A veteran cybersecurity executive who prosecutors say “betrayed” the United States will spend at least another seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to stealing and selling hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm. Peter Williams, the former chief executive of US defense contractor L3Harris, was sentenced to 87 months in prison on Tuesday … Read more
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
Last year, phone-hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as a customer after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its tools to hack into the phones of journalists and activists and spread spyware. This was a rare instance of Cellebrite publicly cutting off a customer after documented allegations … 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