cybersecurity

Kasperksy says it’s closing down its UK office and laying off dozens

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Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky is shutting down its office in the United Kingdom and laying off its staff, just three months after the company started closing down its U.S. operations and laying off dozens of workers, TechCrunch has learned.  Kaspersky spokesperson Francesco Tius said in an email to TechCrunch that the company “will commence a […]

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MoneyGram says hackers stole customers’ personal information and transaction data

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U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers’ personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month. The company said in a statement Monday that an unauthorized third party “accessed and acquired” customer data during the cyberattack on September 20. The cyberattack — the nature of which remains unknown —

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The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite

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News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers, likely in an effort to gather intelligence on Americans. The wiretap systems, as mandated under a 30-year-old U.S. federal law, are some of the most sensitive in a telecom or internet provider’s network, typically granting a

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Apple fixes bugs in macOS Sequoia that broke some cybersecurity tools

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In September, Apple released the new version of its computer operating system macOS 15, also known as Sequoia, which broke the functionality of several cybersecurity products, including those made by CrowdStrike and Microsoft.  Three weeks later, on Friday, Apple released the first update to macOS 15, and it claims to have fixed those issues. In

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American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems

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U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week.  American Water, which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across the United States, confirmed the security incident in an 8-K regulatory filing with the U.S.

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Comcast says customer data stolen in ransomware attack on debt collection agency

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U.S. telecom giant Comcast has warned that cybercriminals stole the personal data of more than 230,000 customers during a ransomware attack on a third-party provider of debt collection services. The breach relates to a February cyberattack on Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a Pennsylvania-based debt collection agency used by Comcast.  In a filing with

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CISA issues warning about another Ivanti flaw under active attack

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Hackers are exploiting yet another vulnerability in one of Ivanti’s widely used enterprise products, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA warned in a fresh alert this week. The remote code execution flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM), a tool that helps organizations manage and secure their fleets of employee devices, was first disclosed by Trend

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News agency AFP notifies French authorities of potential data breach

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Agence France-Presse, one of the world’s largest news organizations, has notified French regulators of a potential data breach following a cyberattack last week. The AFP, which has an editorial presence in 260 cities across 150 countries, said in a brief statement on Saturday that it detected an “attack on its systems” that affected part of

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How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death

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In the early hours on January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registry System from out of state to certify the death of a man named Jesse Kipf. The death certificate listed the cause as “acute respiratory distress syndrome” due to COVID-19 a week earlier. And with that, Kipf

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