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A hacking group believed to have ties to Iran has claimed responsibility for a massive cyberattack that exposed information linked to Australia’s $7 billion Land 400 defence program. The group, known as Cyber Toufan, says it accessed the data after Read More …
Francesco Nicodemo, a consultant who works with left-wing politicians in Italy, has gone public as the latest person targeted with Paragon spyware in the country. On Thursday, Nicodemo said in a Facebook post that for 10 months, he preferred not Read More …
Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world. EU officials said Read More …
A woman has been charged after around 100 patients had their medical records accessed in a data breach at NHS Lothian. The health board has written letters to patients affected by the breach, which they say was caused by one Read More …
Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers have discovered a new Windows-based malware family they’ve named Airstalk, which is available in both PowerShell and .NET variants. Unit 42 assess with medium confidence that a possible nation-state threat actor used this malware in Read More …
On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus. The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs, a Milan-based Read More …
Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users’ faces without consent to train its AI algorithms. Austria-based Noyb (None of Your Business) is targeting the US company and its executives, arguing that Read More …
n March 2025, Kaspersky detected a wave of infections that occurred when users clicked on personalized phishing links sent via email. No further action was required to initiate the infection; simply visiting the malicious website using Google Chrome or another Read More …
It has not yet clear how many passengers were affected by the data breach relating to boarding passes issued for flights during August, but RTÉ News understands it may be in the hundreds of thousands. In August 3.8 million passenger Read More …
More than 1 million patients have been affected by a data breach involving SimonMed Imaging, one of the country’s largest outpatient radiology and medical imaging providers. The breach came to light after a cyberattack compromised sensitive patient data, with reports indicating that Read More …
