Tokio Marine Holdings, a multinational insurance holding company in Japan, announced this week that its Singapore branch, Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore (TMiS), suffered a ransomware attack. The announcement came at the beginning of the week …
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A new analysis of a Diavol ransomware sample shows a more clear connection with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet and the evolution of the malware. The recent research is the second one that finds …
Diavol ransomware sample shows stronger connection to TrickBot gang Read More »
T-Mobile on Wednesday said criminals obtained the personal information of almost 49 million current, former, or prospective customers in the latest mega-hack of its servers. The haul includes customers’ first and last names, date of …
Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million accounts Read More »
A report from The Verge today has drawn attention to the way current Windows 11 betas are handling third-party Web browsers like Chrome and Firefox. These tweaks continue a trend that has intensified over Windows …
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Can the masks that we now wear to protect each other from Covid-19 also protect our anonymity, preventing the latest mass facial recognition systems from identifying us? The short answer is ‘no, most probably not’. …
Can a Covid-19 face mask protect you from facial recognition technology too? Read More »
T-Mobile is looking into allegations that a hacker stole 106GB of data containing the social security numbers, names, addresses and driver’s license information for more than 100 million people. In a statement to ZDNet, T-Mobile …
T-Mobile has confirmed that threat actors hacked their servers in a recent cyber attack but still investigate whether customer data was stolen. Yesterday, news broke that a threat actor was selling the alleged personal data …
T-Mobile confirms servers were hacked, investigates data breach Read More »
Dozens of hospitals and clinics in West Virginia and Ohio are canceling surgeries and diverting ambulances following a ransomware attack that has knocked out staff access to IT systems across virtually all of their operations. …
Hospitals hamstrung by ransomware are turning away patients Read More »
Declan Harrington, a Massachusetts man charged two years ago for his alleged involvement in a series of SIM swapping attacks, pleaded guilty to stealing cryptocurrency from multiple victims and hijacking the Instagram account of others. …
SIM swap scammer pleads guilty to Instagram account hijacks, crypto theft Read More »
Destructive attacks that targeted Iran’s transport ministry and national train system were coordinated by a threat actor dubbed Indra, who previously deployed wiper malware on the networks of multiple Syrian organizations. Last month, Iran’s railways and …
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Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, is sending notification letters to individuals affected by the data breach resulting from the DarkSide ransomware attack that hit its network in May. The company …
Colonial Pipeline reports data breach after May ransomware attack Read More »
Computer science boffins have devised a way to prevent the location of mobile phone users from being snarfed and sold to marketers, though the technique won’t affect targeted nation-state surveillance. We solve something that had …