Cybersecurity

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  14 hours ago

  Hackers are exploiting a new Fortinet firewall bug to breach company networks

  TechCrunch - Carly Page

  Security researchers say malicious hackers have been exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in Fortinet firewalls to break into corporate and enterprise networks. In an advisory published Tuesday, security product maker Fortinet confirmed that a critical-rated vulnerability in its FortiGate …

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  19 hours ago

  DOJ confirms FBI operation that mass-deleted Chinese malware from thousands of US computers

  TechCrunch - Carly Page

  U.S. authorities have confirmed that they disrupted the operations of a Chinese state-backed hacking group, which infiltrated millions of computers worldwide to steal data as part of a years-long espionage campaign. The Department of Justice and the FBI said on Tuesday that they had successfully …

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  22 hours ago

  North Korea stole over $659M in crypto heists during 2024, deployed fake job seekers

  TechCrunch - Manish Singh

  North Korean-backed hackers stole at least $659 million through multiple cryptocurrency heists in 2024, while also deploying IT workers to infiltrate blockchain companies as insider threats, according to Japan, South Korea, and the United States in a rare joint statement (PDF) on Tuesday. The …

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  22 hours ago

  UK plans to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware hackers

  TechCrunch - Carly Page

  U.K. public sector and critical infrastructure organizations could be banned from making ransom payments under new proposals from the U.K. government. The U.K.’s Home Office launched a consultation on Tuesday that proposes a “targeted ban” on ransomware payments. Under the proposal, public sector …

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  1 day ago

  How Barcelona became an unlikely hub for spyware startups

  TechCrunch - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

  Toward the end of 2023, an Israeli security researcher from Tel Aviv said that he was approached on LinkedIn with an opportunity to work abroad with “good pay.” He said that the company’s HR department told him that it was a “legitimate” offensive security company that was starting from scratch in …

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  1 day ago

  A breach of Gravy Analytics’ huge trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions

  TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker

  A hack and data breach at location data broker Gravy Analytics is threatening the privacy of millions of people around the world whose smartphone apps unwittingly revealed their location data collected by the data giant. The full scale of the data breach isn’t yet known, but the alleged hacker has …