Jayant Chakravarti reports: The Australian financial regulator has filed a lawsuit against FIIG Securities, accusing the leading investment and financing company of lacking adequate cybersecurity controls to stop a threat actor from stealing confidential personal information of 18,000 customers. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it decided to sue Brisbane-headquartered FIIG Securities in Federal Court after…
Urvashi reports: In 2017, Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the United States, announced a significant data breach that exposed the personal and financial information of about 147 million individuals. This highly sensitive data included Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and, for some victims, credit card information. News of the breach…
Jen Easterly hopes CISA is allowed to continue its election-related work under new leadership despite “contentiousness” around that part of its mission. The post Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Says She Hopes It Keeps up Election Work Under Trump appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been signed into law and it authorizes several cyber-related initiatives. The post 2025 NDAA Provides $3 Billion Funding for FCC’s Rip-and-Replace Program appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” but deploy a backdoor instead. WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a variant of another campaign observed in December 2023 that employed a fake CVE ploy to…
Naomi Diaz reports: Colfax,Wash.-based Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics’ internal electronic systems are down following a cyberattack. “If you have an appointment at the hospital or any of our clinics on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, please understand there may be delays, however, we remain open and here to care for you,” the hospital wrote in a March…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that has captured much of the artificial intelligence (AI) buzz in recent days, said it’s restricting registrations on the service, citing malicious attacks. “Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continued service,” the company said in an incident report page. “Existing users…
