The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments to Regulation S-P that require certain financial institutions to disclose data breach incidents to impacted individuals within 30 days of discovery. […]
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Alexey Pertsev, one of the main developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency tumbler has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for his part in helping launder more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency. […]
Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for his involvement in the REvil ransomware operation. […]
A former cybersecurity consultant was arrested for allegedly attempting to extort a publicly traded IT company by threatening to disclose confidential and proprietary data unless they paid him $1,500,000. […]
The LabHost phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has been disrupted in a year-long global law enforcement operation that compromised the infrastructure and arrested 37 suspects, among them the original developer. […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest and indictment of Charles O. Parks III, known as “CP3O,” for allegedly renting large numbers of cloud servers to conduct crypto mining and then skipping out on paying the bills. […]
A joint police operation between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the FBI has led to the arrest and charging of two individuals who are believed to be behind the development and distribution of the “Firebird” remote access trojan (RAT), later rebranded as “Hive.” […]
AT&T is facing multiple class-action lawsuits following the company’s admission to a massive data breach that exposed the sensitive data of 73 million current and former customers. […]
Google has agreed to delete billions of data records collected from 136 million Chrome users in the United States, as part of a lawsuit settlement regarding alleged undisclosed browser data collection while in Incognito mode. […]
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has announced the indictment of six suspected “hacking group” members for using malware to steal credit card and payment information from foreign online stores. […]