cybersecurity

Chinese government hackers targeted U.S. internet providers with zero-day exploit, researchers say

A group of hackers linked to the Chinese government used a previously unknown vulnerability in software to target U.S. internet service providers, security researchers have found.  The group known as Volt Typhoon was exploiting the zero-day flaw — meaning the software maker was unaware of it before having time to patch — in Versa Director,

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Halliburton shuts down systems after cyberattack

Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week.  In a brief statement filed with government regulators on Thursday, Halliburton said it became aware of unauthorized access to its systems on Wednesday and responded by “proactively taking certain systems offline.” The company

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Ecovacs says it will fix bugs that can be abused to spy on robot owners

Earlier this month, security researchers warned that a series of security flaws in vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs could allow hackers to spy on their owners through the devices’ microphones and cameras.  At the time, Ecovacs told TechCrunch it concluded that the flaws found by the researchers “are extremely rare in typical

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FlightAware warns that some customers’ info has been ‘exposed,’ including Social Security numbers

Flight tracking site FlightAware has blamed a “configuration error” for exposing a raft of personal information of its customers, including some of their Social Security numbers. The company, which claims to be one of the largest aggregators of flight data, said in a notice on its website that it identified the unspecified error on July

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

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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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign.  Since then, we have learned that The New York Times and The Washington Post have also heard from the same person and received some stolen documents.

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Texas firm says it lost $60M in a bank wire transfer scam

Texas-based carbon black company Orion informed investors that it lost $60 million after falling victim to a criminal scheme that resulted in “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties.”  No further specifics were given, but these schemes typically involve fraudsters tricking employees at a company — often in finance

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FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies

FBI’s seizure notice of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware and extortion gang. Image Credits: FBI The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of writing, Radar’s website features a message from law enforcement, reading: “This website has been seized.” It’s a rare win for

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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of

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