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Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when he was let go
A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer's systems – and he's now facing a potential ten years behind bars.…
Uncle Sam charges alleged Garantex admins after crypto-exchange web seizures
The Feds today revealed more details about the US Secret Service-led Garantex takedown, a day after seizing websites and freezing assets belonging to the Russian cryptocurrency exchange in coordination with German and Finnish law enforcement agencies.…
Alleged cyber scalpers Swiftly cuffed over $635K Taylor ticket heist
Police have made two arrests in their quest to start a cybercrime crew's prison eras, alleging the pair stole hundreds of Taylor Swift tickets and sold them for huge profit. …
Like whitebox servers, rent-a-crew crime 'affiliates' have commoditized ransomware
Interview There's a handful of cybercriminal gangs that Jason Baker, a ransomware negotiator with GuidePoint Security, regularly gets called in to respond to these days, and a year ago only one of these crews — Akira — was on threat hunters' radars and infecting organizations with the same ferocity as it is today.…
The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids
Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a new variant of the remote-controllable Badbox malware, and as many as a million infected Android devices running it to form a massive botnet.…
International cops seize ransomware crooks' favorite Russian crypto exchange
A coalition of international law enforcement has shut down Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, a favorite of now-defunct ransomware crew Conti and others criminals for money laundering.…
Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens
The US government's Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is considering monitoring not just the social media posts of non-citizens coming into the country, but also all those already in America going through an immigration or citizenship process.…
Toronto Zoo ransomware crooks snatch decades of visitor data
Toronto Zoo's final update on its January 2024 cyberattack arrived this week, revealing that visitor data going back to 2000 had been compromised.…
Up to $75M needed to address rural hospital cybersecurity
It will cost upward of $75 million to address the cybersecurity needs of rural US hospitals, Microsoft reckons, as mounting closures threaten the lives of Americans.…
Cybereason CEO leaves after months of boardroom blowups
Eric Gan is no longer CEO of AI security biz Cybereason after what appears to have been a protracted and unpleasant fight with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund and Liberty Strategic Capital.…
Feds name and charge alleged Silk Typhoon spies behind years of China-on-US attacks
US government agencies announced Wednesday criminal charges against alleged members of China's Silk Typhoon gang, plus internet domain seizures linked to a long-term Chinese espionage campaign that saw Beijing hire miscreants to compromise US government agencies and other major orgs.…
Ex-NSA grandee says Trump's staff cuts will 'devastate' America's national security
Video Looming staffing cuts to America's security and intelligence agencies, if carried out, would "have a devastating effect on cybersecurity and our national security," former NSA bigwig Rob Joyce has told House representatives.…
China's Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets
Silk Typhoon, the Chinese government crew believed to be behind the December US Treasury intrusions, has been abusing stolen API keys and cloud credentials in ongoing attacks targeting IT companies and state and local government agencies since late 2024, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…
Apple takes UK government to court over 'backdoor' order
Apple has reportedly filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) contesting the UK government's order that it must forcibly break the encryption of iCloud data.…
Leeds United kick card swipers into Row Z after 5-day cyberattack
English football club Leeds United says cyber criminals targeted its retail website during a five-day assault in February and stole the card details of "a small number of customers." …
Qilin ransomware gang claims attacks on cancer clinic, OB-GYN facility
Qilin – the "no regrets" ransomware crew wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry – just claimed responsibility for fresh attacks on a cancer treatment clinic in Japan and a women's healthcare facility in the US.…
How prevention is better than cure
Sponsored Post Every organization is vulnerable to cyber threats, and endpoint devices are a common target for cyber criminals.…
Ransomware thugs threaten Tata Technologies with leak if demands not met
A subsidiary of Indian multinational Tata has allegedly fallen victim to the notorious ransomware gang Hunters International.…
VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild
Broadcom today pushed out patches for three VMware hypervisor-hijacking bugs, including one rated critical, that have already been found and exploited by criminals.…
How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even before they open their first app.…