Authorities Ramp Up Efforts to Capture the Mastermind Behind Emotet
Jun 03, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cybercrime
Law enforcement authorities behind Operation Endgame are seeking information related to an individual who goes by the name Odd and is allegedly the mastermind behind...
Germany’s main opposition party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack
Germany’s leading opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), was hit by a large-scale cyberattack over the weekend. The German Interior Ministry (BMI) said in a statement...
Live Nation confirms Ticketmaster breach after hackers hawk stolen info of 560 million
Entertainment conglomerate Live Nation confirmed that it is dealing with a data breach in documents filed with regulators late on Friday afternoon. In an 8-K filing, Live...
Cloud company Snowflake denies that reported breach originated with its products
The cloud storage provider Snowflake is denying that its products were to blame for an apparent data breach impacting the company’s clients, including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. ...
HHS reverses course, allows Change Healthcare to file breach notifications for others
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) changed course on Friday and announced that it will allow Change Healthcare to file breach notifications on behalf of the...
UnitedHealth leaders ‘should be held responsible’ for installing inexperienced CISO, senator says
Sen. Ron Wyden unloaded on UnitedHealth Group (UHG) in a letter to regulators on Thursday, calling for the company’s leaders to “be held responsible” for negligence connected to...
Cyberattacks targeting US and allies having ‘strategically consequential effects’
TALLINN, Estonia — Even cyberattacks below the threshold of starting an armed conflict are having “strategically consequential effects on the power of the United States, its allies, and...
A top FTC official on the consumer privacy message the agency is sending to...
Under Chair Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been far more aggressive in its pursuit of data privacy cases, including unprecedented enforcements against data brokers who...
Europol Shuts Down 100+ Servers Linked to IcedID, TrickBot, and Other Malware
May 30, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Crime
Europol on Thursday said it shut down the infrastructure associated with several malware loader operations such as IcedID, SystemBC, PikaBot, SmokeLoader, Bumblebee, and TrickBot...
Negotiations over new NATO cyber center still ongoing weeks from planned launch
TALLINN, Estonia — Negotiations about NATO’s new cyber center are ongoing just weeks away from the Washington summit where allies are expected to announce an agreement establishing it,...
