In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had penetrated the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN devices to dozens of companies and government agencies around the world, according to new reports from Bloomberg. Hackers exploited a secret backdoor they placed in Pulse Secure’s VPN software, Bloomberg reported, … Read more
Def Con, one of the world’s largest and longest-running hacker conferences, announced Wednesday that three people associated with Jeffrey Epstein are no longer allowed to attend. The conference justified adding Pablos Holman, Vincenzo Iozzo and Joichi Ito to its public blacklist, saying the three appeared in the latest release of Justice Department documents related to … Read more
Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, has confirmed that there has been a data breach. On Friday, Figure spokeswoman Alethea Jadick told TechCrunch in a statement that the breach occurred when an employee was tricked into using a social engineering attack that allowed hackers to steal a “limited number of files.” The statement said the … Read more
Sex toy maker Tenga notified customers of the data breach on Friday, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch. In the report, the Japanese company said that “an unauthorized party gained access to the professional email account of one of our employees,” which allowed the hacker to access the contents of the employee’s email inbox. … Read more
The Norwegian government has accused a Chinese hacking group known as Salt Typhoon of breaking into several organizations in the country. In a report released on Friday, Norway’s police security service said a hacking group believed to be working for the Chinese government had targeted vulnerable network devices to carry out espionage. Norway is the … Read more
The computer systems of La Sapienza in Rome, one of Europe’s largest universities with around 120,000 students, were down for three days after an apparent ransomware attack. In a post and Instagram stories published on Tuesday, the university said it had taken down its systems as a precaution following the cyber attack, that it was … Read more
A notorious hacking group has claimed responsibility for last year’s data breaches at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), releasing data it allegedly stole from both schools. On Wednesday, a group known as ShinyHunters released what it claims are more than 1 million records from every university on a dedicated leak site used … Read more