Hackers stole ‘sensitive’ data from Taiwan telecom giant

Hackers stole “sensitive information” including military and government documents from Taiwan’s largest telecom company and sold it on the dark web, the island’s ministry of national defence has said. The confirmation of the democratic island’s latest major data leak followed Read More …

Ireland: Dept of Foreign Affairs investigating potential cybersecurity incident

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has said that it is investigating a potential cybersecurity incident involving its systems. The DFA said that it was notified by Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) yesterday about the possible security breach and Read More …

A ransomware gang claims to have hacked nearly 200GB of Epic Games internal data

A ransomware gang claims to have hacked Epic Games, saying it has nearly 200 gigabytes of internal data. Reportedly, the gang, which goes by the name Mogilevich, posted a message on its darknet leak site giving more information on its Read More …

China’s top anti-espionage authority warns of secret leaks through smart wearable devices

China’s top anti-espionage authority warned on Friday that various smart wearable devices may become “cyber spies” used by foreign intelligence agencies to carry out espionage activities, posing a threat to national security. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) said on Read More …

Sharp rise in cyber attacks at UK law firms as hackers eye sensitive data

The number of reported cyber attacks on UK law firms has increased 36 per cent over the past year. According to data by speciality reinsurance group Chaucer, there were 166 reported cyber breaches in 2021/22, this number jumped to 226 Read More …

Vibrator virus steals your personal information

I know that some of you are expecting a post similar to that about a toothbrush botnet, but this is not a hypothetical case. It actually happened. A Malwarebytes Premium customer started a thread on Reddit saying we had blocked Read More …

Toronto Public Library uncertain whose data stolen in October cyber attack

The Toronto Public Library needs more time to investigate whether cardholder, volunteer and donor data has been compromised during a serious cyberattack four months ago. In a final report to the board on the October 2023 security breach that the Read More …

UK: Council worker took tens of thousands of email addresses in massive data breach

A massive data breach by a worker at Stratford-on-Avon District Council saw tens of thousands of email addresses taken. The breach, which happened in November last year, was over a database of email addresses given by residents, the authority said. Read More …

China: Foreign cyber spies attack information systems of key departments, enterprises, stealing sensitive data

China’s Ministry of State Security warned on Friday that in recent years, national security agencies have discovered that foreign cyber spies have continuously attacked the information systems of key departments and enterprises within China, resulting in the theft of important Read More …

Spyware startup Variston is losing staff – some say it’s closing

In July 2022, someone sent Google a batch of malicious code that could be used to hack Chrome, Firefox, and PCs running Microsoft Defender. That code was part of an exploitation framework called Heliconia. And at the time, the exploits Read More …