The FBI, US DOJ, Secret Service, Europol, and others seize ransomware gang Hive's site and decryption keys; the FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022
using lawful means, we hacked the hackers.” Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley : Since infiltrating the network the FBI in July it was able to help 1,300 victims with decryption keys, pre...
A survey of 8,000 young people in nine European countries finds 34% say they have pirated content, 27% have trolled someone, 22% have incited violence, and more
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The CISA announces its first international Attaché Office, which it plans to open in London later in July 2022, for collaboration between CISA and UK officials
Martin Matishak / The Record :
The UK government hires ad agency M&C Saatchi to run a publicity campaign criticizing Meta's plans to make Messenger end-to-end encrypted by default
only because the UK gov would be happy to let competitors throw Facebook under the bus. But not the long term. Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : If somehow it looked like we were ...
Researchers detail SysJoker, backdoor malware targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux, that remained undetected by virtually all malware scanning engines
Researchers detail SysJoker, backdoor malware targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux, that remained undetected by virtually all malware scanning engines
The UK's NCSC warns over 4,000 online stores that their customers' information is being compromised by attacks exploiting unpatched Magecart software
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
McAfee researchers detail a Chinese cyberespionage campaign targeting at least 23 telcos in the US, Europe, and SE Asia to steal data, including for 5G tech
Cybersecurity researchers at McAfee detail an ongoing cyber espionage campaign which is targeting telecoms companies around the world.
GSMA says Mobile World Congress Barcelona will go ahead in June, with plans for up to 50,000 in-person attendees
Exceptional times call for exceptional safety measures. Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : MWC Barcelona Conference Planning for 50,000 Attendees, Reveals Health and Safet...
Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside
Europol and FBI among agencies that have taken control of the botnet infrastructure used by cyber criminals behind some of the most prolific malware and ransomware attacks.
UK's ICO reduces British Airways fine for a data breach, in which the personal details of more than 400,000 customers were leaked, from ~£184M to £20M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
German media: a patient died after ransomware attack forced a hospital to send them elsewhere; hackers backed down after police told them target was a hospital
A person in a life-threatening condition passed away after being forced to go to a more distant hospital due to a ransomware attack.
Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools
GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal — Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …
Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round
Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round
Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
Trustwave: ransomware attacks have quadrupled YoY in 2019 and have overtaken credit card theft as the most common form of cybercrime
Danny Palmer / ZDNet :
UK government proposes new IoT rules: firms must tell consumers how long security updates will be provided, ship individual devices with unique passwords, more
Proposed laws from the UK for Internet of Things security and suggests vendors will need to follow new rules to be considered secure.
Report: betting companies had access to a UK Department for Education database with records of 28M children, after a third-party gave access without permission
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