WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture
Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 5
Cyber-crime
Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova
OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B
Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 14
US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts
Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them
Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 12
Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks
Admits it's not sure some clicks came from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten
Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 11
Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices
Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons
Security26 Jun 2024 | 23
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant
Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing
CSO26 Jun 2024 | 19
Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K
Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party
Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 2
Crypto scammers circle back, pose as lawyers, steal an extra $10M in truly devious plan
Business is more lucrative than you might think
Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 18
CISA says crooks used Ivanti bugs to snoop around high-risk chemical facilities
Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness
Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 3
UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin's ransomware shakedowns
Attacking the NHS is a very bad move
Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 26
Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK
More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week
Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 2
Levi's and more affected in pants-dropping week of data breaches
A busy few days for security teams
Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 5
Admin took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error
Who, me? Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard?
Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 52
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew
'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month
Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 8
Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider
At least they didn’t get paid their $50M ransom demand
Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 11
Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients' records in cyber-attack
Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 4
Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident'
Downtime set to crash into next week
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 13
Russia's cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy
Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 9
Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals
Interview Cybercriminals claim they used a zero-day to breach pathology provider’s systems
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 25
Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into accounts using creds swiped from other DBs
Railco goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards users about spilled card details and more
Cyber-crime19 Jun 2024 | 12
Popular
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately
Scripts turn malicious, infects webpages after mysterious CDN swallows domain
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant
Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control'
Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man
Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia …
Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs
Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone
Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices
Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons
Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050
Experts say 'circular economy strategies' could keep demand at 2015 levels
Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection
Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes
Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now
OpenAI to pull plug on 'unsupported' nations – cough, China – from July 9
It’s not entirely clear what actions the ChatGPT maker plans to take, if any
STORIES
Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech
Two decades in the clink would be quite an education
Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 | 14
Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale
Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now
Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |
NHS boss says Scottish trust wouldn't give cyberattackers what they wanted
CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked
Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 | 13
Suspected bosses of $430M dark-web Empire Market charged in US
Cybercrime super-souk's Dopenugget and Zero Angel may face life behind bars if convicted
Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 1
Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack
Four years on and it's still paying for what California attorney general calls 'unacceptable' practice
Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 3
Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader
Spanish plod make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy
Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 21
Nigerian faces up to 102 years in the slammer for $1.5M phishing scam
Crook and his alleged co-conspirators said to have used Discord to coordinate
Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 9
Ukraine busts SIM farms targeting soldiers with spyware
Russia recruits local residents to support battlefield goals
Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 8
Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin
28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe
Malware Month13 Jun 2024 | 13
Crooks crack customer info at tracking device vendor Tile, issue 'extortion' demands
Who tracks the trackers?
Cyber-crime13 Jun 2024 | 5
Ransomware crew may have exploited Windows make-me-admin bug as a zero-day
Symantec suggests Black Basta crew beat Microsoft to the patch
Malware Month12 Jun 2024 | 2
China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought
Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months
Cyber-crime12 Jun 2024 | 13
Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace
Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in
Cyber-crime11 Jun 2024 | 1
UK and Canada's data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach
Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz
Cyber-crime11 Jun 2024 | 14
Christie's confirms RansomHub crooks stole data on 45K clients
A far cry from the half-million claim that crims originally boasted
Cyber-crime10 Jun 2024 |
Two cuffed over suspected smishing campaign using 'text message blaster'
Thousands of dodgy SMSes bypassed network filters in UK-first case, it is claimed
Cyber-crime10 Jun 2024 | 23
Akira: Perhaps the next big thing in ransomware, says Tidal threat intelligence chief
Interview Scott Small tells us gang's 'intent and capability' should get the attention of CSOs
Malware Month09 Jun 2024 | 3
New York Times source code leaks online via 4chan
Updated Breaking breaking-news news
Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 43
Frontier Communications: 750k people's data stolen in April attack on systems
Company says just names and SSNs affected, watering down RansomHub’s claims
Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 8
Cisco fixes WebEx flaw that allowed government, military meetings to be spied on
Researchers were able to glean data from 10,000 meetings held by top Dutch gov officials
Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 12
Russian hacktivists vow mass attacks against EU elections
But do they get to wear 'I DDoSed' stickers?
Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 56
FBI encourages LockBit victims to step right up for free decryption keys
The bad news? Gang wasn't deleting victim data after payments
Malware Month06 Jun 2024 | 6
Uncle Sam seeks to claw back $5M+ stolen from trade union through spoofed email
Funds are currently seized after being sent to offshore accounts
Cyber-crime06 Jun 2024 | 8
TikTok confirms CNN, other high-profile accounts hijacked via zero-day vulnerability
Beware of zero-click malware sliding into your DMs
Cyber-crime05 Jun 2024 | 13
What is RansomHub? Looks like a Knight ransomware reboot
Malware code potentially sold off, tweaked, back at it infecting victims
Malware Month05 Jun 2024 | 1
4 cuffed following probe into holiday scheme for cybercrooks
Public officials allegedly bribed to allow extradition-dodging travel
Cyber-crime05 Jun 2024 | 6
London hospitals left in critical condition after ransomware attack
Pathology lab provider targeted, affecting blood transfusions and surgeries
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 77
Christie's stolen data sold to highest bidder rather than leaked, RansomHub claims
Experts say auctioning the auctioneer’s data is unlikely to have been genuinely successful
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 9
Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak
Analysis Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18
Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'
Turns out opting out actually works?
Cyber-crime03 Jun 2024 | 31
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers
Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage
Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 20
Cyber cops plead for info on elusive Emotet mastermind
Follows arrests and takedowns of recent days
Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 4
New Nork-ish cyberespionage outfit uncovered after three years
Sector-agnostic group is after your data, wherever you are
Cyber-crime31 May 2024 |
FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks
Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn't like that one bit
Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 1
US Treasury says NFTs 'highly susceptible' to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals
Narco kingpins aren't coming for your apes, but internet con artists still are
Cyber-crime30 May 2024 | 13
Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains
Operation Endgame just beginning: 'Stay tuned,' says Europol
Malware Month30 May 2024 |
Cybercriminals raid BBC pension database, steal records of over 25,000 people
This just in: We lost your personal info, but here's 2 years' worth of Experian
Cyber-crime30 May 2024 | 19
Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever'
DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs
Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 12
Miscreants claim they've snatched 560M people's info from Ticketmaster
Updated All that data allegedly going for a song on revived BreachForums
Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 26
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive
Updated Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder
Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 51
North Korea building cash reserves using ransomware, video games
Microsoft says Kim’s hermit nation is pivoting to latest tools as it evolves in cyberspace
Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 2
2.8M US folks learn their personal info was swiped months ago in Sav-Rx IT heist
Theft happened in October, only now are details coming to light
Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 8
BreachForums returns just weeks after FBI-led takedown
Website whack-a-mole getting worse
Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 8
Auction house Christie’s confirms criminals stole some client data
Centuries-old institution dodges questions on how it happened as ransomware gang claims credit
Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 3
Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime
Opinion In evolving smarter security, open source is the missing link
Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 3
Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine
FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment
Cyber-crime24 May 2024 | 46
Suspected supply chain attack backdoors courtroom recording software
An open and shut case, but the perps remain at large – whoever they are
Cyber-crime24 May 2024 | 2
Here's yet more ransomware using BitLocker against Microsoft's own users
Updated ShrinkLocker throws steel and vaccine makers into the hurt locker
Malware Month23 May 2024 | 4
Casino cyberattacks put a bullseye on Scattered Spider – and the FBI is closing in
Interview Mandiant CTO chats to The Reg about the looming fate of this ransomware crew
Cyber-crime23 May 2024 | 11
Canada's London Drugs confirms ransomware attack after LockBit demands $25M
Pharmacy says it's 'unwilling and unable to pay ransom'
Cyber-crime22 May 2024 | 3
LockBit dethroned as leading ransomware gang for first time post-takedown
Rivals ready to swoop in but drop in overall attacks illustrates LockBit’s influence
Cyber-crime22 May 2024 | 6
Google takes shots at Microsoft for shoddy security record with enterprise apps
Updated Also, feds who switch to Google Workspace for 3 years get an extra year for free
Cyber-crime20 May 2024 | 11
British Library's candid ransomware comms driven by 'emotional intelligence'
CyberUK It quickly realized ‘dry’ progress updates weren’t cutting it
Cyber-crime20 May 2024 | 16
How two brothers allegedly swiped $25M in a 12-second Ethereum heist
Feds scoff at blockchain integrity while software bug said to have been at heart of the matter
Cyber-crime18 May 2024 | 50
Aussie cops probe MediSecure's 'large-scale ransomware data breach'
Throw another healthcare biz on the barby, mate
Cyber-crime17 May 2024 | 13
First LockBit, now BreachForums: Are cops winning the war or just a few battles?
TLDR: Peace in our time is really really hard
Cyber-crime17 May 2024 | 12
Crims abusing Microsoft Quick Assist to deploy Black Basta ransomware
Spoiler alert: it's not really IT support controlling your device
Cyber-crime16 May 2024 | 12
Stifling Beijing in cyberspace is now British intelligence’s number-one mission
CyberUK Annual conference of cyber intel unit shows UK's alarm over China blaring louder than ever
Cyber-crime16 May 2024 | 22
FBI takes down BreachForums ransomware website and Telegram channel
No more illicit gains, for a while at least
Security15 May 2024 | 4
Crook brags about US Army and $75B defense biz pwnage
More government data allegedly stolen by prolific criminals
Cyber-crime15 May 2024 | 7
FCC names and shames Royal Tiger AI robocall crew
Agency is on the lookout for a Prince among men
Cyber-crime14 May 2024 | 5
Cybersec chiefs team up with insurers to say 'no' to ransomware bullies
Guidebook aims to undermine the criminal business model
Cyber-crime14 May 2024 | 7
Google, Apple gear to raise tracking tag stalker alarm
After years of people being victimized, it's about time
Personal Tech14 May 2024 | 28
'Cyberattack' shutters Christie's website days before $840M art mega-auction
Going once, going twice, going offline
Cyber-crime13 May 2024 | 6
Uncle Sam urges action after Black Basta ransomware infects Ascension
Emergency ambulances diverted while techies restore systems
Cyber-crime13 May 2024 | 5
Europol confirms incident following alleged auction of staff data
Intelligence-sharing platform remains down for maintenance
Cyber-crime13 May 2024 | 4
Ransomware negotiator weighs in on the extortion payment debate with El Reg
Interview As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs
Cyber-crime12 May 2024 | 43
Cybercriminals hit jackpot as 500k+ Ohio Lottery lovers lose out on their personal data
Not a lotto luck for these powerball hunters
Cyber-crime10 May 2024 | 9
Microsoft's Brad Smith summoned by Homeland Security committee over 'cascade' of infosec failures
Major intrusions by both China and Russia leave a lot to be answered for
Cyber-crime10 May 2024 | 24
US faith-based healthcare org Ascension says 'cybersecurity event' disrupted clinical ops
Sources claim ransomware is to blame
Cyber-crime09 May 2024 | 30
Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web
IT giant tries to downplay leak as just names, addresses, info about kit
Cyber-crime09 May 2024 | 35
America's enemies targeting US critical infrastructure should be 'wake-up call'
RSAC Having China, Russia, and Iran routinely rummaging around is cause for concern, says ex-NSA man
Spotlight on RSA09 May 2024 | 8
What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores
BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China
Cyber-crime08 May 2024 | 10
One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800K people
Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool
Spotlight on RSA08 May 2024 | 2
UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack
China vehemently denies involvement
Cyber-crime08 May 2024 | 50
Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight
Interview On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
Malware Month08 May 2024 | 24
America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss
RSAC Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc
Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 25
Cops finally unmask 'LockBit kingpin' after two-month tease
Updated Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev's $10M question is answered at last
Cyber-crime07 May 2024 | 21
Ransomware crooks now SIM swap executives' kids to pressure their parents
RSAC Extortionists turning to 'psychological attacks', Mandiant CTO says
Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 20
Fed-run LockBit site back from the dead and vows to really spill the beans on gang
Updated After very boring first reveal, this could be the real deal
Spotlight on RSA06 May 2024 | 8
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