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Vans sneaker maker VF Corp said on Thursday the cyber incident that hit the company in December led to a breach of personal data of about 35.5 million consumers, and added that it does not expect a material impact to Read More …
New research from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has laid bare the mental and physical toll that cybersecurity workers face as a result of their work. In a number of interviews with individuals who had been at the forefront Read More …
Carnegie Mellon University informed about 7,300 people that their personal information may have been compromised in an August cyberattack that was quietly investigated by law enforcement and the university. The breach impacting one of the nation’s top schools for computing Read More …
Hackers from the group Blackjack, purportedly affiliated with Ukraine’s SBU security service, have breached a Russian state enterprise involved in construction work for the Russian military, and downloaded over 1.2 TB of data, a Ukrainian law enforcement source told NV Read More …
Proofpoint researchers identified the return of TA866 to email threat campaign data, after a nine-month absence. On January 11, 2024, Proofpoint blocked a large volume campaign consisting of several thousand emails targeting North America. Invoice-themed emails had attached PDFs with Read More …
A group of hackers has been secretly building a botnet of Android TV and eCos set-top boxes, and then monetizing the access to earn masses of wealth, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity experts from Qianxin Xlabs dubbed the operation “Bigpanzi”, and Read More …
For the first time, a ransomware gang has reported one of its victims to the authorities. This has never happened before and shows the continuing evolution of their business models to maintain pressure on the victim organisations. With this new Read More …
JPMorgan Chase’s banking systems are attacked by hackers 45 billion a day, double what it saw a year earlier. The nation’s largest bank spends $15 billion a year on technology, given the risk of a data breach and the potentially Read More …
The researchers that discovered the active exploitation are warning that these attacks are now very widespread. The fact that there are no patches available and users were asked to apply a workaround and monitor their network traffic for suspicious activity, Read More …
Saturday witnessed a cyberattack on the Spanish city of Calvià in Majorca, with hackers now demanding 10 million euros to be paid to restore functionality to integral systems. The Calvià City Council website has been offering updates on the situation, Read More …