UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc
Dunno, not making a particular point, other than that I've been around for ages. Don't cause havoc kids, at least not in these kinds of ways. [embedded post] Eric Geller / @ericjgeller.com : British...
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS — Get notified of outages that impact you — Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from CrowdStrike incident as ...
The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against 12 Kaspersky executives; the company and its founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky were not included
100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : US government sanctions twelve Kaspersky Lab executives The Hacker News : U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kas...
The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against 12 Kaspersky executives; the company and its founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky were not included
100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect The Hacker News : U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban Gaby Del Valle / The Verge : US sanctions Kaspersky Lab exec...
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains
International law enforcement and partners have joined forces. Europol : Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Police seize over 100 ma...
23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts
https://arstechnica.com/... John / @obeto@mas.to : That's the problem with biometric PIIs: they cannot be changed if a breach occurs. — If, some of the victims work in sensitive departments of our s...
Dutch chipmaker NXP alerts customers to a breach involving their personal data, discovered on July 14; NXP declines to say how many customers had been impacted
A NXP spokesperson declined to elaborate on the nature of the breach, and wouldn't say why NXP has only just begun informing those affected. The intrusion took place on July 11, and was discovered by...
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
Troy Hunt: the sensitive info of almost 4,000 Roblox Developer Conference attendees from 2017 to 2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak this week
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Troy Hunt: sensitive info of ~4,000 people who attended Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak just now
This may cost the company a few Robux. — The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach …