Cyber Security Trends

The one-year contract between the company’s US subsidiary in Chantilly, Virginia, and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Division 3 was signed on September 27 and covers a “fully configured proprietary solution including license, hardware, warranty, maintenance and training.”

23andMe is in trouble. Once a hot Silicon Valley startup, the genetic testing company has been in free fall since a major data breach last year that affected roughly half of its customers. The incident led to a class action lawsuit, which the company has agreed to settle for $30 million.

In recent years, cybercriminals have increasingly exploited vulnerabilities in widely-used IT and security tools, leading to major security incidents. For instance, a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti enterprise VPNs was recently exploited, allowing attackers to deploy a backdoor named ‘DSLog’.

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

Telegram now shares users’ IP addresses and phone numbers with authorities after valid legal requests. This policy change affects privacy-focused users like journalists and whistleblowers while helping fight criminal activities.

An American collaborator assisting fake North Korean IT workers to secure jobs at US companies generated approximately $7 million in revenue over three years, underscoring the profitability of a growing threat with serious nuclear weapons implications.

German authorities dismantled Boystown, a notorious Dark Web platform for CSAM, by deanonymizing Tor users in 2021. This breakthrough raises concerns over Tor’s privacy as law enforcement targets criminal activities on the Dark Web.

A hacker claims Dell suffered a “minor” breach, exposing over 10,000 employee records. The incident raises cybersecurity concerns amid ongoing threats targeting businesses by tricking employees into phishing and phone call scams.

US wireless carrier AT&T has agreed to pay $13 million in a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over a 2023 data breach.

Discover the RAMBO attack, a groundbreaking method that uses electromagnetic waves to steal data from air-gapped systems. Learn how hackers exploit isolated networks using electromagnetic emissions to extract sensitive information securely.

Broadcom-owned VMware on Tuesday rolled out critical-severity patches to cover a pair of vulnerabilities in its vCenter Server platform and warned that there’s a major risk of remote code execution attacks.

DeltaPrime DeFi platform suffers a $5.98M hack on the Arbitrum chain due to a private key leak. The attack compromised several liquidity pools, and the team is working on asset recovery and minimizing user losses.