Hacking
Biden admin seeks corporate America’s help tracking cyber criminals
US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has a message for corporate America: The US Justice Department needs its help in order to take down cyber criminals.
Coinbase says hackers stole cryptocurrency from at least 6,000 customers
Hackers stole from the accounts of at least 6,000 customers of Coinbase Global Inc, according to a breach notification letter sent by the cryptocurrency exchange to affected custom...
Official: The Biden White House plans a 30-country meeting on cyber crime
Top US national security advisers will gather officials from 30 countries this month with plans to combat the growing threat of ransomware and other cyber crime, President Joe Bide...
Ex-US intelligence operatives in UAE hacking case will cooperate with FBI
Three former US intelligence operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates, agreed to pay fines of $1.685 million and cooperate with federal prosecutors ...
US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The US, UK and and various allies have accused China of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacki...
Microsoft says Israeli group sold tools to hack Windows
An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab has said, shedding light on the growing business of finding and...
Biden orders probe of latest ransomware attack
President Biden has said he has directed US intelligence agencies to investigate who was behind a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses and led t...
Like the Terminator, high-tech cyber crime to ‘keep coming’
Businesses worldwide are fighting sophisticated data scientists as they battle to protect their data-rich computers from cyber crime – and the costly attacks are not going to...
Ransomware gangs disrupted by response to Colonial Pipeline hack
Multiple ransomware groups claimed they were shutting down or scaling back operations last week as the US government ramped up pressure while tech companies, cryptocurrency exchang...
Brief: Five facts about ransomware attacks
A ransomware attack on top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has brought attention to the growing area of cybercrime. This article aims to brief you as to what ransomware...
White House blames Russian spy agency SVR for SolarWinds hack
The Biden-Harris White House has said in a statement that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible for the SolarWinds hack, which led to the c...
SolarWinds says dealing with hack fallout cost at least $18 million
SolarWinds said the sprawling breach stemming from the compromise of its flagship software product has cost the company at least $18 million in the first three months of 2021.
Microsoft could reap more than $150 million in new US cyber spending
Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of COVID relief funds destined for US cybersecurity defenders, sources told journalists, angering some lawmakers who don’t want t...
US government to respond to SolarWinds hackers in weeks
The Biden White House will respond “in weeks, not months” to the perpetrators of the SolarWinds hack, who used the US tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft...