October 31, 2023
Via: The RegisterThe US has approved mandatory data breach reporting requirements that impose a 30-day deadline for non-banking financial organizations to report incidents. The amendment to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Safeguards Rule, which aims to hold the US finance sector to […]
October 23, 2023
Via: SecureWorldLaw enforcement authorities from 11 countries last week conducted a coordinated takedown of the Ragnar Locker ransomware group, delivering a major blow to one of the most dangerous ransomware operations of recent years. The operation was led by Europol and […]
July 7, 2022
Via: Help Net SecurityResecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies worldwide, has registered an increase in malicious activity targeting law enforcement agencies at the beginning of Q2 2022. Threat actors are hacking email and other accounts which belong to law […]
May 10, 2022
Via: Security WeekPaz Esteban, the first woman to head Spain’s CNI intelligence agency, will be replaced, Defence Minister Margarita Robles whose ministry oversees the agency, told a news conference in confirming media reports. “Full security does not exist, we have a series […]
February 11, 2022
Via: Security WeekSens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico sent a letter to top intelligence officials calling for more details about the program to be declassified. Large parts of the letter, which was sent in April 2021 and […]
December 2, 2021
Via: Security WeekThe US-based communications and IoT device maker informed customers in January that it had suffered a data breach related to a cloud services provider. The company said at the time that it had no evidence of user data being compromised, […]
July 23, 2021
Via: The Hacker NewsLaw enforcement authorities in the Netherlands have arrested two alleged individuals belonging to a Dutch cybercriminal collective who were involved in developing, selling, and renting sophisticated phishing frameworks to other threat actors in what’s known as a “Fraud-as-a-Service” operation. The […]
Cyber-crime, Data loss, Malware, Threats & Malware
July 21, 2021
Via: Security Week“The unprecedented revelation … should send a chill down the spine of world leaders,” Amnesty’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard, said in a statement. Among potential targets found on a list of 50,000 phone numbers leaked to Amnesty and the Paris-based […]
July 14, 2021
Via: The Hacker NewsSpanish law enforcement agencies on Wednesday arrested 16 individuals belonging to a criminal network in connection with operating two banking trojans as part of a social engineering campaign targeting financial institutions in Europe. The arrests were made in Ribeira (A […]
July 2, 2021
Via: Security WeekAmesys, which is now owned by the Bull technology group, and its former chief, Philippe Vannier, were charged with complicity in acts of torture on June 18, the sources said. The inquiry was opened in 2013 after a complaint by […]
March 17, 2021
Via: Security WeekA Florida teenager accused of masterminding a Twitter hack of celebrity accounts in a crypto currency scheme has been sentenced to three years in juvenile prison in a plea agreement, officials said. State prosecutors announced the deal Tuesday in the […]
July 31, 2020
Via: Security WeekReferred to as the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, the bill aims to put a stop to criminals using “warrant-proof encryption and other technological advances” to hide their activity from authorities, Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), who introduced the bill, […]
July 7, 2020
Via: Hot for SecurityA joint operation headed by European and British law agencies dismantled the Encrochat messaging service, leading to the arrests of more than 100 people as well as the seizure of numerous weapons and ammunitions, drugs and millions in criminal funds. […]
June 22, 2020
Via: Security WeekThe files were made available by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS), a WikiLeaks-style organization that describes itself as a “transparency collective” whose goal is the “free transmission of data in the public interest.” The leak, dubbed BlueLeaks, includes information collected […]
Mobile, Privacy protection, Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities
March 27, 2020
Via: Security WeekThe security firm has monitored 11 websites during September and December 2019, and discovered that 81% of them execute code from third-party entities unmanaged by the candidate teams. Moreover, 6% of the domains executing on candidate websites were linked to […]
June 27, 2019
Via: Security AffairsAn operation conducted by European law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of 6 individuals involved in a €24 million ($27.2 million) cryptocurrency theft. The group of cyber criminals is composed of five men and one woman, they were arrested […]
March 19, 2019
Via: Security AffairsEuropol announced the adoption of a new protocol for law enforcement bodies in the EU and abroad to respond to major cyber cross-border cyberattacks. The protocol dubbed EU Law Enforcement Emergency Response Protocol aims at handling major attacks such as […]
January 30, 2019
Via: Security AffairsEuropol and law enforcement agencies worldwide are investigating DDoS-for-hire services and hunting users that paid them to carry out cyber attacks. In April 2018, an international operation conducted by the European law enforcement agencies led by the UK’s National Crime […]
September 10, 2018
Via: Naked SecurityApple is planning to create an online portal that will allow law enforcement officials around the world to request information about its users more easily. The company is seeking to streamline the way that it currently services information to government […]
March 27, 2017
Via: Help Net SecurityFBI’s Cyber Division has sent out another notification to healthcare organizations, alerting them to the danger of cyber criminals using their FTP servers for various malicious purposes. “The FBI is aware of criminal actors who are actively targeting File Transfer […]