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How a series of opsec failures led US authorities to the alleged developer of the Redline password-stealing malware

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U.S. prosecutors have charged Russian national Maxim Rudometov over his alleged involvement in developing and distributing the notorious Redline password-stealing malware. The charges were announced as part of “Operation Magnus,” first unveiled by the Dutch National Police on Monday. This years-in-the-making operation saw international law enforcement agencies dismantle the infrastructure of Redline and Meta, two […]

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You’re going to get hacked. But here’s how to avoid a cybersecurity disaster

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Cyberattacks are inevitable, but disasters are avoidable.Listen as experienced security defenders Heather Gantt-Evans, CISO of Marqeta, and Darren Gruber, MongoDB’s Technical Advisor in the Office of Security and Trust, discuss what you need to know to get ahead of cyberattackers before they strike. Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: http://tcrn.ch/instagram TikTok:

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MoneyGram replaces CEO weeks after massive customer data breach

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Money transfer giant MoneyGram has replaced its chief executive less than a month after confirming that hackers stole reams of customers’ personal information and transaction records in a data breach. In a statement Monday, MoneyGram said it appointed Anthony Soohoo as the company’s chief executive with immediate effect. Soohoo replaces Alex Holmes, who joined MoneyGram

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2024 Startup Battlefield Top 20 Finalists: DGLegacy

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Wiz CEO says company was targeted with deepfake attack that used his voice

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Even cybersecurity companies aren’t safe from deepfake attacks. Speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wiz’s CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport, who recently turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, noted that his employees had been targeted by a deepfake attack just two weeks ago. “Dozens of my employees got a

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Police operation claims takedown of prolific Redline and Meta password stealers

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A coalition of international law enforcement agencies say they have disrupted the operations of two prolific infostealers that stole the sensitive data of millions of people.  The Dutch National Police, who led the so-called “Operation Magnus” takedown, reports it gained “full access” to the servers used by the Redline and Meta infostealers.  Infostealers are a

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How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

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A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data breach, a “substantial proportion of people living in America” are receiving notice by mail that their personal and health information

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UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare data breach affects over 100 million people in America

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More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector. This is the first time that UnitedHealth Group, the U.S. health insurance provider that owns the health tech company,

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