A company working on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security sought to cut off online access to information on more than 41,000 employees that hacktivists said they obtained from a database breached at DHS. A search tool for the database, named Icepick, went offline for a spell before coming online again…
Authorities seized the domain of Virtualine , a bulletproof hosting provider that cybercriminals used to commit a large-scale sextortion scheme, ransomware, data theft, malware hosting and money laundering, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Virtualine facilitated prolific criminal activity, including the…
A leak website was published Wednesday, showcasing internal data on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors after it was obtained by hackers who claimed to have breached an identity service used by the agency. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and the hacker…
A Florida judge ruled this week that ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is not liable in a lawsuit brought by a Dominion Voting Systems executive over a film that accuses the former electronic voting hardware and software company executive of saying he “made sure” that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump…
Volt Typhoon, a China-government backed hacking group that has infiltrated America’s critical infrastructure networks for years, has consistently built and dismantled ephemeral malicious infrastructure to burrow into hundreds of sensitive systems undetected, Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs said in a Wednesday…
Prosecutors announced charges against six alleged scammers based out of Africa who targeted Americans with fake non-fungible token (NFT) investment scams by posing as women on dating websites, netting hundreds of victims. According to an affidavit for the arrest of of the six people — Chui Kok Wa, Gislen Neukeu,…
Even OpenAI is admitting there is a lot of AI slop in the security space. An executive for the frontier AI company said Tuesday that AI -generated vulnerability reports are overwhelming open-source maintainers, leading some to stop accepting submissions as the workload exceeds their capacity to review them. Michael…
Anthropic said its AI systems could drastically reshape the software and cybersecurity sectors in the “near term,” while also laying out a litany of cybersecurity and regulatory risks facing the company as it prepares to go public. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of its initial public…
A 36-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a string of ransomware attacks targeting various critical infrastructure operators and businesses from the middle of 2018 to late 2021, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak was involved in…
The Office of the National Cyber Director has rolled out its second regional cyber pilot program, this one focused on rural hospitals. National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross visited South Carolina on Monday to debut the six-month program, Project Lifeline 250, which connects industry with rural hospitals. The concept…
On Oct. 1, threat researchers reported that the China-linked group behind Warlock ransomware, which Microsoft tracks as Storm-2603, had attacked at least four organizations in the prior two months. A water utility and a telecommunications provider were among them, along with a regional government body and a…