A broad range of personal and health data was exposed in an April ransomware attack on dialysis provider DaVita, the company said in notices filed in several states.
According to the research published Tuesday, it is possible for an attacker to break into the ControlVault chip used in many laptops owned by security professionals and modify the firmware inside.
The Treasury Department warned that the massive increase in the number of crypto ATMs — convertible virtual currency kiosks — has been accompanied by a spike in the number of operators who fail to comply with anti-money laundering rules.
Multiple cybersecurity incident response firms are warning about the possibility that a zero-day vulnerability in some SonicWall devices is allowing ransomware attacks.
The decision in the civil case against Meta over how it handled data from the Flo period tracking app represents a significant loss for the tech giant, privacy advocates say.
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said it hacked into government servers in Russian-occupied Crimea that allegedly contained evidence of Russia’s forced deportation of Ukrainian children from occupied territories.
The Senate voted 59-35 to place Republican Party insider Sean Cairncross atop the Office of the National Cyber Director, which plays a pivotal role in dictating policy and bolstering U.S. cybersecurity efforts.
The Commission on Cyber Force Generation will develop potential routes Congress and the White House could follow in creating a separate cyber service and aim to deliver them in time for next year’s must-pass national defense authorization act.
Beginning on October 12 a new program known as the Entry/Exit System (EES) will be launched, requiring biometric data instead of paper checks of passports in order to enter certain European countries.
Authorities in Luxembourg said a nationwide telecommunications outage in July was caused by a deliberately disruptive cyberattack. Huawei networking products were reportedly the target.
San Diego-based Illumina will pay $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by selling systems to the federal government that included cybersecurity flaws.
In a warning to foreign embassies in Moscow, Microsoft said a Russian state-backed hacking group known as Secret Blizzard or Turla has been using internet service providers for adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks.
The goal of Thorium is to enable cyber defenders to bring automation to their existing analysis through simple tool integration and event-driven triggers, CISA said, adding that it is built to support cybersecurity teams across mission functions.
In its latest operation, Lazarus took advantage of major gaps in the open-source software supply chain — like developers depending on unvetted packages and the lack of oversight for popular tools that are often maintained by just one or two people.
Mike Burgess, who leads the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, said at the Annual Hawke Lecture at the University of South Australia that he was putting a dollar figure on the economic cost of espionage for the first time to stress the “real, present and costly danger” facing Australia.
Discount retail giant Dollar Tree denied its systems were impacted by ransomware after a cybercriminal group claimed to have attacked the company.
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