For the last few years, the Polish government under Donald Tusk has been investigating the use — and alleged abuse — of Pegasus phone spyware by the previous government. On Monday, the former head of Poland’s internal security agency Piotr Pogonowski was arrested and forcibly taken to testify before parliament, as part of the current […]
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Signzy, a popular vendor offering online “know your customer” ID verification and customer onboarding services to several top financial institutions, commercial banks, and fintech companies, has confirmed a security incident. The Bengaluru-based startup, which serves over 600 financial institutions globally — including the four largest Indian banks, was hit by a cyberattack last week, according
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The Russian government has confirmed the indictment of a 32-year-old resident, who authorities accuse of creating and launching ransomware attacks. Russian prosecutors said last week that they charged the unnamed hacker, who lives in the Russian province of Kaliningrad, with the creation of ransomware to gain “illegal profit.” The arrest of a suspected ransomware member
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In November, we broke the news on how cybersecurity startup Upwind was getting a lot of inbound interest to raise money on a big valuation. Now, we can confirm that the deal is done: Upwind has closed a Series A of $100 million. The company confirmed that the round values it at $900 million post-money.
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A ransomware attack on supply chain software giant Blue Yonder continues to cause disruption to the company’s customers, almost two weeks after the outage first began. In a brief update to its cybersecurity incident page on Sunday, Arizona-based Blue Yonder said it is making “good progress” in its recovery from the attack, which hit its
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There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s understandable if you want to consider your options when it comes to where you store your private data and records of your everyday activities. Fortunately, not every service out there is trying
A venture capitalist, a recruiter from a big company, and a newly hired remote IT worker might not seem to have much in common, but all have been caught as imposters secretly working for the North Korean regime, according to security researchers. On Friday at Cyberwarcon, an annual conference in Washington DC focused on disruptive
European investigators are saying that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully dragged its anchor in order to slash through two critical data cables, according to the The Wall Street Journal. The Chinese ship had recently departed from Russia carrying Russian fertilizer when it crossed the Baltic Sea. Investigators say the alleged attack may have been orchestrated
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U.S. phone giant T-Mobile said Wednesday that hackers had “no access” to its customers’ calls, text messages, and voicemails during an ongoing industry-wide cyberattack targeting internet and phone companies. T-Mobile’s chief security officer, Jeff Simon, said in a statement that the company detected in recent weeks “attempts to infiltrate our systems,” which Simon said originated
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Security researchers have uncovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by RomCom, a Russian-linked hacking group, to target Firefox browser users and Windows device owners across Europe and North America. RomCom is a cybercrime group that is known to carry out cyberattacks and other digital intrusions for the Russian government. The
