Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents and breaches around the world. This week, we check in on a breach at a law firm that does work for Uber, Dutch software maker Nebu, the latest in Oakland, California, and more. Oh, are Western Digital cloud services still down? Yes.
North Korean hackers who use social engineering tactics for espionage have learned that less is more when it comes to coaxing victims into clicking a malicious link. Hackers that Google tracks as Archipelago might not introduce a malicious link until after a chain of emails has been exchanged.
Spanish National Police on Friday arrested a teenager hacker who allegedly stole the sensitive data of more than half a million taxpayers from the national revenue service and boasted in an online podcast about having access to personal data of 90% of the population.
Warning to criminals: Could that cybercrime service you're about to access really be a sting by law enforcement agents who are waiting to identify and arrest you? That's the message from British law enforcement agents, who say they're running multiple DDoS-for-hire sites as criminal honeypots.
From heightened nation-state aggression to the procession of crippling zero-days, high-profile cyberattacks have escalated dramatically in the past year. CrowdStrike's 2023 Global Threat Report sheds light on each of these trends. Fabio Fratucello, field CTO international, CrowdStrike shares analysis.
U.S. federal prosecutors say an Estonian man was prepared violate U.S. export regulations by selling a license for penetration testing software to a Russian individual. Andrey Shevlyakov has been on a U.S. blacklist known as the Entity List since 2012.
OpenText, Varonis and Forcepoint joined Google and Microsoft atop Forrester's data security rankings, while Trellix and Broadcom fell from the leaders category. Data protection historically focused on delivering security controls, but firms are increasingly looking to address adjacent use cases.
A former U.S. Army physician set to go to trial next month in a case alleging a scheme to provide military medical records to the Russian government contends they will not get a fair trial unless they are tried separately from their alleged co-conspirator spouse.
The FBI and other national police are touting an operation that dismantled Genesis Market, a marketplace used by ransomware hackers and bank thieves to gain ongoing access to victims' computers. Genesis Market since 2018 offered access to more than 1.5 million compromised computers around the world.
Not every ransomware group uses a larger-than-life persona designed to scare victims into immediately acceding to bogeyman extortionists' demands. Recently discovered Rorschach - aka BabLock - ransomware, researchers have found, opts instead for speed, stealth and more modest ransom demands.
The U.S. Department of Justice seized virtual assets worth $112 million in a crackdown on "pig butchering," a romance-based cryptocurrency investment scam. Cybercriminals used six accounts to launder funds from cryptocurrency confidence scams, federal prosecutors said.
More threat actors are dedicated to attacking industrial organizations, and that increasing volume and sophistication of attacks has left organizations clamoring for suppliers with expertise in safeguarding OT infrastructure, said Rockwell Automation's Mark Cristiano.
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