Security News

Probe finds US Coast Guard has left maritime cybersecurity adrift
2025-02-11 23:44

Numerous systemic vulnerabilities could scuttle $5.4T industry Despite the escalating cyber threats targeting America's maritime transportation system, the US Coast Guard still lacks a...

UK, US, Oz blast holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider Zservers
2025-02-11 18:26

UK foreign secretary says Putin is running a 'corrupt mafia state' One of the bulletproof hosting (BPH) providers used by the LockBit ransomware operation has been hit with sanctions in the US,...

US indicts 8Base ransomware operators for Phobos encryption attacks
2025-02-11 15:42

The U.S. Justice Department announced the names of two Phobos ransomware affiliates arrested yesterday in Thailand, charging them on 11 counts due to their involvement in more than a thousand...

US sanctions LockBit ransomware’s bulletproof hosting provider
2025-02-11 14:24

​The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom have sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) services provider, for supplying essential attack infrastructure for the...

All your 8Base are belong to us: Ransomware crew busted in global sting
2025-02-10 22:15

Dark web site seized, four cuffed in Thailand An international police operation spanning the US, Europe, and Asia has shuttered the 8Base ransomware crew's dark web presence and resulted in the...

Hacker pleads guilty to SIM swap attack on US SEC X account
2025-02-10 18:46

Today, an Alabama man pleaded guilty to hijacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) account on X in a January 2024 SIM swapping attack. [...]

Cyberattack disrupts Lee newspapers' operations across the US
2025-02-10 16:44

Lee Enterprises, one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, says a cyberattack that hit its systems caused an outage last week and impacted its operations. [...]

US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'
2025-02-10 13:05

Publications across 25 states either producing smaller issues or very delayed ones US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is one week into tackling a nondescript "cybersecurity event," saying the...

Judge says US Treasury ‘more vulnerable to hacking’ since Trump let the DOGE out
2025-02-10 06:32

Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men Trump administration policies that allowed Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to access systems and data at the...

US health system notifies 882,000 patients of August 2023 breach
2025-02-07 16:44

Hospital Sisters Health System notified over 882,000 patients that an August 2023 cyberattack led to a data breach that exposed their personal and health information. [...]