Bleeping Computer reports: New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners has disclosed that its systems were breached in January following a social engineering attack. The company manages over $90 billion in regulatory assets and has invested in over 800 software and technology startups and companies worldwide during its 30 years of activity. […]
TechCrunch reports: U.S. cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks has warned that hackers are exploiting another vulnerability in its firewall software to break into unpatched customer networks. Attackers are exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in PAN-OS, the operating system that runs Palo Alto Networks firewalls, the California-based company confirmed on Tuesday. Cybersecurity firm Assetnote first discovered the vulnerability, […]
Courthouse News Service has an update on the Cambridge Analytica settlement. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday afternoon that a federal court did not abuse its discretion in 2023 when it approved a $725 million settlement between Facebook, Inc. — now known as Meta — and a settlement class concerning the Cambridge Analytica scandal, an event in which […]
Some might say it was only a matter of time. HuffPost reports: Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing […]
The Washington Post reports: A “sophisticated cyberattack” struck the offices of Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares on Wednesday, forcing the agency to shut down computer systems and resort to paper court filings as Virginia State Police and the FBI investigate. “Unfortunately our agency has been the victim of what appears to be a sophisticated […]
WGTC reports: Attorney General William Tong has announced that Connecticut is joining several other states in filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s administration and the overreach of his Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency. Tong is one of 19 Democratic attorneys general who have sued Trump in an effort to block Musk from accessing the systems […]
Bleeping Computer reports: A global law enforcement operation targeting the Phobos ransomware gang has led to the arrest of four suspected hackers in Phuket, Thailand, and the seizure of 8Base’s dark web sites. The suspects are accused of conducting cyberattacks on over 1,000 victims worldwide. The arrested individuals, two men and two women, are Europeans […]
Agencies Ghack reports: One of the largest data leaks in recent history has exposed a staggering 1.5 billion records, affecting major Chinese platforms, financial institutions, and even government-related entities. The unprotected dataset, discovered by Cybernews researchers, contains sensitive details, including full names, government ID numbers, phone numbers, financial records, and healthcare data. The leaked records originate from […]
The Record reports: Federal agencies are warning hospitals of a backdoor discovered in a popular line of patient monitors sold by Chinese company Contec. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released warnings on Thursday about an embedded function they found in the firmware of the Contec CMS8000 — […]
Some long-standing hacking forums are standing no more. They have been seized by law enforcement in an international cooperative operation. PC Mag reports: The FBI has seized a pair of internet forums dedicated to computer hacking and forced the affected domains offline. The crackdown ensnared Cracked[.]io and Nulled[.]to, two forums known for hosting and selling […]
