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LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars
A LockBit ransomware kingpin has been sentenced to almost four years behind bars and ordered to pay more than CA$860,000 ($635,000, £500,000) in restitution to some of his victims by a Canadian court as he awaits extradition to the US.…
Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant
Google has enhanced its Safe Browsing service to enable real-time protection in Chrome for desktop, iOS, and soon Android against risky websites, without sending browsing history data to the ad biz.…
Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data
A French government department - responsible for registering and assisting unemployed people - is the latest victim of a mega data breach that compromised the information of up to 43 million citizens.…
International effort to disrupt cybercrime moves into operational phase
The Cybercrime Atlas, a massive undertaking that aims to disrupt cybercriminals across the globe, enters its operational phase in 2024, two years after organizers laid the groundwork at the RSA Conference.…
US to probe Change Healthcare's data protection standards as lawsuits mount
Change Healthcare is being investigated over the alleged 6 TB data theft by the ALPHV ransomware group as it continues recovery efforts.…
US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan
The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act – a law aimed at forcing TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app's US operations or face the prospect of a ban.…
Nissan to alert 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis about data loss incident
Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack on its systems – perhaps by the Akira ransomware gang.…
Poking holes in Google tech bagged bug hunters $10M
Google awarded $10 million to 632 bug hunters last year through its vulnerability reward programs.…
Cryptocurrency laundryman gets hung out to dry
The operator of the world's longest-running Bitcoin money laundering service faces a 50-year prison sentence after being found guilty in a US court.…
Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff
Microsoft Copilot for Security, a subscription AI security service, will be generally available on April 1, 2024, the company announced on Wednesday.…
Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months
Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months.…
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Researchers jimmy OpenAI's and Google's closed models
Boffins have managed to pry open closed AI services from OpenAI and Google with an attack that recovers an otherwise hidden portion of transformer models.…
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
Patch Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch drop has arrived, delivering a mere 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities – none listed as under active attack or already known to the public.…
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints
An ex-Meta veep has been sued by his former bosses for "brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct" – and by that, they mean he allegedly stole confidential documents to help him build and recruit colleagues for an AI cloud startup. …
Biden's budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B
US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve an extra $103 million in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, bringing CISA's total budget to $3 billion.…
JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers
Last week, we wrote about how security outfit Rapid7 threw JetBrains, the company behind the popular CI/CD platform TeamCity, under the bus over allegations of silent patching. Now, JetBrains has gone on the offensive.…
UK council yanks IT systems and phone lines offline following cyber ambush
Leicester City Council says IT systems and a number of its critical service phone lines will remain down until later this week at the earliest following a "cyber incident".…
French government sites disrupted by <i>très grande</i> DDoS
Several French government websites have been disrupted by a severe distributed denial of service attack.…
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain
The Biden administration and US lawmakers are turning up the pressure on UnitedHealth group to ease medical providers' pain after the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, by expediting payments to hospitals, physicians and pharmacists – among other tactics.…