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Ransomware attacks fell by 50% in Q1 2021 as threat actors shifted from using mass spread campaigns to focusing on fewer, larger targets with unique samples, according to the McAfee Threats Report: June 2021. The researchers noted that the traditional approach of using one form of ransomware to...

Google Chrome users will have to wait until at least 2023 before third party cookies are blocked as part of the browser's Privacy Sandbox initiative. Google had first disclosed its plans to block third party cookies, which advertisers and marketers use to track users, in August 2019. In January...

A linguist employed by the US Department of Defense has been sent to prison for more than two decades for leaking the identities of American spies to a lover with ties to a foreign terrorist organization. Mariam Taha Thompson was charged in March 2020 with sharing highly sensitive classified...

Personal information belonging to job seekers residing in the Mountain State may have been exposed during a security incident at WorkForce West Virginia. The breach was confirmed yesterday by West Virginia governor Jim Justice, who addressed the incident during a press conference held earlier...

A man has been found guilty of cyber-stalking his former girlfriend in an attempt to prevent her husband from being elected to the Nebraska Legislature. Forty-eight-year-old Nebraskan Dennis Sryniawski obtained a sexually explicit photograph of La Vista resident Dianne Parris with her consent...

A misconfigured cloud database exposed over 800 million records linked to WordPress users before its owner was notified, according to Website Planet. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler explained that the trove was left online with no password protection by US hosting provider DreamHost. The...

Security researchers have warned that at least 30 million Dell computers may be at risk after discovering multiple vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code within the machines’ BIOS. Security vendor Eclypsium said 129 Dell models were affected by the chain of four...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched an ambitious initiative to fix one million vulnerabilities and, as a result, reduce technical debt by over $100 million. The cloud giant’s principal evangelist, Martin Beeby, said its new AWS BugBust would take the idea of a bug bash to a new level. “AWS...

A trade watchdog in the United Kingdom is launching an investigation into what the world's largest e-tailers are doing to combat fake reviews on their platforms. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced earlier today that it has opened a formal probe into Amazon and Google over...

A high-level member of the notorious organized cybercrime group FIN7 is to spend the next seven years in an American prison. Hacker Andrii Kolpakov was an active member of FIN7 from at least April 2016 until his arrest in Lepe, Spain, on June 28, 2018. The 33-year-old Ukrainian national, who...

In the United States, young adults are more than twice as likely as older Americans to cyber-stalk their current or former romantic partners. New research by NortonLifeLock found three in five Gen Z and Millennial American adults who have been in a romantic relationship (60% of those ages 18 to...

Former health secretary Matt Hancock is facing further pressure this week after Labour called for an investigation into his alleged use of personal email to conduct official government business. Hancock was forced to resign after CCTV footage leaked last week showed the married Tory MP in a...

One of the world’s largest cruise ship operators has disclosed a data breach from mid-March, impacting an unspecified number of customers, employees, and crew. Carnival Corporation runs many of the globe’s leading cruise lines, including P&O, Cunard and Carnival Cruise Line. According to a...

Enterprising cyber-criminals have found a way to create convincing phishing emails which abuse Google Docs and Drive functionality to bypass security filters, according to Avanan. Researchers at the email security vendor claimed this is the first time such techniques have been used to piggyback...

Infosecurity Europe has announced that it is postponing the live event due to run at London Olympia in July, following the government’s delay in lifting the final COVID-19 restrictions. Infosecurity Europe will instead deliver a virtual exhibition and conference from 13-15 July 2021, the...

Google has proposed a new framework to mitigate the growing risks posed by attacks on the software supply chain. The Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA, pronounced “salsa”) is designed to ensure the integrity of software artifacts across the entire supply chain. It’s based on...

The Centennial State has unanimously passed a new data privacy act to safeguard Coloradoans' personal information. On June 8, the state Senate approved the Colorado Privacy Act after a series of revisions were made. The Act is due to take effect on July 1, 2023, and now awaits the signature of...

A councilor from New Jersey has been arrested and charged with waging a campaign of cyber-harassment against a former girlfriend. Detectives from the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, with the assistance of detectives from the Middle Township Police Department, launched an investigation...

A man from Texas could be facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to blow up a data center in Virginia. Seth Aaron Pendley, of Wichita Falls, was arrested in April after trying to purchase what he believed to be an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in...

A gang of Nigerian cyber-criminals has shared a step-by-step guide detailing how to commit unemployment identity fraud in the Lone Star State, according to CBS News. Organized cybercrime group Scattered Canary is already suspected of making millions defrauding the states of Hawaii, Florida...