cyberattacks

US charges Russian civilian for allegedly helping GRU spies target Ukrainian government systems with data-destroying malware

The Department of Justice has charged a Russian civilian with conspiracy to destroy Ukrainian government computer systems as part of a widespread hacking effort by Russia ahead of its illegal invasion of Ukraine.  U.S. prosecutors in Maryland said Wednesday that Amin Stigal, 22, is wanted for helping to set up servers used by Russian government […]

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Car dealership outages drag on after CDK cyberattacks

Software maker CDK says it will take “several days” to bring its systems back online following back-to-back cyberattacks, as car dealerships and auto shops around the U.S. reliant on the company’s software enter a second week of disruption. In a statement, CDK spokesperson Lisa Finney confirmed that the company has “begun the restoration process” of

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US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia 

The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus in the country, and is asking Americans who use the software to switch to a different provider. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said it imposed the “first of its kind” ban, arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national

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What Snowflake isn’t saying about its customer data breaches

Snowflake’s security problems following a recent spate of customer data thefts are, for want of a better word, snowballing. After Ticketmaster was the first company to link its recent data breach to the cloud data company Snowflake, loan comparison site LendingTree has now confirmed its QuoteWizard subsidiary had data stolen from Snowflake. “We can confirm

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