17-Year-Old Linked to Scattered Spider Cybercrime Syndicate Arrested in U.K.
Jul 20, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Data Breach Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall who is suspected to be a…
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Russian nationals plead guilty to participating in the LockBit ransomware group
Russian nationals plead guilty to participating in the LockBit ransomware group Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2024 Two Russian nationals pleaded guilty to participating in the…
Two LockBit Ransomware Affiliates Plead Guilty In U.S. Federal Court
Two foreign nationals from the notorious international ransomware group LockBit pleaded guilty in the in Newark federal court for participating in the group and deploying…
Ghost Emperor Chinese-Linked Group Returns After 2 Years
A China-linked hacking group known as Ghost Emperor has resurfaced with an updated version of its sophisticated Demodex rootkit, according to cybersecurity researchers. Ghost Emperor…
CrowdStrike explains update that crippled Windows environments – Security
CrowdStrike has provided its first technical explanation for a file update that bricked Windows machines worldwide. The vendor said in a blog post that a “sensor…
Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the company’s Falcon monitoring platform that…
The Dumbest Thing In Security This Week: CrowdStrike For The Win
In a week that saw a cryptocurrency exchange lose $235 million to hackers and a botched migration that led to the takeover of four crypto…
UK Teen Allegedly Part Of Scattered Spider Gang Arrested
A 17-year-old from Walsall, England, has been apprehended in connection with the infamous Scattered Spider ransomware syndicate. The teen suspect was taken into custody on…
Healthcare Dark Web Monitoring Insights For CISOs
In today’s digital age, healthcare data has become a prime target for cybercriminals. With a single health record fetching up to $1,000 on the dark…
MediSecure data breach impacted 12.9 million individuals
MediSecure data breach impacted 12.9 million individuals Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2024 Personal and health information of 12.9 million individuals was exposed in a ransomware attack…
CrowdStrike update at center of Windows “Blue Screen of Death” outage
A faulty update from the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike crashed countless Windows computers and sent them into a “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), grinding to a…
Number of data breach victims goes up 1,000%
Nope, that headline’s not a typo. Over one thousand percent. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an…