European lawmakers on Thursday denounced the commercial spyware industry and chastised half a dozen member nations for deploying spyware against citizens or selling it abroad. "Spyware is part of the toolkit of authoritarians who undermine democracies," said Dutch MP Sophie in 't Veld.
As countries across the globe adopted real-time payments at breakneck speed over the past year, experts said authorized push payments fraud sharply increased. APP scams nearly doubled year-over-year compared to other types of fraud. ACI Worldwide's Jackie Barwell shared fraud trends in a new report.
Chinese hackers in a state-run operation compromised hundreds of organizations through a zero-day vulnerability in a popular email security appliance, warns cyber threat intelligence firm Mandiant. Hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway appliances.
Microsoft's June dump of patches for the first time in months doesn't include a fix for an actively exploited zero-day in a slew of fixes for 69 vulnerabilities spread across the computing giant's portfolio of products. Among them are SharePoint, Exchange and servers that enable multicasting.
Microsoft says a newly identified Russian military intelligence threat actor uses noisily destructive payloads in a bid to intimidate mostly Ukrainian targets. The computing giant dubs the threat actor Cadet Blizzard and says it carried out the January 2022 WhisperGate attacks against Ukraine.
Sumo Logic has axed 8% of its workforce less than a month after Francisco Partners paid $1.7 billion to take the data analytics vendor private. The company told California's Economic Development Department on June 7 that it would lay off 79 staff at its Silicon Valley headquarters the following day.
Bipartisan legislation proposing to help rural hospitals better address cybersecurity personnel shortages cleared a Senate committee Wednesday amid signs of a deepening ransomware crisis affecting hospitals serving areas with low population density.
European lawmakers on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of restrictions for the artificial intelligence industry, approving a regulatory package obliging generative AI model makers to mitigate societal risks and banning a slew of applications, such as biometric recognition in public places.
Each year, billions of dollars are transferred in and out of money mule accounts to support a variety of money laundering schemes. But banks are now using machine learning and AI more effectively to spot mule accounts. Two experts shared the latest approaches and tools for beefing up AML programs.
A French conglomerate will buy Australia's largest publicly traded cybersecurity company to expand its cyber service delivery capability in the high-growth Oceania market. The Tesserent deal will help Thales to accelerate its development road map and boost its footprint in Australia and New Zealand.
Swedish privacy regulators ordered Spotify to pay 5 million euros after finding the music streaming service not forthcoming enough with how it uses consumer data. Spotify in an emailed statement said the investigation revealed that "only minor areas of our process" were at odds with the GDPR.
A rural Illinois medical system will shut down on Friday partly due to fallout from a 2021 ransomware incident as a wave of extortionate malware exacts rising costs from the healthcare industry. "These problems have no end in sight," said Mike Hamilton of security firm Critical Insight.
Mihai Ionut Paunescu, who hosted "bulletproof" infrastructure for malware, received a prison sentence of 36 months. His sentencing concludes a 10-year effort by prosecutors against a trio of hackers who created and distributed the Gozi banking Trojan.
Hackers hit the e-commerce industry with 14 billion attacks in 15 months, pushing it to the top of the list of targets for web application and API exploits. A new Akamai report blames digitalization and the wide range of vulnerabilities hackers can exploit in web applications.
Our website uses cookies. Cookies enable us to provide the best experience possible and help us understand how visitors use our website. By browsing databreachtoday.co.uk, you agree to our use of cookies.