Category: CYBER SECURITY

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that Americans lost a staggering $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, marking a 25% increase from the previous year.

Elon Musk on Monday said a massive cyber attack has hit his X social media platform, that disabled millions of users across the globe from accessing the social media platform.

NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed a potential data breach following unauthorized access to its internal systems.

U.S. officials have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to a massive $150 million theft from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024.

The FBI has warned about scammers posing as the BianLian ransomware gang, sending fraudulent ransom letters to corporate executives in the United States.

The U.S. Secret Service, in coordination with the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, the FBI, and Europol, has seized the domain of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex.

Microsoft has dismantled an undisclosed number of GitHub repositories that were being used in a massive malvertising campaign, which affected nearly one million devices worldwide.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled criminal charges against 12 Chinese nationals accused of orchestrating cyberattacks on over 100 American organizations, including the Treasury Department.

A new botnet malware called 'Eleven11bot' has compromised more than 86,000 Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

A data breach involving Lost and Found Software, a Germany-based company that manages lost and found services for multiple airports in the US, Canada, and Europe, has been discovered.

Microsoft has discovered five security flaws in the Paragon Partition Manager BioNTdrv.sys driver, with one of them actively exploited by ransomware gangs to gain SYSTEM privileges in Windows.

U.S. authorities have recovered $31 million in cryptocurrency stolen during 2021 cyberattacks on Uranium Finance, a DeFi protocol on Binance’s BNB Chain.

A new version of the Vo1d malware botnet has infected over 1.59 million Android TV devices in 226 countries, according to cybersecurity researchers at Xlab.

A cybercriminal accused of stealing and leaking data from over 90 companies worldwide has been arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

Microsoft has taken down two widely used VSCode extensions, Material Theme – Free and Material Theme Icons – Free, from the Visual Studio Marketplace after cybersecurity researchers flagged them for containing potentially malicious code.

The data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has added over 284 million compromised accounts after discovering a massive trove of stolen credentials on a Telegram channel.

DISA Global Solutions, a leading U.S.-based employee screening service provider, has announced a significant data breach impacting over 3.3 million individuals.

North Korea’s infamous Lazarus hacking group has been linked to a massive $1.5 billion cryptocurrency theft from the exchange Bybit. Experts say this is now the biggest crypto heist in history.

The Australian government has banned all Kaspersky Lab products and web services from its systems, saying they pose a serious security risk.

OpenAI has blocked multiple North Korean hacking groups from using its ChatGPT platform to research targets and develop hacking techniques.