Ex-NSA employee sentenced to 262 months for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia

A former U.S. NSA employee has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to sell classified documents to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke (32), of Colorado Springs,... Read more »

A flaw in the R programming language could allow code execution

A flaw in the R programming language enables the execution of arbitrary code when parsing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-27322 (CVSS v3: 8.8), in the... Read more »

Muddling Meerkat, a mysterious DNS Operation involving China’s Great Firewall

The China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat are manipulating DNS to probe networks globally since 2019. Infoblox researchers observed China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat using sophisticated DNS activities since 2019 to bypass... Read more »

Notorious Finnish Hacker sentenced to more than six years in prison

Finnish hacker was sentenced to more than six years in prison for hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic and attempted extortion. A popular 26-year-old Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki was... Read more »

CISA guidelines to protect critical infrastructure against AI-based threats

The US government’s cybersecurity agency CISA published a series of guidelines to protect critical infrastructure against AI-based attacks. CISA collaborated with Sector Risk Management Agencies (SRMAs) and regulatory agencies... Read more »

NCSC: New UK law bans default passwords on smart devices

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) orders smart device manufacturers to ban default passwords starting from April 29, 2024. The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging... Read more »

The FCC imposes $200 million in fines on four US carriers for unlawfully sharing user location data

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers $200 million for sharing customers’ real-time location data without consent. The FCC has fined four major U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200... Read more »

Google prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play in 2023

Google announced they have prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being published in the official Google Play. Google announced that in 2023, they have prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps... Read more »

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) data breach impacted 2M individuals

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) suffered a data breach that exposed information 2 million individuals. Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) disclosed a data breach... Read more »

Cyber-Partisans hacktivists claim to have breached Belarus KGB

A Belarusian group of activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main KGB agency. The Belarusian hacktivist group Cyber-Partisans claims to have infiltrated the network... Read more »
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