Interpol has claimed success with a new online operation designed to uncover human trafficking victims and facilitators operating in South America and Europe. The policing group teamed up with inter-governmental body the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),…
Dec 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananSpyware / Mobile Security Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp scored a major legal victory in its fight against Israeli commercial spyware vendor NSO Group after a federal judge in the U.S. state of California ruled in favor of the…
Dec 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananGDPR / Data Privacy Italy’s data protection authority has fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI a fine of €15 million ($15.66 million) over how the generative artificial intelligence application handles personal data. The fine comes nearly a year after…
A dual Russian and Israeli national has been charged in the United States for allegedly being the developer of the now-defunct LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation since its inception in or around 2019 through at least February 2024. Rostislav Panev, 51,…
Cybersecurity firm Dragos has identified 23 ransomware groups that impacted industrial organizations, according to its Industrial Ransomware Analysis: Q3 2024 report. Some of these groups represented entirely new entities, while others were assessed to be rebranded versions of existing groups.…
The FBI has issued a warning that Hiatus remote access trojan (RAT) malware has been observed targeting Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. Specifically, the actors have targeted Xiongmai and Hikvision devices with telnet access. The FBI has urged limiting the…
The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has taken sanctions against OpenAI over data protection failures related to the ChatGPT chatbot. OpenAI must pay a €15m ($15.6m) fine and carry out a six-month public awareness…
The LockBit ransomware group could be making a comeback after months of struggling to maintain its criminal activity following its takedown in February 2024. On December 19, LockBitSupp, the persona allegedly run by the ransom-as-s-service (RaaS) group admins, announced on…
Dec 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananFirewall Security / Vulnerability Sophos has released hotfixes to address three security flaws in Sophos Firewall products that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and allow privileged system access under certain conditions. Of the three,…
Ukraine’s state registers, operated by the Ministry of Justice, have suffered their largest cyber-attack, with the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) opening a criminal investigation into the incident, which it has attributed to Russia. The SSU has established that a…
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