A high profile French basketball team has fallen victim to the NoEscape ransomware-as-a-service group, who claim to have stolen 32 GB of data including sensitive personal information about the club's star players.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Category: data breach
Ahoy! There's trouble in the South China Seas as Filipino organisations fail to secure their systems, we take a close look at Google IP protection, and we take a look at just how so much genetic profile data leaked out of 23andMe.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.
Golem, the hacker who leaked the data of one million Ashkenazi Jews from the 23andMe ancestry service earlier this month has now released 4.1 million more genetic data profiles.
The hacker claims they've included details of "the wealthiest people living in the US and Western Europe," including the British Royal family.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A former US Navy IT manager has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison after illegally hacking a database containing personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Plastic surgeries have been warned that they are being targeted by cybercriminals plotting to steal sensitive data - ncluding patients' medical records and photographs - that will be later used for extortion.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Mix TikTok with facial recognition, and you've got a doxxing nightmare, T-Mobile users report bizarre behaviour in their accounts, and a Windows flaw provides a new means of infecting users.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Paul Ducklin.
UK charities including Shelter, the RSPCA, the Dogs Trust, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, and Friends of the Earth have warned their supporters that hackers have stolen their data following a breach at a supplier.
The FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint advisory warning organisations about a ransomware-as-a-service operation called "Snatch."
Learn more about the threat in my article for the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Uh-oh, yet another UK police force has suffered a serious data breach.
After the incidents involving Cumbria Police, Norfolk and Suffolk Police, and – perhaps worst of all – the PSNI in Northern Ireland, it’s now Greater Manchester Police finding itself in the hot seat.