Infosecurity News

  1. Americans Fined After Hacking for Foreign Government

    Former USIC and military personnel fined $1.68m for providing hacking services to a foreign government

  2. Software Supply Chain Attacks Surge 650% in a Year

    Threat actors are proactively injecting new bugs into upstream code

  3. Nearly a Third of Brits Say They Feel Unsafe Online

    Rising online scams and fears over digital trails are among the concerns of Brits

  4. Quarter of Fortune 500's External IT Assets Are a Cyber Risk

    Cyberpion warns of growing cloud attack surface

  5. Microsoft Patches OMIGOD, MSHTML and PrintNightmare Bugs

    Another busy Patch Tuesday will mean plenty of work for sysadmins

  6. Massachusetts AG Launches Probe into T-Mobile Data Breach

    T-Mobile data breach under investigation by Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey

  7. Kape Technologies to Acquire ExpressVPN

    Israeli-British cybersecurity company to buy leading VPN provider in deal worth nearly $1bn

  8. NY County IT Supervisor Charged with Crypto-Mining

    Suffolk County employee accused of mining Bitcoin at his workplace

  9. Financial Services Firms Spend Over $2m on Ransomware Recovery

    Most didn’t pay the ransom and could restore from backups

  10. Global Databases Riddled with an Average of 26 Vulnerabilities

    Imperva warns of surging threat to on-premises data troves

  11. Apple Releases Urgent Patch Following Discovery of Pegasus Spyware

    The vulnerability was discovered after the spyware was found on the iPhone of an anonymous Saudi activist

  12. Texas GOP Website Down After Anonymous Hack

    Hackers ridiculed the state’s Republican Party and went after Texas’ new ‘Heartbeat Act’

  13. Mustang Panda Compromises Indonesian Intelligence Agency

    Chinese cyber-spies reportedly breach Indonesian government ministries and agencies

  14. US Locks Up Key Player in Nigerian Romance Scam

    Oklahoman imprisoned for money-laundering role in multi-million-dollar lonely hearts online fraud

  15. CISA Announces New Chief of Staff

    Cyber Readiness Institute’s managing director, Kiersten Todt, named as CISA’s new chief of staff

  16. WhatsApp to Roll Out Encrypted Backups

    The move sees the Facebook-owned company offer very different user security and privacy features than Apple

  17. A Third of Industrial Control Systems Attacked in H1 2021

    Kaspersky claims spyware is growing threat to industrial systems

  18. UK Man Gets Five Years for Online Abuse Campaign

    Graphic designer blackmailed and intimidated several women

  19. University Hacker Sent to Prison

    Former master’s student imprisoned for hacking into university computer and selling exam answers

  20. Poland Extradites Alleged Botnet Operator to US

    Ukrainian accused of decrypting credentials and selling them on the dark web will face US court

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