The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will mandate Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the firm from selling customers’ web surfing data or licensing it for advertising. The case alleges that Avast infringed upon the rights of millions of consumers by gathering, retaining, and ...
The LockBit gang is restarting its ransomware operation using a new infrastructure shortly after law enforcement breached their servers. They are now indicating a potential increase in attacks targeting the government sector. The group sent a detailed message in a fake FBI leak to highligh...
MongoDB has issued a warning stating that its corporate systems were compromised in a cyberattack, resulting in the exposure of client data. The firm noticed this breach earlier this week. MongoDB clients received emails from CISO Lena Smart, informing them that the firm detected a securit...
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has accumulated over $300 million in extortion payments from over 1,000 victims globally as of September 2023. The FBI states that ALPHV Blackcat affiliates has vast networks and expertise in conduc...
Arion Kurtaj, a member of the cybercrime and extortion group Lapsus$, has been sentenced to an indeterminate period of confinement in a secure hospital by a judge in the United Kingdom. Kurtaj, an 18-year-old individual with autism, is one of the main Lapsus$ threat actors and was implicat...
