The Spanish police have arrested 34 members of the cybercriminal group that is accused of having stolen data of over 4M individuals.
Sony has launched an investigation after a ransomware group claimed to have compromised all systems and offered to sell stolen data.
Plugins can return malicious content and hijack your AI.
A quick summary first before the details: This week, the FBI in cooperation with international law enforcement partners took down a notorious marketplace trading in stolen identity data in an effort they've named "Operation Cookie Monster". They've provided millions of impacted email addresses and passwords to Have I Been Pwned
The hacker claims the stolen data includes confidential presentations from Acer, along with software files for the company's PC products. Acer says consumer data was not breached.
TikTok’s software development kits could undermine Joe Biden's order to stop internet traffic flowing from federal employees' phones to TikTok within 30 days.
A handful of markets were responsible for trafficking most of the data.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following the prolonged misuse of the personal information of up to 28 million children.
An ICO investigation found that the DfE’s poor due diligence meant a database of pupils’ learning records was ultimately used by Trust Systems Software UK Ltd (trading as Trustopia), an employment screening firm, to check whether people opening online gambling accounts were 18.
The “Dormant Colors” is yet another vast campaign of malicious extensions with millions of active installations worldwide, this time with a color-related theme and full of deception all through the chain. It starts with the trickery malvertising campaign, continues with a crafty novel way to side-load the real malicious code without anyone noticing (until now!), and finally with stealing not only your searches and browsing data, but also affiliation to 10,000 targeted sites — a capability that is easily leveraged for targeted spear phishing, account takeover and credential extraction — all using this powerful network of millions of infected computers worldwide!
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
Incident just the latest iteration of the back and forth between Israeli and Iranianian-aligned hackers.
Anonymous has struck Russia again by leaking 1TB of data from a leading Russian law firm identified as Rustam Kurmaev and Partners (RKP Law).
ISPs are quietly distributing "netflow" data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs.
Last year was another record setter for our Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs). Throughout 2021, we partnered with the security researcher community to identify and fix thousands of vulnerabilities – helping keep our users and the internet safe.
