Infosecurity News

  1. Secret School District Crypto Miner Resigns

    Texas school district employee caught mining cryptocurrency at school quits job

  2. Ransomware Fallout Costs Seven Times the Ransom Paid

    Check Point analysis highlights need for well-planned incident response

  3. Bumblebee Malware Loader Has a Sting in the Tail

    Researchers warn that malware appears to have replaced BazarLoader

  4. Five Eyes Agencies List Top 15 Most Exploited Bugs of 2021

    Organizations urged to patch immediately

  5. Europol: Deepfakes Set to Be Used Extensively in Organized Crime

    Europol warns law enforcement agencies to enhance skills and tech at officers’ disposal to keep pace with criminal use of deepfakes

  6. Uber ‘Cough Girl’ Accused of Identity Theft

    Woman shown coughing on Uber driver in viral video allegedly stole nurse’s identity

  7. Chickens Baked Alive Due to Computer Glitch

    English farm fined $55K after more than 27,000 birds die in overheating disaster

  8. Crypto Trading Fund Partners Accused of Fraud

    Block Bits Fund investors allegedly conned out of $960K by defendants’ tech misrepresentations

  9. Global Security Spending Set to Hit $198bn by 2025

    Geopolitical uncertainty adds to CISOs' headaches

  10. Microsoft: Russia Has Launched Hundreds of Cyber Operations in Ukraine

    Pre-positioning began as far back as March 2021

  11. Security Alert as Researchers Discover 400,000 Exposed Databases

    Public-facing assets are a prime target for attack

  12. Cyber Skills Gap Linked to Breaches

    Impact of skills gap in cybersecurity industry goes beyond talent shortage

  13. Smile Brands Breach Impacts 2.5 Million Individuals

    Data breach, first reported as impacting 1200 individuals, affected 2,592,494

  14. Private Investigator Admits Role in Hedge Fund Hack

    Private investigator pleads guilty to involvement in global fraud and hacking conspiracy

  15. State of Ransomware Report 2022: 66% Organizations Hit in 2021

    Around two-thirds (66%) of organizations were hit by a ransomware attack in 2021, surging from 37% in 2020

  16. Coca-Cola Investigates Data Breach Claim

    Ransomware group Stormous claims it has stolen 161GB of data from the soft drinks giant

  17. UK Schools Can Sign-Up to Free Government-Grade Security

    Web and email security services are provided by GCHQ

  18. Nimbuspwn Linux Bugs Could Provide Root Access

    Microsoft-discovered vulnerabilities have now been resolved

  19. US Offers $10m for Russian NotPetya Sandworm Team

    Military officers were indicted for the campaign in 2020

  20. Data Breach Disrupts UK Army Recruitment

    British Army online recruitment system down since March following data breach

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