EU failure to rein in spyware reflects lack of political will, parliamentarian says
A leading member of the European Parliament on Wednesday condemned Europe’s governing bodies for not doing more to address rampant spyware abuses across the continent. Parliamentarian Sophie...
US offers $5 million for info on North Korean IT workers involved in job...
Editor's note: Story updated 12:35 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Eastern U.S. time with details from Department of Justice and FBI announcements. The U.S. is offering a reward...
Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft’s Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks
May 16, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Incident Response
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under the name Storm-1811 abusing the client management tool Quick Assist...
GCHQ to protect UK election candidates’ phones from cyberattacks
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) launched a new service on Wednesday to prevent cyberattacks targeting the mobile phones of high-risk individuals. The...
Feds seize BreachForums platform, Telegram page
The website and Telegram page for the notorious BreachForums platform, a popular bazaar for stolen data and cybercriminal tools, appears to have been seized. On Wednesday morning,...
Ongoing Campaign Bombards Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing social engineering campaign that bombards enterprises with spam emails with the goal of obtaining initial access to their environments for follow-on exploitation.
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UK ‘increasingly concerned’ about Russian intelligence links to hacktivists
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — British officials are “increasingly concerned about growing links between the Russian intelligence services and proxy groups to conduct cyberattacks,” a senior intelligence chief warned...
Tornado Cash co-founder convicted of laundering $1.2 billion by Dutch court
A Dutch court on Tuesday found the cofounder of the anonymizing cryptocurrency service Tornado Cash guilty of money laundering, sentencing him to five years and four months in...
Is this Iowa congressman the next House Republican point man on cyber?
As House Republicans hunt for new members who can steer their work on cyber issues in the wake of a high-profile departure, a freshman lawmaker is stepping up...
Black Basta Ransomware Strikes 500+ Entities Across North America, Europe, and Australia
The Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has targeted more than 500 private industry and critical infrastructure entities in North America, Europe, and Australia since its emergence in April 2022.
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