Alex Ebert reports: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr should pay millions of dollars in damages for loss of clients’ personal information in a May data breach, a putative class action claims. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks negligence and contract damages on behalf of “thousands” of…
OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from Southeast Asia and operating from the city of Poipet, a…
Close to $500 million in cryptocurrency from over 332,000 addresses was stolen in 2024 using wallet drainer malware. The post Wallet Drainer Malware Used to Steal $500 Million in Cryptocurrency in 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…
When an unfounded legal threat comes from someone in your own community, it seems especially offensive and disappointing. In this case, a security journalist received a legal threat from a cybersecurity news site. When SuspectFile journalist Marco A. De Felice was sent a superinjunction from the High Court in the U.K. in response to his……
It’s common for victims and threat actors to disagree sharply over the scope of an attack or its significance. Today’s example involves Israeli fintech Nayax and a group called The Syndicate. In previous coverage, DataBreaches cited Nayax’s submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission. At the time, Nayax reported an incident involving an unnamed subsidiary,……
A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that took the money calls itself Kairos, but it may not be…
