A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year, federal officials told The Associated Press Friday. Lawmakers are now calling for the federal agency that oversees the program to prevent future attacks. “On December 1, the voice calling functionality of the 988 Lifeline was rendered unavailable ..
Tag : Cybercrime
Former Ubiquiti employee Nickolas Sharp has admitted in court to abusing company-provided credentials to steal data and then attempting to extort the company, the Department of Justice announced. Sharp, 37, of Portland, Oregon, worked at the New York City-based IoT device maker between August 2018 and April 2021, as a senior developer who had access ..
Oggetto del processo di digital forensics è l’identificazione, la raccolta, l’acquisizione, l’analisi e la valutazione delle digital evidence[1]. Più propriamente con la terminologia digital evidence – traducibile in italiano con “evidenza digitale”[2], “prova informatica”[3] o “prova elettronica”[4] – si fa riferimento a «quelle informazioni memorizzate in strumenti informatici, come le postazioni di lavoro degli utenti, ..
About SecurityWeek Cyber Insights | At the end of 2022, SecurityWeek liaised with more than 300 cybersecurity experts from over 100 different organizations to gain insight into the security issues of today – and how these issues might evolve during 2023 and beyond. The result is more than a dozen features on subjects ranging from AI, quantum ..
About SecurityWeek Cyber Insights | At the end of 2022, SecurityWeek liaised with more than 300 cybersecurity experts from over 100 different organizations to gain insight into the security issues of today – and how these issues might evolve during 2023 and beyond. The result is more than a dozen features on subjects ranging from AI, quantum ..
Le ramificazioni del crimine informatico e i loro effetti su persone ed economie non sono mai apparsi così estesi. Se il 2022 si è chiuso con numerosi bilanci allarmanti circa la crescita delle minacce informatiche, è in verità da oltre un decennio che il perfezionamento delle tecnologie e la crescente diffusione di gruppi organizzati – ..
A sophisticated ad fraud scheme that spoofed over 1,700 applications and 120 publishers peaked at 12 billion ad requests per day before being taken down, bot attack prevention firm Human says. Dubbed VastFlux, the scheme relied on JavaScript code injected into digital ad creatives, which resulted in fake ads being stacked behind one another to ..
Online payments system PayPal is alerting roughly 35,000 individuals that their accounts have been targeted in a credential stuffing campaign. “On December 20, 2022, we confirmed that unauthorized parties were able to access your PayPal customer account using your login credentials,” the company said in the notification letter sent to the impacted individuals. According to ..
Cybercriminals earned significantly less from ransomware attacks in 2022 compared to 2021 as victims are increasingly refusing to pay ransom demands, according to data from Chainalysis. A report published by the blockchain data company on Thursday shows that the cryptocurrency addresses known to have been used by ransomware groups received a total of $457 million ..
A ransomware attack forced the parent company of KFC and Taco Bell to close several hundred restaurants in the United Kingdom this week. A government filing posted Thursday says the attack impacted information technology systems. Yum Brands said the attackers took company data, but that there is no evidence customer data was stolen. Around 300 ..
