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Capita, the British outsourcing company hit by a ransomware attack in March, said on Wednesday the incident will cost up to £20 million ($25 million) to respond to. The expenses have been attributed ...
Japan’s leading financial regulator reported an explosion of unauthorized stock market trades in April — with almost $2 billion in funds moved by hackers. Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) ...
Two powerful botnets have been dismantled by law enforcement agencies and the alleged administrators now face criminal charges, U.S. prosecutors said Friday. The Justice Department said it seized the ...
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) told parents and staff on Wednesday that it was sent an extortion letter even after a hacker was paid off by the ed tech giant PowerSchool to prevent the leak ...
Bryan Vorndran, who has helped guide the FBI to be more aggressive in disrupting malicious hackers and cybercrime gangs, will retire from the agency soon, Recorded Future News has learned. Vorndran, ...
Researchers at Google have discovered a new malware, dubbed Lostkeys, which they say is being used by a Russian government-backed hacking group Coldriver in an espionage campaign. Lostkeys is capable ...
A Northern California jury on Tuesday decided that a spyware manufacturer must pay $167 million in punitive damages for its role facilitating the hacking of 1,400 WhatsApp users’ mobile phones. The ...
Cyberthreat actors are targeting complex systems used by the oil and natural gas industry, according to a one-paragraph notice published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
MANCHESTER, England — Britain’s intelligence services are seeing a “direct connection between Russian cyber attacks and physical threats to our security,” the country’s cyber chief announced on ...
Polish authorities have arrested four people suspected of running illegal DDoS-for-hire services that allowed users to launch cyberattacks on websites and servers worldwide, according to Europol. The ...
An education tech giant that was hacked in December said Wednesday that the same threat actor is now attempting to use the stolen data to extort the individual school districts that it works with.
A cyberattack on medical device manufacturer Masimo is affecting the company’s ability to process and ship customer orders. The company notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday ...