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Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts

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Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million ($263 million) for a 2018 data breach that exposed the personal data of millions, including 3 million users in the EU. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed the penalty, citing violations of GDPR privacy regulations, marking yet another significant […]

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Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights

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An Australian man has been accused of setting up a fake Wi-Fi network on a domestic flight in order to obtain user information and credentials. The 42-year-old, who has not been identified, “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them,”

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Russian Hacker Dmitry Khoroshev Unmasked as LockBit Ransomware Administrator

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Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, a 31-year-old Russian national, is the administrator and creator of the LockBit ransomware campaign, according to the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA). The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCD) of the United Kingdom

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Ex-NSA Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia

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A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee in the United States was given a sentence of nearly 22 years (262 months) in jail for trying to send confidential documents to Russia. “This sentence should serve as a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information that there are consequences to betraying that

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Hive RAT Creators and $3.5M Cryptojacking Mastermind Arrested in Global Crackdown

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Two people have been detained in Australia and the United States in relation to a purported plan to create and disseminate the remote access trojan known as Hive RAT (formerly Firebird). According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), the virus “gave the malware purchasers control over victim computers and enabled them to access victims’

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Over 225,000 Compromised ChatGPT Credentials Up for Sale on Dark Web Markets

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Between January and October 2023, more than 225,000 logs with compromised OpenAI ChatGPT credentials were put up for sale on dark web marketplaces, according to recent research from Group-IB. These login credentials were discovered in information theft records connected to the Raccoon, RedLine, and LummaC2 malware. “The number of infected devices grew significantly between August

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CISA Warning: Akira Ransomware Exploiting Cisco ASA/FTD Vulnerability

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Following reports that it’s likely being exploited in Akira ransomware attacks, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a now-patched security flaw affecting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defence (FTD) software to its list of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) on Thursday. The high-severity information disclosure flaw in question is CVE-2020-3259

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3,500 Arrested in Global Operation HAECHI-IV Targeting Financial Criminals

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Over the course of a six-month worldwide police investigation known as HAECHI-IV, approximately 3,500 people have been arrested and $300 million worth of assets have been seized from 34 different nations. Targeting a variety of financial crimes, including voice phishing, romance scams, online extortion, investment fraud, money laundering connected to illicit online gambling, business email

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New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool

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The threat actors have responded with an upgraded version of ESXiArgs ransomware that encrypts more data after the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks. A system administrator posted information on the new variant on an online forum where another user said that

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