Data on more than 33 million people in France, approximately half the population, was compromised in a cyberattack at the end of January, according to the country’s privacy watchdog. The Commission ...

Google will pay $350 million to settle a long-running class action lawsuit focused on how a security glitch in its now defunct Google Plus social media platform exposed millions of its users’ data to ...

Editor’s Note: Late last year, cybersecurity researchers began to notice a ransomware strain called ALPHV that stood out for being particularly sophisticated and coded in the Rust programming language ...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Americans lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, a number that has been exponentially increasing since 2018 when the agency first ...

In the two months since Russia-linked hackers attacked Ukraine’s largest telecom operator, many questions have emerged about how they gained access to the company's systems and lingered there, likely ...

A network of healthcare facilities across California reported a data breach last week after suffering from a ransomware attack in December. Some of the medical groups within the Heritage Provider ...

A Canadian man who worked as an "affiliate" for the NetWalker ransomware gang was sentenced last week to seven years in prison for his crimes. The suspect, Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, pleaded guilty ...

A controversial Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order forcing Meta to no longer monetize kids’ data — which Meta is suing to overturn — exemplifies why fines are not enough when it comes to reining in ...

Companies, individuals and other victims of ransomware attacks paid hackers more than $1.1 billion in 2023 in exchange for unlocking their data, according to new research. Chainalysis — a blockchain ...

In one of the most impactful changes made in recent years, Microsoft has announced today that it will block by default the execution of VBA macro scripts inside five Office applications. Starting with ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it helped dozens of hospitals respond to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incidents last week that were launched by a ...