Cybercriminals impersonated government investigators and the chief justice of India's Supreme Court in a fake Skype call to defraud wealthy industrialist and Vardhman Group Chairman S.P. Oswal out of about $835,000 after threatening to arrest him on money laundering charges.
Russia’s primary federal investigative agency announced a rare and sweeping investigation into the United States-sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex and other platforms used to carry out illegal transactions and launder millions from ransomware groups.
Illumio and Akamai remained atop Forrester's microsegmentation rankings, while ColorTokens and Cisco climbed into the leader space.The microsegmentation market has expanded beyond traditional on-premises networks to address modern public cloud workloads.
The Irish data regulator launched an investigation into Dublin-based ultra low-cost carrier Ryanair to identify potential privacy violations related to the company's use of third-party facial recognition technology, stepping into a running fight Ryainair has fought against online ticket sellers.
Targeted advertising may face additional restrictions following a ruling by the top European Union court that social media giant Meta cannot indefinitely retain user data. Nor can it use data for advertising "without distinction as to type of data," the European Court of Justice said Friday.
Federal regulators have hit a California physician services organization with a $240,000 HIPAA civil penalty following an investigation into three ransomware attacks that occurred within a three-week span in early 2018, compromising the sensitive information of 85,000 patients.
Adam Geller discusses his shift from Exabeam CEO back to product leadership at Zscaler, where he plans to use the company's vast data insights and security operations to drive growth. Geller emphasizes the importance of CXO-level visibility and robust customer adoption strategies.
Ivanti confirmed that hackers are exploiting an SQL injection vulnerability in its Ivanti Endpoint Manager enabling remote code execution, despite the company addressing the issue with a patch in May. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers within the same network to execute arbitrary code.
Thousands of online stores running Adobe Commerce and Magento software have been hacked since the summer and infected with digital payment skimmers by attackers targeting a vulnerability known as CosmicSting. While patched by Adobe in June, users also need to forcibly invalidate stolen credentials.
A cyberattack shut down government web portals, servers and a regional data center in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, forcing agencies to scramble to restore affected services. The attack disrupted work at all government locations and crippled services to citizens.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed recent international law enforcement efforts against Russian cybercrime organizations, the latest U.S. cybersecurity bill aimed at protecting the healthcare sector and key takeaways from ISMG's Canada Summit.
Google asserts that platformization and consolidation can help contain today's sophisticated threats. Embedding generative AI into security is also required as the industry moves from assisted AI to semi-autonomous and, eventually, to autonomous security, with the goal of security by default.
A misconfigured web server and the exposure of sensitive information for nearly 600,000 prison inmates in 2022 will cost medical claims processing company CorrectCare $6.49 million to settle a consolidated proposed class action lawsuit, according to court records.
This week, AI nudify sites spread malware, BEC scammers head to prison, London man charged with hacking, and a Spanish insurance company with a breach. Also, a North Korean hacking group and a West African crackdown on online scammers. And, a Schrödinger Windows vulnerability: Is it real?
While the number of ransomware attacks stayed about the same in the past year, cybercriminals are using more effective tactics such as weaponizing breach disclosure deadlines to extract higher ransoms, according to ENISA's 2024 Threat Landscape report.
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