There’s an update to a previously reported case from the Department of Justice: WASHINGTON – An Alabama man was sentenced today to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in the unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) social media account on X, formerly known as…
Ryan Price reports on The Manchester Evening News: The Post Office has agreed to pay compensation to hundreds of former subpostmasters whose names and addresses were accidentally leaked during a data breach last year. Last June, the personal details of 555 victims of the Horizon IT scandal were published on the Post Office’s website. What…
NCC Group saw over 570 ransomware attacks in December 2024, the highest number since it started monitoring them in 2021. The post Record Number of Ransomware Attacks in December 2024 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been attributed with high confidence to the use of the Russian bulletproof hosting service Proton66. Trustwave SpiderLabs, in a report published last week, said it was able to make this connection by pivoting from Proton66-linked digital assets, leading to the discovery of an active threat cluster that…
San Francisco application security startup raises $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The post Semgrep Raises $100M for AI-Powered Code Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In a large-scale international investigation, the Amsterdam police, led by the Public Prosecution Service, and the American FBI have taken down the criminal proxy service Anyproxy. This service had been used by cybercriminals since 2004 to anonymously commit criminal acts, including phishing, ransomware attacks and data theft. Anyproxy has been used to shut down networks…
MNGI Digestive Health, a multi-location gastroenterology practice in Minnesota, received preliminary court approval on May 7 to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from an August 2023 cyberattack. The incident was first reported on DataBreaches on September 25, 2023, but had been discovered by MNGI on August 25, 2023, after the BlackCat (AlphV) ransomware gang…
