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Service linked to ransomware cartels, DoubleVPN, has its servers seized by Europol
Europol, the European police coordinating agency, and law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada seized the web domains and...
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Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online
About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online, it seems...
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Salary growth lags for scarce cyber professionals, ‘robot overlord’ among new job titles - report
Businesses are in dire need of gatekeepers against a flood of cyber-crime. Yet, while the volume and scale of cyber-attacks...
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New ransomware group Hive leaks Altus group sample files
On June 14th, Altus Group, a commercial real estate software solutions company, has announced that its data was breached. A...
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UK to investigate Amazon and Google over fake reviews
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened a formal probe into Amazon and Google over concerns that they...
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Swedish COVID-19 lab with millions of test results breached
IT solutions provider from Sweden reported it had detected hackers peaking inside a database for COVID-19 test results. Over three...
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Europe saw increased roaming speeds, Estonia came as the biggest winner with a 55% gain
As countries reopen, travel is expected to pick up with people using their phones abroad more than they did during...
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Remote employees pay $111 monthly for work-related cybersecurity - report
A new report does not look good for some employers - it shows that 14% of employees weren’t supplied with...
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Cl0p affiliated hackers exposed in Ukraine, $500 million in damages estimated
Ukrainian police reported uncovering a group of hackers who used ransomware software to extort money from foreign businesses, mainly in...
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Electronic Arts breach: FIFA 2021 and Frostbite source codes, 9 million user records stolen from EA and sold online
Unknown attackers have breached and infiltrated the systems of Electronic Arts (EA) and made away with the source code from...
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Analysis: online scam cost victims over $9 million in 2020
Even though 2021 is shaping up to be remembered as a golden year for ransomware extortion groups, automated online scams...
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Meat supplier JBS admits paying hackers a ransom of $11 million
The world’s largest meat processing company claims to have paid Russian-speaking hackers millions in bitcoin to put an end to...
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Cybercrime: it will get worse before it gets better
Online crime has been increasing by orders of magnitude for years now. Modern automation capabilities increasingly used by threat actors...
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Email vendor for the U.S. House hit by a ransomware attack
A company used by the U.S. House was hit with a ransomware attack. Chamber’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Catherine Szpindor,...
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Digital downsides: 5 ways technology makes our lives harder
Owning a pocket-fitted supercomputer is an advantage that would make our ancestors envy the bone. There are two sides to...
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Clearview AI hit with massive legal complaint by privacy watchdogs
Regulators have three months to respond to the complaint by Privacy International and others. The data harvesting practices of American...
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Dark side of encrypted chat apps: market for counterfeit goods and hacking tools
Encrypted chat apps have been instrumental in subverting authoritarian regimes. However, because of their private nature, cybercriminals exploit them to...
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Colonial Pipeline hack: DarkSide’s claim to be apolitical doesn’t carry much weight
The DarkSide hackers behind the Colonial Pipeline attack are manifesting themselves as robin hoods, claiming to give some of the...
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EU regulator investigates Facebook for its 533M users’ data leak
An Irish regulator said on Tuesday it is investigating a recent Facebook data leak when 533M users’ data, such as...
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Remote employees might be an easier target for cybercriminals in 2021
A spike in cybercrime that we faced in 2020 might repeat itself in 2021, only with more intensity, experts of...
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