Security News > 2023 > October
The Ragnar Locker ransomware operation's Tor negotiation and data leak sites were seized Thursday morning as part of an international law enforcement operation. A Europol spokesperson has confirmed the seizure message is legitimate as part of an ongoing action targeting the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang and that a press release will be published tomorrow.
While still a chief petty officer, Marquis Hooper accessed a database containing millions of records and over the course of five months sold details of more than 9,000 people online. Prosecutors said the total sum generated by Hooper and his wife, Natasha Chalk, co-defendant in the case and former Navy reservist, reached the equivalent of $160,000 in Bitcoin.
An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in the oil and gas sector and defense industry as...
Highlighting the potential danger from human risk, the research cited a survey of 1,310 workers which revealed a whopping 69 percent admitted to having bypassed their own organisations' cybersecurity guidance in the past 12 months. In order to equip cyber security professionals with the knowledge and tools they need to combat these relentless and fast-evolving internal cyber threats, the SANS Institute, a trusted resource for cybersecurity training, certifications and research, is celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October.
Meta announced today that it's rolling out support for multiple WhatsApp accounts on the same device, allowing users to switch between them without needing to log out. "Today, we're introducing the ability to have two WhatsApp accounts logged in at the same time," the company said on Thursday.
The time between a vulnerability being discovered and hackers exploiting it is narrower than ever – just 12 days. So it makes sense that organizations are starting to recognize the importance of...
Google has announced an update to its Play Protect with support for real-time scanning at the code level to tackle novel malicious apps prior to downloading and installing them on Android devices....
Japanese electronics manufacturer Casio disclosed a data breach impacting customers from 149 countries after hackers gained to the servers of its ClassPad education platform. Casio detected the incident on Wednesday, October 11, following the failure of a ClassPad database within the company's development environment.
Joe Sullivan, Uber's CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach, of withholding information about the 2016 incident from the FTC even as its investigators were scrutinizing the company's data security and privacy practices.
Google is enhancing Google Play Protect's real-time scanning to include code-level scanning, to keep Android devices safe from malicious and unwanted apps, especially those downloaded from outside of the Google Play app store - whether from third-party app stores or other sources. Google Play Protect, introduced by Google in 2017, is a security suite for Android devices that protects users' devices and data from malicious apps.