Asokan is a U.K.-based senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. She previously worked with IDG and other publications, reporting on developments in technology, minority rights and education.
German intelligence is warning Iranian expatriates about a state-sponsored espionage campaign driven by individualized social engineering techniques. Iran's authoritarian regime has long surveilled its Western diaspora in campaigns that have included cyberespionage, assassinations and terrorism.
Security researchers uncovered a vulnerability in AMD chips that could allow hackers to trick a computer system into leaking data from its kernel. They named the flaw after the 2010 movie "Inception," since both the hacking technique and the film's plot involve planting false ideas into memory.
Data protection agencies in Finland and Norway on Tuesday imposed a temporary data transfer ban on Russian ride-hailing app Yango over concerns that Moscow could access sensitive data of Europeans. The ban comes before a Russian law granting the FSB access to taxi users' data takes effect Sept. 1.
The U.K. Electoral Commission suffered a "complex cyber-attack" in 2021, resulting in hackers accessing sensitive voter information. Commission CEO Shaun McNally said the attack resulted in hackers accessing copies of electoral register files that the agency uses for research purposes.
The Norwegian data regulator said it will start fining Facebook parent company Meta nearly $100,000 daily starting on Monday unless the social media giant stops showing users behavioral ads without their explicit consent. Privacy advocates call behavioral advertising a privacy violation.
Spanish police estimate that a group that mainly targeted ATMs of Spanish national banks using cloned payment cards had fraudulently pocketed nearly 196,000 euros. Authorities arrested three suspected members of the group Sunday in the Spanish coastal city of Valencia.
A targeted cyberattack against Britain's national healthcare system could lead to "second-order impacts" such as delays and cancellations, the U.K. government warns. The probably of such an attack occurring during the next two years could be as high as 1 in 4.
TikTok will know within a month the outcome of an Irish investigation into whether the short-form video app violated the privacy of underage users. The investigation stalled after other European national privacy enforcers raised objections to the Irish Data Protection Commission's draft decision.
Fears that cyber insurance coverage drives companies into paying ransomware demands more easily than not appear unfounded, concludes a British think tank study that also suggests insurers should do more to enact corporate discipline. Cyber insurance has been dogged by accusations of moral hazard.
A Russian intelligence hacking campaign actively targeted European diplomats and think tanks as part of an espionage operation that lasted nearly six months. One characteristic of APT29 is how it blends in malicious traffic with legitimate traffic in order to evade detection.
Dutch police arrested a suspected super user of Genesis Market, characterizing him as likely one of the busted criminal bazaar's top 10 most active buyers of stolen digital credentials and access to infected computers. The Dutch citizen will remain in custody and faces a growing list of charges.
Security researchers uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in a widely used radio communication system used by law enforcement and in critical infrastructure for data transmission that could allow remote decryption of cryptographically protected communications.
Russian hacking group Armageddon has upgraded its skills to simultaneously target several thousand Ukrainian government information systems. CERT-UA said the hackers infected Microsoft Office Word to generate 80 to 120 malicious documents within a compromised system to multiply the infection.
Russia is mulling a ban on iPhone use by government employees after a suspected American intelligence campaign exploited vulnerabilities in the device to spy on Russian staff. The ban is the latest in a slew of similar measures taken by Moscow against Western tech devices.
British prosecutors have accused two teenagers of several high-profile hacks while being part of the now-inactive, teenager-dominated Lapsus$ hacking group, clearing the way for their legal prosecution. The two suspects face charges related to blackmail, fraud and Computer Misuse Act violations.
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