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FTC Slams Phone Companies With Fines For Illegally Selling Data
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) slammed major wireless carriers with hefty fines for illegally selling customer data.
Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint are facing roughly $200 million in fines for selling customer data wit...
Japanese Police Use Fake Gift Cards To Battle Support Scammers
Japanese police are faking fake gift cards in various convenience stores around the Fukui prefecture to help find and stop scammers.
The Echizen Police are deploying these dummy cards to counter two of the most common online scams...
Okta Flags Major Increase in Anonymizer-Based Stuffing Attacks
Identity and access management services provider Okta reported a surge in credential stuffing attacks aimed at online services via anonymizers like residential proxies and The Onion Router (Tor) network.
In credential stuffing att...
PIA Completes Security Audit & Rolls Out Update for Android App
Private Internet Access (PIA) announced it recently had its no-logs policy audited by a third-party cybersecurity firm. It’s also released a new version of its Android app, featuring a redesign and updates to the app’s underlying...
Ransomware Attacks Increased 67% in 2023
The number of ransomware cyberattacks and similar online extortion schemes soared 67% worldwide from 2022 to 2023, according to a new report released by cybersecurity firm NTT Security Holdings in April.
The company’s 2024 Global...
UK Introduces New Cybersecurity Laws
The UK signed new consumer protection laws into effect earlier this week. They are designed to protect against hackers and other cybersecurity concerns.
The new laws introduce a set of minimal cybersecurity standards that UK compa...
Georgia County Involved in Trump Election Case Hit by Cyberattack
Georgia’s Coffee County Board of Commissioners discovered in late April that a malicious actor had infiltrated the county’s IT systems. The county found the breach after the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CIS...
Personal Information of US Veterans Exposed in Data Leak
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough said on April 25 that the personally identifiable information (PII) of 15 million US veterans may have been compromised in the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare. McDonough r...
Autodesk Drive Used in Microsoft Phishing Scams
A new phishing campaign is targeting corporate users via compromised email accounts to distribute PDF files hosted on Autodesk Drive, according to cybersecurity firm Netcraft.
In the incidents reported, hackers sent out phishing e...
Chinese Spies Hacked a Belgian Parliament Member’s Laptop
The laptop of Els Van Hoof, the chairperson of the Belgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, was hacked by Chinese spies back in 2021, she revealed in a recent interview.
She discovered the cyber attack on her laptop 3 years...