How Will Cyber Threats Impact the Beijing Winter Olympics?
While the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics were hardly a financial success (estimated by some to have cost $30 billion), there was one area in which it excelled: cybersecurity. How...
Attacker Sentenced in Multimillion-Dollar SIM Hijacking Scheme
Officials have sentenced a sixth member of international hacking group The Community in association with a multimillion-dollar SIM hijacking conspiracy, the Deptartment of Justice reports.Garrett Endicott, 22, was the...
HP Issues Firmware Updates for Printer Product Vulnerabilities
HP Inc. has issued firmware updates for multiple security vulnerabilities that affect more than 150 models of its multifunction printer (MFP) products.
These issues are not particularly easy to exploit. However,...
Legal Cases and Privacy Rulings Aim to Curtail Facial Biometrics
New York-based Clearview AI is paying the price for launching a facial-recognition service based on publicly posted pictures, as the company has become a focus of numerous privacy investigations...
Over 1,000 Individuals Arrested in Global Cybercrime-Fighting Operation
Law enforcement officials across 20 countries have arrested more than 1,000 individuals for various cyber-enabled financial crimes, including investment fraud, business email compromise (BEC) attacks, money laundering, and illegal...
Google Analyzes Methods Behind GCP Workload Attacks
Automated scanning, improved attack tools, and new ways to monetize compromises have turned cloud workloads and server instances into prime attack targets, Google Cloud stated in its inaugural "Threat...
IKEA Email Systems Targeted in Cyberattack
IKEA has warned its employees of an ongoing cyberattack that uses stolen reply-chain emails to target internal corporate inboxes.
In an email sent to IKEA employees and published by Bleeping...
MediaTek Chip Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Spy on Android Phones
Newly discovered vulnerabilities in MediaTek chips, embedded in 37% of smartphones and Internet of things (IoT) devices around the world, could have enabled attackers to eavesdrop on Android users...
Apple Sues NSO Group for Spyware Use
Apple is suing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber "to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users" and seek a...
New Android Spyware Variants Linked to Middle Eastern APT
New variants of Android spyware linked to a Middle Eastern advanced persistent threat (APT) group have been designed to be stealthier and more persistent, Sophos researchers reported today.This malware...
