11 arrested in Europol shutdown of illegal IPTV streaming networks
Europol and several law enforcement agencies across Europe coordinated to take down one of the largest illegal streaming networks and arrested nearly a dozen people tied to the...
INTERPOL Busts African Cybercrime: 1,006 Arrests, 134,089 Malicious Networks Dismantled
Nov 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Financial Fraud
An INTERPOL-led operation has led to the arrest of 1,006 suspects across 19 African countries and the takedown of 134,089 malicious infrastructures and...
India’s new cyber rules for telecoms come with big privacy risks, experts say
India’s telecommunications regulator has rolled out rules designed to protect the country’s critical infrastructure networks from cyberthreats, but experts warn that the new guidelines have inadequate safeguards for...
Drones repeatedly flown over US airbases in UK prompt hostile reconnaissance fears
Recent sightings of drones at night over airbases in the United Kingdom used by the United States Air Force (USAF) have prompted fears that unknown actors may be...
BIC, Starbucks, Morrisons continue recovery after Blue Yonder ransomware attack
Several major companies are in the process of recovering after a ransomware attack on a third-party technology provider impacted several systems ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Blue...
Russia-aligned RomCom hackers exploited Firefox and Windows zero-days
Russia-linked hackers exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities in Mozilla and Microsoft products to target victims in Europe and North America, researchers have found. RomCom, also tracked as Storm-0978,...
Canadian privacy regulators publish details of medical testing company’s data breach
A 2020 report detailing the hack of a Canadian medical testing company was released Monday after a court ruled it could be made public, ending a four-year battle...
African cybercrime crackdown culminates in 1,006 captured and cuffed
More than a thousand suspected cybercriminals were arrested across 19 African countries in recent months thanks to an operation helmed by Interpol and Afripol. Operation Serengeti ran...
Researchers Uncover Malware Using BYOVD to Bypass Antivirus Protections
Nov 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Windows Security
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new malicious campaign that leverages a technique called Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) to disarm security protections...
THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 18 – Nov 24)
Nov 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Critical Updates
We hear terms like "state-sponsored attacks" and "critical vulnerabilities" all the time, but what's really going on behind those words? This week's cybersecurity...
