cybersecurity

PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted

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Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being extorted by someone who said the data was not destroyed. PowerSchool, which provides its K-12 software to thousands of schools to support 60 million […]

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VC firm Insight Partners confirms personal data stolen during January hack

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Venture capital firm Insight Partners said it will alert an unspecified number of people that their personal information was stolen during a cyberattack in January. The VC firm confirmed in an updated statement this week it was planning to notify affected people on a rolling basis beginning “in the next few days.” The company said

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NSO Group must pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for spyware campaign

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Spyware maker NSO Group will have to pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for a 2019 hacking campaign against more than 1,400 users. On Tuesday, after a five-year legal battle, a jury ruled that NSO Group must pay $167,256,000 in punitive damages and around $444,719 in compensatory damages. This is a huge

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GlobalX, airline used for Trump deportations, gets hacked: report

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GlobalX, an airline used by the Trump administration as part of its massive deportation campaign, has reportedly been hacked. On Monday, 404 Media first reported news of the breach, based on a defacement message on the airline’s official website and stolen data that the hackers shared with the news website.  “Anonymous has decided to enforce

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Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information

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A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private locations data of its users, TechCrunch has found. The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, dating and sexual preferences associated with the Raw app, as well as users’ location. Some of the location data included coordinates that were

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Apple notifies new victims of spyware attacks across the world

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Apple sent notifications this week to several people who the company believes were targeted with government spyware, according to two of the alleged targets.  In the past, Apple has sent similar notifications to targets and victims of spyware, and directed them to contact a nonprofit that specializes in investigating such cyberattacks. Other tech companies, like

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UK retail giant Co-op warns of disruption as it battles cyberattack

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U.K. retail conglomerate The Co-operative Group said it has shut down some of its IT systems, citing an attempted cyberattack. Co-op spokesperson Mark Carrington said the company “recently experienced attempts” by hackers to break into some of its systems, and took “proactive steps” to keep those systems safe. The spokesperson said the company’s back office

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Government hackers are leading the use of attributed zero-days, Google says

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Hackers working for governments were responsible for the majority of attributed zero-day exploits used in real-world cyberattacks last year, per new research from Google. Google’s report said that the number of zero-day exploits — referring to security flaws that were unknown to the software makers at the time hackers abused them — had dropped from

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Citizen Lab say exiled Uyghur leaders targeted with Windows spyware

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Unknown hackers last month targeted leaders of the exiled Uyghur community in a campaign involving Windows spyware, researchers revealed Monday.  Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group based at the University of Toronto, detailed an espionage campaign against members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an organization that represents the Muslim-minority group, which has for

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