Angus Loten reports: A deluge of data-breach lawsuits has a growing number of U.S. judges insisting victims show exactly how their leaked personal data caused “tangible harm,” a high bar that is getting more cases tossed out of court. Judges are also requiring plaintiffs to trace any damages back to a particular breach—a tougher condition…
Ransomware remains the biggest threat, but old and misconfigured network devices are making it too easy
Excelsior Orthopaedics says the information of roughly 357,000 patients and employees was stolen in a June 2024 data breach. The post Excelsior Orthopaedics Data Breach Impacts 357,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster dubbed LongNosedGoblin has been attributed to a series of cyber attacks targeting governmental entities in Southeast Asia and Japan. The end goal of these attacks is cyber espionage, Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said in a report published today. The threat activity cluster has been assessed to be active since…
The US Treasury has sanctioned two individuals and four entities involved in the North Korean fake IT worker scheme. The post US Announces Sanctions Against North Korean Fake IT Worker Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A Chinese national has been arrested in Milan, Italy, for his alleged links to a state-sponsored hacking group known as Silk Typhoon and for carrying out cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies. The 33-year-old, Xu Zewei, has been charged with nine counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to cause damage to and obtain…
Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess, and Lily Hay Newman of WIRED report: Made possible through partnership with ThreatLocker Ransomware gangs, email scammers, state-sponsored spies: hacking groups come in all shapes and sizes. There are some we write about quite a bit here at WIRED, who through some combination of audacity, incompetence, or geopolitical importance—or some combination…
