Cybersecurity
German authorities said on Tuesday that they shut down Russian dark web marketplace Hydra in an operation that saw police seize more than $25 million worth of Bitcoin. The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, and the Frankfurt…
Cash App is notifying 8.2 million current and former US customers of a data breach after a former employee accessed their account information. Block, Inc., the owner of Cash App, disclosed in a Form 8-K SEC filing that the breach occurred on December 10th, 2021…
Malware hunters at Broadcom’s Symantec division have spotted signs that a long-running cyberespionage campaign linked to Chinese nation-state hackers is now going after managed service providers (MSPs) with a more global footprint. In a report issued Tuesday, Symantec…
A notorious cybercrime group has leaked several gigabytes of files allegedly stolen from US industrial components giant Parker Hannifin. Parker Hannifin specializes in motion and control technologies, and it provides precision engineered solutions for organizations in the…
The notorious cybercrime group known as FIN7 has diversified its initial access vectors to incorporate software supply chain compromise and the use of stolen credentials, new research has revealed. "Data theft extortion or ransomware deployment following FIN7-attributed…
A Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group known for singling out Japanese entities has been attributed to a new long-running espionage campaign targeting new geographies, suggesting a "widening" of the threat actor's targeting…
Email marketing service Mailchimp on Monday revealed a data breach that resulted in the compromise of an internal tool to gain unauthorized access to customer accounts and stage phishing attacks. The development was first reported by Bleeping Computer…
Anonymous hackers who have been targeting Russia since the invasion of Ukraine reported more strikes against critical infrastructure sectors — including one using an “improved” iteration of Russian Conti ransomware — and called for the targeting of companies that…
Emma Best is used to dealing with leaked files from American organizations. Best’s organization, Distributed Denial of Secrets, is best known for curating, publishing and promoting giant caches of files from a variety of sources, including U.S. police departments…
Roughly one out of six organizations worldwide that are impacted by the Spring4Shell zero-day vulnerability have already been targeted by threat actors, according to statistics from one cybersecurity company. The exploitation attempts took place in the first four days since the…