The U.K. government recently embarked on a plan to create its own version of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, but attorney Jonathan Armstrong says he is "pretty skeptical" that this second attempt at privacy reform will successfully make it through the country's Parliament.
What happens next in Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine isn't clear, but experts have been tracking signs that Moscow may be preparing for intensified cyber operations ahead of a spring offensive, developing new wiper malware and getting ready to interfere in European elections and foreign policy.
Australian personal lending provider Latitude Financial Services disclosed to regulators on Thursday hacking incidents affecting more than 300,000 consumers. "Sophisticated" hackers made off with nearly 103,000 driver's licenses and an additional 225,000 "customer records," the company said.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the world of digital assets. In focus between March 10 and 16: a ChipMixer takedown, Euler Finance and Poolz Finance hacks, bugs on 280 blockchains, Dero coin, and a report from the Financial Action Task Force on ransomware financing.
Microsoft's March dump of patches fixes two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, including a critical issue in Outlook that Russian threat actor APT28 has used to target European companies. The vulnerability can be exploited before a user views the email in the Preview Pane.
U.S. cybersecurity officials on Thursday issued an alert about a 4-year-old software vulnerability that has been exploited by hackers, including one APT group, in a federal civilian agency. Users are advised to immediately apply the software patch to the Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX.
A vendor of clinical and third-party administrative services to managed care organizations and healthcare providers serving elderly and disabled patients said a cybersecurity incident last summer has affected more than 4.2 million individuals.
U.S. and German police seized darknet cryptocurrency anonymizing service ChipMixer, which federal prosecutors say cybercriminals used to launder $3 billion including proceeds from ransomware extortion and North Korean cryptocurrency hacking. Among its alleged customers: LockBit and the Russian GRU.
Rapid7 has purchased a ransomware prevention vendor founded by a former Israel Defense Forces captain to strengthen its managed detection and response muscle. The Minerva Labs purchase will allow Rapid7 to deliver advanced ransomware prevention across cloud resources and traditional infrastructure.
MKS Instruments expects a $200 million revenue hit from February's ransomware attack after the hack removed the company's ability to process orders or ship products. The Feb. 3 ransomware attack required the company to temporarily suspend operations at some MKS Instruments facilities.
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a slew of new cybersecurity rules for the companies underpinning the U.S. stock market, the latest sign of increasing unhappiness among Biden administration officials about the private sector's management of digital risk.
In the latest "Proof of Concept" panel discussion, two Capitol Hill observers at Venable, Grant Schneider and Jeremy Grant, join Information Security Media Group editors to break down the Biden administration's new U.S. national cybersecurity strategy and answer the question, "Is it really viable?"
Cybersecurity software giant Rubrik has joined the ranks of organizations that fell victim to attackers who have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra's widely used managed file transfer software, GoAnywhere MFT. The Clop ransomware gang claims to have exploited at least 130 victims.
Threat actors who mine digital assets using other people's infrastructure have found a lucrative new cryptocurrency to motivate their hacking: the privacy-focused currency named Dero. CrowdStrike says it discovered a first - a Dero cryptojacking operation operating on a Kubernetes cluster.
Cybercriminals have been launching attacks against our people, networks, and services for decades with varying success. So, the need to realign our defences to meet the demands of evolving threats is nothing new.
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