The two members of Congress called on the Commerce Department to investigate risks related to TP-Link routers amid concerns over state-backed Chinese hacking operations.
Recent scrutiny of the Russia-linked Doppelgänger influence operation has disrupted how it behaves, according to the BayLfV, an agency of the Bavarian state government.
At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference on Thursday, National Cyber Director Harry Coker, Jr. said his office is working with the Department of Treasury’s federal insurance office as well as officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on the effort.
The agency said at least 43 companies have been attacked by the group in the U.S., South America, India, Europe, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere.
European regulators said TikTok Lite Rewards potentially caused addictive behavior, and the company failed to provide a risk assessment before launching the program.
Businesses that fall victim to a data breach can expect a financial hit of nearly $5 million on average — a 10% increase compared to last year — according to IBM’s annual report on cybersecurity incidents.
Veteran cybercriminals appear to be reducing their dependence on ransomware-as-a-service platforms — a sign that law enforcement raids are having an impact. Experts say the market for digital extortion tools has plenty of room to adapt, though.
Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16), known for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Ukraine’s allies.
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency said it disrupted DigitalStress, a DDoS-for-hire operation that has been “responsible for tens of thousands of attacks every week across the globe.”
The West Midlands Police said U.K. agencies — in coordination with the FBI — arrested a 17-year-old suspect in a breach that upended MGM's operations last year on the Las Vegas Strip.
An operation labeled TAG-100 by Insikt Group researchers deploys two types of backdoor malware — SparkRAT and Pantegana — that have only been spotted in limited ways previously.
An information-stealing script embedded in a Python package on the popular repository PyPI appears to be connected to a cybercriminal operation based in Iraq, according to researchers at Checkmarx.
The NATO Integrated Cyber Defense Center will “enhance network protection, situational awareness and the implementation of cyberspace as an operational domain,” the alliance said.
TeamViewer says that a recently discovered breach appears to be limited to its internal corporate IT network. The software company has attributed it to a hacking operation associated with Russian intelligence.
Tech giant Cloudflare urged customers to remove a popular open source library used to support older browsers after reports emerged this week that the tool is being used to distribute malware.
The company updated an advisory about a bug affecting the MOVEit tool, warning a “newly identified vulnerability in a third-party component" had elevated the risks.
According to the Department of Justice, 22-year-old Amin Stigal helped Russian military intelligence carry out cyber operations, including probing computers belonging to a federal government agency in Maryland.
Andrei Sannikov and Evgeny Erlikh discuss the effects of discovering their devices had been infected with Pegasus — making them part of a rapidly expanding list of civil-society figures targeted with the commercial spyware.
Neiman Marcus is the latest large company affected by a run of attacks on customers of the data cloud storage provider Snowflake.
South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) was hit by hackers on Saturday, with the dissemination of lab results severely impacted.
