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Data loss, Threats & Malware

Finance orgs have 30 days to confess cyber sins under incoming FTC rules

October 31, 2023

Via: The Register

The 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 […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

International Authorities Take Down Ragnar Locker Ransomware Group

October 23, 2023

Via: SecureWorld

Law 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 […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

Cyberattacks against law enforcement are on the rise

July 7, 2022

Via: Help Net Security

Resecurity, 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 […]


Mobile, Mobile security

Spain’s Spy Chief Sacked Over Phone Hacking Scandal

May 10, 2022

Via: Security Week

Paz 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 […]


Privacy protection, Security

Senators: CIA Has Secret Program That Collects American Data

February 11, 2022

Via: Security Week

Sens. 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 […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

Former Employee Accused of Being Behind Ubiquiti Hack

December 2, 2021

Via: Security Week

The 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, […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

Dutch Police Arrest Two Hackers Tied to “Fraud Family” Cybercrime Ring

July 23, 2021

Via: The Hacker News

Law 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

Macron Among 14 Heads of States on Potential Spyware List

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 […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

16 Cybercriminals Behind Mekotio and Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Arrested in Spain

July 14, 2021

Via: The Hacker News

Spanish 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 […]


Cyber warfare, Cyber-crime

French Tech Firm Charged Over Libya Cyber-Spying

July 2, 2021

Via: Security Week

Amesys, 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 […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

US Teen ‘Mastermind’ in Epic Twitter Hack Sentenced to Prison

March 17, 2021

Via: Security Week

A 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 […]


Mobile, Privacy protection

Bill Aimed at Ending ‘Warrant-Proof’ Encryption Introduced in House

July 31, 2020

Via: Security Week

Referred 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, […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

European Agencies Hack Criminal Encrochat Messaging System

July 7, 2020

Via: Hot for Security

A 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. […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Data From Hundreds of Law Enforcement Organizations Leaked Online

June 22, 2020

Via: Security Week

The 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

Websites of U.S. Presidential Candidates Pose Security, Privacy Risks

March 27, 2020

Via: Security Week

The 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 […]


Cyber-crime

European law enforcement agencies arrested 6 individuals involved in $27M cryptocurrency theft

June 27, 2019

Via: Security Affairs

An 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 […]


Network security

EU adopts EU Law Enforcement Emergency Response Protocol for massive cyberattacks

March 19, 2019

Via: Security Affairs

Europol 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 […]


Network security

Law enforcement worldwide hunting users of DDoS-for-Hire services

January 30, 2019

Via: Security Affairs

Europol 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 […]


Privacy protection

Apple’s new tool will make it easier for law enforcement to request data

September 10, 2018

Via: Naked Security

Apple 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 […]


Identity theft

Cyber criminals targeting healthcare orgs’ FTP servers

March 27, 2017

Via: Help Net Security

FBI’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 […]