Ransomware is not a new phenomenon, yet 2020 witnessed digital extortion mutating into a beast that can impact everyone and even have the capacity to take human life.
One of Europe's top five insurers has said it will stop reimbursing people in France who pay up after being targeted by cybercriminals with ransomware.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of current and former employees and their beneficiaries.
A researcher is claiming that the credit scores of almost every American were exposed through an API tool used by the Experian credit bureau, that he said was left open on a lender site without even basic security protections.
Nowadays (personal) data is amazingly powerful and very dangerous when it leaks, difficult to clean up and there are serious consequences when it goes wrong.
Days after scraped data from more than a billion Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, collectively speaking, was put for sale online, it looks like now it’s Clubhouse’s turn.
One of the largest insurance firms in the U.S. CNA Financial was reportedly hit by a “sophisticated cybersecurity attack” on March 21, 2021. The cyber attack disrupted the company’s employee and customer services for three days as the company shut down “out of an abundance of caution” to prevent further compromise.
The European Commission and several other European Union organizations were hit by a cyberattack in March, according to a European Commission spokesperson.
