Category: CYBER SECURITY

Verizon Communications is set to pay a $16 million settlement to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) following multiple data breaches at its subsidiary, TracFone Wireless.

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a Russian hacktivist group believed to be responsible for breaching water facilities in the United States.

The largest trial court in the United States, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, closed all 36 courthouse locations on Monday to restore systems affected by a Friday ransomware attack​.

A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Telegram for Android, known as 'EvilVideo,' allowed attackers to send malicious APK payloads disguised as video files.

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a massive data leak exposing millions of records belonging to ClickBalance, Mexico's leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology provider.

On Sunday, crypto platform WazirX, which lost a staggering $234 million worth of digital assets in a cyber breach, announced $23 million in bounty to recover the stolen funds.

Two individuals, Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 21, and Mikhail Vasiliev, 34, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court for their involvement in the LockBit ransomware group.

India's leading cryptocurrency exchange WazirX on Thursday said it had suffered a massive data security breach, resulting in the alleged transfer of about $234 million worth of digital assets to a different address, as crypto exchanges continue to face the regulatory heat.

Cybersecurity Researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a non-password-protected database that contained 148,000 records belonging to InHouse Physicians.

A highly technical Android malware campaign by Vietnamese hackers is targeting Indian users through fake traffic e-challan messages on WhatsApp, according to a report on Wednesday.

AT&T has allegedly disbursed a staggering $370,000 to a hacker to delete sensitive customer data that was stolen during a recent security breach.

On Friday, AT&T disclosed a significant cybersecurity breach that compromised call records and texts from nearly all its cellular customers.

The European Commission on Friday informed Elon Musk-owned X social media platform that it is in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers.

The recent cyberattack in Indonesia that massively disrupted its national data system has urged the country to strengthen its cyber resilience and evaluate its digital technology policy.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) warned users of multiple vulnerabilities in Node.js, which could allow an attacker to compromise the targeted system.

Minister Dean Macpherson said Wednesday that cyberattackers allegedly stole 300 million South African rand (about 16.6 million US dollars) from the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure over the past 10 years.

Fujitsu has confirmed that customer data was compromised in a cyberattack discovered earlier this year.

Security researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Modern Events Calendar plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 7.11.0.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized control of a sprawling 'bot farm' allegedly operated by the Russian government.

Security researchers at Avast have cracked the code on DoNex ransomware and released a free decryptor tool for it and its previous variants.