Security

Tata Technologies says ransomware attack hit IT assets, investigation ongoing

Tata Technologies, a technology and product engineering service company owned by Indian conglomerate Tata Group, has disclosed a ransomware attack that has forced it to suspend some of its services. The Pune-headquartered company said Friday that the incident affected “a few of our IT assets” while its client delivery services “remained fully functional and unaffected

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WhatsApp says it disrupted a hacking campaign targeting journalists with Paragon spyware

WhatsApp said on Friday that it had disrupted a hacking campaign that targeted around 90 users, including journalists and members of civil society.  A WhatsApp spokesperson told TechCrunch that the campaign was linked to Paragon, an Israeli spyware maker that was acquired in December of last year by American private equity giant AE Industrial Partners.

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US nonprofit healthcare provider says hackers stole medical and personal data of 1M+ patients

Community Health Center (CHC), a Connecticut-based nonprofit healthcare provider, has confirmed that hackers accessed the sensitive data of more than a million patients. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Thursday, CHC said it detected suspicious activity on its network on 2 January and determined that a “skilled criminal hacker” had accessed its network

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AngelSense exposed location data and personal information of tracked users

AngelSense, an assistive technology company that provides location monitoring devices for people with disabilities, was spilling the personally identifiable information and precise location data of its users to the open internet, TechCrunch has learned. The company secured the exposed server on Monday, more than a week after it was alerted to the data leak by

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US Justice Department says cybercrime forum allegedly affected 17 million Americans

On Thursday, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies from Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United States took down and seized two prominent hacking forums and two other related cybercriminal services.  After the takedown operations were revealed by Europol and Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice published

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International police coalition takes down two prolific cybercrime and hacking forums

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies took down two hacking forums that had more than 10 million users, according to Europol, one of the agencies involved in the operation.  On Thursday, Europol and Germany’s police the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) announced the seizures of Cracked and Nulled. The BKA called them “the world’s two largest trading

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Backline automatically remediates security vulnerabilities

Backline, a new security startup that uses AI agents to automatically remediate security vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth with a $9 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures. This is the third startup by Maor Goldberg, the company’s co-founder and CEO. He previously co-founded Whitebox Security, which he sold to SailPoint in 2015, as

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DeepSeek exposed internal database containing chat histories and sensitive data

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has fixed an exposed back-end database that was spilling sensitive information, including user chat histories and API keys, to the open internet. The DeepSeek database was not protected with a password, allowing anyone on the internet to access more than a million unencrypted logs inside.  Security researchers at cloud giant Wiz

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