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The Ministry of Justice has said it is aware of a data breach affecting prisons in England and Wales. Confidential prison layouts had been leaked onto the dark web in the past two weeks, according to The Times. A former Read More …
Change Healthcare—a subsidiary of the global health company UnitedHealth Group — has restored its medical billing services nine months after suffering an unprecedented ransomware attack that left providers with serious cashflow problems, threatened access to care, and leaked sensitive information Read More …
Meta provided insight this week into the company’s efforts in taking down more than 2 million accounts that were connected to pig butchering scams on their owned platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Pig butchering scams are big business, with hundreds of Read More …
Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world, and this dominance makes it a great vector for cybercriminals to use to spread malware to unsuspecting users. The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team recently found what Read More …
Ford has denied suffering a data breach frecently, saying the information circulating around the web belongs to a third party and is, for the most part, publicly available. A known leaker with the alias EnergyWeaponUser recently posted a new thread Read More …
Far-right influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate has become the target of an anonymous hacktivist group. Sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of subscribers to Tate’s “online university” was stolen. On Thursday, hackers announced their breach of Tate’s “The Real Read More …
Finastra, a London-based financial software company that serves most of the world’s top banks, has confirmed it’s investigating a data breach after a hacker claimed a compromise of the company’s internal file-transfer platform. In a statement given to TechCrunch, Finastra Read More …
U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Wednesday against five alleged members of Scattered Spider, a loose-knit community of hackers suspected of breaking into dozens of U.S. companies to steal confidential information and cryptocurrency. Martin Estrada, the U.S. Attorney in Los Read More …
Unit 42 researchers have observed an increase in BlackSuit ransomware activity beginning in March 2024 that suggests a ramp up of operations. This threat emerged as a rebrand of Royal ransomware, which occurred in May 2023. Unit 42 tracks the Read More …
A cybersecurity threat known as a sitting duck exploit is thought to be putting more than one million websites at risk of attack, according to threat intelligence analysts. The fact that the attack methodology remains underreported could be the reason Read More …