Category: CYBER SECURITY

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two cryptocurrency exchanges, Cryptex and PM2BTC, for laundering funds connected to Russian ransomware gangs and cybercrime groups.

The official OpenAI Newsroom account on X, which shares news and updates from the company and has nearly 54,000 followers, was taken over to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.

Temu, the fast-growing e-commerce platform, has firmly denied allegations of a data breach after a hacker claimed to be selling a database with 87 million customer records.

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a non-password-protected database containing over 780,000 records belonging to FleetPanda, a tech provider specializing in dispatch management and analytics for the fuel industry.

According to the FBI, 2023 marked a record year for cryptocurrency fraud, with losses surpassing $5.6 billion.

A cybersecurity researcher is urging users to update Adobe Acrobat Reader following the release of a critical fix for a zero-day vulnerability.

A newly discovered privacy vulnerability in WhatsApp, the messaging platform with over 2 billion users globally, is being exploited by attackers to bypass the app’s "View Once" feature. This flaw enables them to view supposedly one-time messages multiple times.

Confidant Health, an AI-powered platform offering mental health and addiction treatment services, recently experienced a significant data breach.

A newly discovered high-severity vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin, used to speed up browsing on over 6 million WordPress sites, has raised significant security concerns.

The U.S. Justice Department has announced that the FBI seized 32 web domains linked to the Doppelgänger network, a Russian-backed disinformation campaign targeting the American public ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

New data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reveals a staggering increase in the amount of money consumers report losing to scams involving Bitcoin ATMs. Since 2020, these losses have surged nearly tenfold, reaching over $110 million in 2023 alone.

Today, with the release of the monthly Pixel software update, Google has officially removed Showcase.apk. The release notes for the September patch confirm that the update "removes third-party APK to address security vulnerability."

RansomHub, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in February 2024, has breached more than 200 victims across various critical U.S. infrastructure sectors.

Google has significantly increased payouts for security vulnerabilities in Google Chrome, with the maximum reward for a single bug now exceeding $250,000.

The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a $2.5 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Belarusian national Volodymyr Kadariya, who is wanted for his involvement in various cybercrime activities.

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has firmly denied allegations that its systems were breached by the Hunters International ransomware gang, despite the group's recent claim on a dark web leak site.

Young Consulting, now known as Connexure, is sending data breach notifications to 954,177 people who had their information exposed in a BlackSuit ransomware attack on April 10, 2024.

Google announced that it has patched the tenth zero-day vulnerability of 2024, which was actively exploited in the wild.

AT&T has agreed to pay a $950,000 civil penalty to settle a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation into a 911 outage that occurred on August 22, 2023.