Binance CEO pleads guilty to money laundering charges

The Binance chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, has resigned after pleading guilty to money laundering violations. The Justice Department said it was requiring Binance, the largest crypto-exchange in the world, to pay $4.3bn (£3.4bn) in penalties and forfeitures. It said Binance Read More …

Konni Campaign Distributed Via Malicious Document

FortiGuard Labs recently identified the use of a Russian-language Word document equipped with a malicious macro in the ongoing Konni campaign. Despite the document’s creation date of September, ongoing activity on the campaign’s C2 server is evident in internal telemetry. Read More …

Social engineering attacks lure Indian users to install Android banking trojans

Microsoft has observed ongoing activity from mobile banking trojan campaigns targeting users in India with social media messages designed to steal users’ information for financial fraud. Using social media platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, attackers are sending messages designed to Read More …

NATO Exercises to Enhance its Cyber Resilience

Cyber Coalition, one of the world’s largest cyber defence exercise, aims to enhance NATO, Allies and partners’ ability to defend their networks and operate together in cyberspace. The Exercise provides a unique platform for collaboration, experience-sharing, best practices and experimentation. Read More …

Data stolen in hack of nuclear energy testing facility Idaho National Lab

The Idaho National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy and one of the country’s foremost advanced nuclear energy testing labs, has suffered a breach that released the details of employees online. A hacking group called SiegeSec took responsibility Read More …

Hackers accessed sensitive health data of Welltok patients

Hackers accessed the personal data of more than a million people by exploiting a security vulnerability in a file transfer tool used by Welltok, the healthcare platform owned by Virgin Pulse. Welltok, a Denver-based patient engagement company that works with Read More …

K-12 schools improve protection against online attacks, but many are vulnerable to ransomware gangs

Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks, but lax cybersecurity means thousands of others are vulnerable to ransomware gangs that can steal confidential data and disrupt operations. Since a White House conference Read More …

Canada: Current and former public service, RCMP, military members affected by data breach

The federal government is warning current and former public service employees and members of the RCMP and Canadian Armed Forces their personal and financial information may have been accessed in a data breach that occurred on Oct. 19. The breach Read More …

‘I employ a lot of hackers’: how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks

Six Group counts its profit in millions, but the financial pipework it controls moves billions. Its operations, which include the Spanish and Swiss stock exchanges, count as critical national infrastructure and this gives it a close relationship with governments and Read More …

Toyota finance business confirms ransomware attack, data breach

Toyota Financial Services (TFS), a subsidiary of the popular automaker, has confirmed suffering a ransomware attack. In a statement company stated that Toyota Financial Services Europe & Africa “recently identified unauthorized activity on systems in a limited number of its Read More …