Editor’s Note: Late last year, cybersecurity researchers began to notice a ransomware strain called ALPHV that stood out for being particularly sophisticated and coded in the Rust programming language ...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Americans lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, a number that has been exponentially increasing since 2018 when the agency first ...

Companies, individuals and other victims of ransomware attacks paid hackers more than $1.1 billion in 2023 in exchange for unlocking their data, according to new research. Chainalysis — a blockchain ...

A Canadian man who worked as an "affiliate" for the NetWalker ransomware gang was sentenced last week to seven years in prison for his crimes. The suspect, Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, pleaded guilty ...

Google will pay $350 million to settle a long-running class action lawsuit focused on how a security glitch in its now defunct Google Plus social media platform exposed millions of its users’ data to ...

A controversial Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order forcing Meta to no longer monetize kids’ data — which Meta is suing to overturn — exemplifies why fines are not enough when it comes to reining in ...

In the two months since Russia-linked hackers attacked Ukraine’s largest telecom operator, many questions have emerged about how they gained access to the company's systems and lingered there, likely ...

In one of the most impactful changes made in recent years, Microsoft has announced today that it will block by default the execution of VBA macro scripts inside five Office applications. Starting with ...

Hackers allegedly connected to China’s government are conducting attacks with the long-term goal of causing physical destruction, according to a new advisory from several of the world’s leading cyber ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it helped dozens of hospitals respond to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incidents last week that were launched by a ...

Hackers working for Russia’s intelligence services are impersonating researchers and academics in an ongoing campaign to gain access to their colleagues’ email accounts, according to messages and ...

Despite years of promotional efforts to get users to enable stronger authentication mechanisms, Microsoft said this week that only 22% of all its Azure Active Directory (AD) customers used a ...