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Europe wants Google to break up ad business, tech giant upset
They simply can’t stop. EU regulators hit Google with fresh antitrust charges and say it has to break up its main cash cow – the lucrative digital ad business. Google disagrees.
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Pentagon leaker indicted by federal grand jury
The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, accused of leaking classified US military documents on the instant messaging platform Discord, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston court.
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New hacking unit within Russian military intelligence identified by Microsoft
Cyber attacks hitting Ukrainian government agencies and IT vendors have been traced back to hackers associated with Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, Microsoft says.
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Cl0p names first batch of alleged MOVEit victims
The ransomware group responsible for compromising hundreds of companies by exploiting a zero-day flaw in the MOVEit file transfer platform seems to have released the names of its first batch of victims.
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Dozens of healthcare providers affected by Virginia debt collector breach
Social Security numbers (SSNs) of over 300,000 US residents have been exposed in a breach that occurred at R&B Corporation of Virginia.
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Bolloré subsidiary attack exposes Thales, Alibaba data
Attackers have posted supposedly confidential data on several customers of Automatic Systems, a secure entrance control manufacturer. Those affected include NATO, Alibaba, Thales, and others.
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French Senate gives green light to surveillance through cameras and microphones
In France, the Senate just approved a controversial provision to a justice bill that would allow law enforcement to secretly activate cameras and microphones on a suspect’s devices.
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Will natural selection favor AI over humans?
A coalition of artificial intelligence experts recently released a brief statement warning of the risk of extinction from AI, and one of the signatories, Professor Dan Hendrycks, has employed a Darwinian argument in his new paper.
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Casepoint attackers: we have Meta and Google comms with special services
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims it has accessed a trove of sensitive data, such as the ways tech giants deal with information requests from special services and the credentials of special agents.
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Kia, Hyundai sued by NYC over TikTok car theft challenge
New York City is the latest municipality to file a suit against Kia and Hyundai over the dramatic increase of stolen vehicles relating to a 2021 viral TikTok car theft challenge.
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Cl0p gang claims hundreds of MOVEit flaw victims
The Cl0p ransomware gang has issued a warning, declaring that they supposedly breached hundreds of companies using the MOVEit zero-day vulnerability.
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Regulators sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for illegal crypto exchange in US
US regulators filed a lawsuit against Binance and Changpeng Zhao for a string of violations, calling the world’s biggest crypto exchange “an extensive web of deception.”
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Microsoft pins MOVEit Transfer exploits on Cl0p
Microsoft says that recent attacks, which exploited the MOVEit Transfer 0-day vulnerability, were likely carried out by the Cl0p ransomware gang.
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SAS hackers ransom demand up again – now $10M
Anonymous Sudan, the pro Russian hacker group that has been targeting SAS Airlines for more than a week, has increased its ransom demand again – this time to $10 million.
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Zipper manufacturer YKK Group allegedly breached by LockBit
YKK Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of zippers, was recently posted on the LockBit gang’s dark web blog. Criminals use the site to showcase their latest victims.
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Internet turned off in Iraq to combat students cheating on exams
National-scale connectivity disruptions have been registered in Iraq, marking the first day of student exams. The Iraqi government is known for turning off fixed-line and mobile broadband services as a measure to combat cheating during state exams.
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NASA panel holds first public meeting on UFOs
US space agency NASA holds its first-ever public meeting on UFOs ahead of a new report examining unclassified records pertaining to so-called documented sightings.
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Toyota data leak exposes drivers’ details – again
Toyota admitted to a second data leak in less than three weeks, with the automaker exposing drivers’ sensitive details such as name and home address.
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SEC, US Courts, and DoD legal platform allegedly breached
Casepoint, a legal technology platform used by the United States Courts, Security Exchanges Commission (SEC), and the Department of Defense (DoD), was posted on a dark web blog run by cybercriminals.
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NASA nails fastest data transmission in space - 1000 movies in 6 minutes
Using lasers, NASA and its partners achieved data transmission at a record speed of 200 gigabits per second, unlocking opportunities for further space exploration.
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