scottish trust wouldn't give cyberattackers what they wanted

Suspected bosses of $430M dark-web Empire Market charged in US

Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack

Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader

Nigerian faces up to 102 years in the slammer for $1.5M phishing scam

Ukraine busts SIM farms targeting soldiers with spyware

Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin

Crooks crack customer info at tracking device vendor Tile, issue 'extortion' demands

Ransomware crew may have exploited Windows make-me-admin bug as a zero-day

China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought

Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace

UK and Canada's data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach

Christie's confirms RansomHub crooks stole data on 45K clients

Two cuffed over suspected smishing campaign using 'text message blaster'

Akira: Perhaps the next big thing in ransomware, says Tidal threat intelligence chief

New York Times source code leaks online via 4chan

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