A security researcher discovered a Bangladesh government web portal that exposed the personal information of about 50 million citizens, including their birth registration records, phone numbers and national identity numbers. His efforts to notify the government of the security flaw went unanswered.
Francisco Partners plans to split Forcepoint's government and commercial security practices, selling the former to TPG for $2.45 billion. The deal represents an impressive return on investment for Francisco Partners, which bought all of Forcepoint from Raytheon in January 2021 for just $1.1 billion.
Hacking incidents, including those involving ransomware attacks or vendors, that affect tens of millions of individuals, continue to account for the majority of health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year. What are the other emerging breach trends?
The French government is pursuing a new law that will grant the country's law enforcement agencies sweeping power to snoop on suspected cybercriminals and other online miscreants by remotely accessing their phones and computers. The measure is now headed to the French National Assembly.
The personal information of nearly 35 million Indonesian passport holders is up for sale on the dark web for $10,000 by notorious hacktivist Bjorka, who routinely criticizes the Indonesian government, publishing damaging information about lawmakers on social media. The government is investigating.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at ISMG discuss highlights from recent ISMG events, the winners and losers in Forrester's first-ever network analysis and visibility rankings, and the ongoing tech trade war between the U.S. and China and its impact on the global supply chain.
Ransomware continues to be the biggest threat to the European healthcare sector, but the region also is experiencing an uptick in distributed denial-of-service attacks tied to hacktivist groups, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity warned.
A ransomware attack in May that and compromised the sensitive information of 319,500 individuals, including addiction treatment center patient data, has so far generated three proposed federal class action lawsuits against the Pennsylvania real estate firm that owns the medical group.
International law enforcement agencies say they arrested the mastermind of a French-speaking cybercriminal syndicate dubbed Opera1er for carrying out more than 30 successful attacks against financial institutions, banks, mobile banking services and telecommunications companies.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the digital assets world. This week, a Poly Network hacker stole $10 million, Belarus mulled banning P2P crypto payments, the Ethereum community proposed a new security standard and Russia raised $20 million in crypto.
A Chinese nation-state group is hacking foreign affairs ministries and embassies across Europe, employing a sophisticated HTML-smuggling technique to deliver the insidious PlugX remote access Trojan to compromised systems. The technique raises concern about the security of diplomatic institutions.
A hacker suspected to be based in Mexico is targeting financial institutions using "relatively unsophisticated" tools but is achieving a high degree of success among banking customers, SentinelOne said. The threat actor also offers smishing as a service.
Experts believe China's revised Counter-Espionage Law gives the Chinese Communist Party the power to retaliate against Western financial and technological sanctions and also control rising discontent among Chinese citizens. The law went into effect on Saturday.
A Tennessee medical clinic and surgical center is notifying more than half a million patients and employees that their personal information may have been stolen by cybercriminals in an April cyberattack that disrupted healthcare services for several days.
Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K. government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. In an open letter, they said the bill is "doomed to fail."
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