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.
TikTok executives were unable to answer Liberal senator and chair of the committee James Paterson when he questioned them on how many times Australian user data had been accessed by TikTok staff in China, but the executives admitted it had happened.
Diplomats in Ukraine shopping for used cars have been targeted with a listing for a "very good condition, low-fuel consumption" 2011 BMW 5 Series. In reality, the listing was designed to push Russian-built malware onto diplomats' systems, security researchers warned.
Microsoft released the largest set of patches of the year - software updates for 132 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days. Microsoft rated nine of the flaws as having critical severity, 121 as being important and eight as being linked to critical remote code execution vulnerabilities.
The growing list of MOVEit cyberattack victims has grown. Sixty-two clients of Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young now appear on the Clop ransomware group's data leak site. A spokesperson for Ernst & Young confirmed that a "limited" attack on the company's systems had occurred.
Johns Hopkins University and its Johns Hopkins Health System are facing at least two proposed federal class action lawsuits filed in recent days following the institution's disclosure that it was among victims of the recent spate of hacks involving MOVEit file transfer software.
A new malware campaign powered with multistage attack methodology is targeting businesses in the LATAM region using specially crafted modules. The newly identified Trojan, dubbed Toitoin, follows a six-stage attack plan in which each stage is custom-designed to carry out malicious activities.
Given the sustained onslaught of cyberattacks against the healthcare industry, organizations can help protect all enterprises simply by sharing advance information, said Steve Hunter, vice president of marketing and development at Health-ISAC. Ensuring anonymity helps users share more freely.
Spanish law enforcement authorities said they have brought down a cybercriminal ring that deployed a range of hacking techniques to target banking customers. The group operators extorted 100,000 euros and offered crime as a service to other criminals, the police said.
The threat actor behind the remote access Trojan called RomCom and other pro-Russian groups are targeting Ukrainian agencies and allies ahead of the NATO Summit this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, using weaponized Microsoft documents and typosquatting techniques to deliver the malware.
Information on up to 11 million patients of hospital chain HCA Healthcare is up for sale on a dark web forum. HCA Healthcare on Monday confirmed an incident involving data theft from an external location used to automate the formatting of email messages but said it is still investigating.
The European Commission has officially adopted the EU-U.S. Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which will enable the free flow of commercial data between Europe and the United States. The framework will go into effect in December and will be subject to yearly review by the European Commission.
A security researcher discovered a Bangladesh government web portal that exposed the personal information of about 50 million citizens, including their birth registration records, phone numbers and national identity numbers. His efforts to notify the government of the security flaw went unanswered.
Francisco Partners plans to split Forcepoint's government and commercial security practices, selling the former to TPG for $2.45 billion. The deal represents an impressive return on investment for Francisco Partners, which bought all of Forcepoint from Raytheon in January 2021 for just $1.1 billion.
Traditional licensing models that lock organizations into fixed solutions or time periods are no longer ideal. Organizations need to consider usage-based licensing approaches that offer flexibility to deploy whatever solutions are required, wherever they are needed, for whatever length of time.
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