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Verizon Communications has agreed to pay a $16,000,000 settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. concerning three data breach incidents at its wholly-owned subsidiary, TracFone Wireless, suffered after its acquisition in 2021. TracFone is a telecommunications service provider offering services through Total by Verizon Wireless, Straight Talk, and Walmart Family Mobile, among…

CrowdStrike is warning that a fake recovery manual to repair Windows devices is installing a new information-stealing malware called Daolpu. Since Friday, when the buggy CrowdStrike Falcon update caused global IT outages, threat actors have quickly begun to capitalize on the news to deliver malware through fake fixes. A new campaign conducted through phishing emails…

On July 19, 2024, a routine software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike triggered a cascading failure that resulted in one of the largest IT outages in history. This incident affected thousands of businesses and organizations worldwide, causing widespread disruptions across various sectors including aviation, banking, healthcare, and government services. July 19, 2024, 04:09 UTC: CrowdStrike…

Google has scrapped its plan to kill third-party cookies in Chrome and will instead introduce a new browser experience that allows users to limit how these cookies are used. A third-party cookie is data stored in your web browser by a website other than the website you are currently visiting and is usually dropped by…

The Land Registry agency in Greece has announced that it suffered a limited-scope data breach following a wave of 400 cyberattacks targeting its IT infrastructure over the last week. The agency said hackers managed to compromise employee terminals and steal 1.2 GB of data, corresponding to roughly 0.0006% of the total data held by the…

In today’s fast-paced organizations, end-users will sometimes try to take a shortcut. We’ve all been there — rushing to meet a deadline, juggling multiple tasks, or just trying to be helpful. But the reality is that letting even well-intentioned actions can come back to bite you. Picture this: an employee innocently lets a family member…

Digital forensics plays a vital role in investigating a wide range of cybercrimes and cybersecurity incidents. This field involves uncovering, analyzing, and interpreting digital evidence to piece together the story behind various cybercrimes, data breaches, and even traditional crimes with digital elements. Digital forensics encompasses several stages, beginning with the collection of evidence from various…

Play ransomware is the latest ransomware gang to start deploying a dedicated Linux locker for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro, whose analysts spotted the new ransomware variant, says the locker is designed to first check whether it’s running in an ESXi environment before executing and that it can evade detection on…

The US government has imposed sanctions on two Russian cybercriminals for cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure. According to a US Treasury press release, the two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR). Pankratova, known online as ‘YuliYA,’ is allegedly the…

The largest trial court in the United States, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, closed all 36 courthouse locations on Monday to restore systems affected by a Friday ransomware attack. The attack, which has not yet been claimed by a ransomware operation, affected the entire network of the Los Angeles Superior Court. This includes…