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Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
X adds support for passkeys globally on iOS
Ransomware gang’s new extortion trick? Calling the front desk
Google injects generative AI into its cloud security tools
Chrome Enterprise goes Premium with new security and management features
AI data security startup Cyera confirms $300M raise at a $1.4B valuation
Sprinto raises $20M to bring automation to security compliance management
Targus says cyberattack is causing operational outage
Targus says cyberattack causing operational outage
Hackers stole 340,000 Social Security numbers from government consulting firm
Indian audio giant BoAt says it’s investigating suspected customer data breach
Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers
Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years
The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch he found at least hundreds of documents containing citizens’ personal information — including Aadhaar numbers,…
Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cyber Resilience Act
Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python…
Rubrik’s IPO filing hints at thawing public markets for tech companies
Rubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in its most recent fiscal year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security…
Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cybersecurity Resilience Act
Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python…
TechCrunch Minute: AT&T data breach prompts millions of passcodes to be reset
Death, taxes, and regular, terrifying cybersecurity leaks. Those are the facts of life, as the latest AT&T data breach is teaching us yet again. A TechCrunch investigation into leaked customer data from the American telco giant has led to AT&T…
‘Reverse’ searches: The sneaky ways that police tap tech companies for your private data
Reverse searches cast a digital dragnet over a tech company’s store of user data to catch the information that police are looking for. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security…
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
Security researcher told TechCrunch that leaked AT&T customer data contained encrypted account passcodes that can be easily unscrambled. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the…
Activision investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players
Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that’s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned. At this point, the hackers’ specific goals — apart from stealing passwords for various types of accounts —…
US offers $10M to help catch Change Healthcare hackers
The government’s reward for information now extends to ALPHV’s affiliates, which claimed responsibility for a massive weeks-long healthcare cyberattack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read…
Coro, building cybersecurity for SMBs, locks down $100M at a $750M valuation
Enterprises and other large organizations have long been a lucrative and obvious target for cybercriminals, but in recent years — thanks to more sophisticated breach techniques and the rise of AI — small and medium businesses are now also very…
StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence platform
StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. The Singapore-headquartered startup with an R&D office in South Korea will…
Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed…
AI is a data problem — Cyera is raising up to $300M on a $1.5B valuation to secure it
A cybersecurity startup called Cyera is betting that the next big challenge in enterprise data protection will be AI, and it’s raising a big round of funding as demand picks up for it. The company — which builds AI-enhanced tools…
AI is a data problem. Cyera is raising up to $300M on a $1.5B valuation to secure it
A cybersecurity startup called Cyera is betting that the next big challenge in enterprise data protection will be AI, and it’s raising a big round of funding as demand picks up for it. The company — which builds AI-enhanced tools…
AI is a data problem. Now Cyera is raising up to $300M on a $1.5B valuation to secure it
A cybersecurity startup called Cyera is betting that the next big challenge in enterprise data protection will be AI, and it’s raising a big round of funding as demand picks up for it. The company — which builds AI-enhanced tools…
AI is a data problem. Now Cyera is raising up to $300M on a $1.5B valuation, to secure it
A cybersecurity startup called Cyera is betting that the next big challenge in enterprise data protection will be AI, and it’s raising a big round of funding as demand picks up for it. The company — which builds AI-enhanced tools…
UK blames China for massive breach of voter data
It’s the first time the United Kingdom has attributed the massive breach of millions of citizens’ voter data since the cyberattack was first disclosed in 2023. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been…
AT&T won’t say how its customers’ data spilled online
Customers say leaked AT&T customer data — names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers — is accurate. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the…
Investors’ pledge to fight spyware undercut by past investments in US malware maker
On Monday, the Biden administration announced that six new countries had joined an international coalition to fight the proliferation of commercial spyware, sold by companies such as NSO Group or Intellexa. Now, some investors have announced that they too are…
DOJ calls Apple’s privacy justifications an ‘elastic shield’ for financial gains
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple Thursday over monopolistic practices. The complaint accuses Apple of moulding its privacy and security practices in ways that benefits the company financially. One quote particularly jumps out where the DOJ calls Apple’s privacy…
DOT to investigate data security and privacy practices of top US airlines
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced its first industry-wide review of data security and privacy policies across the largest U.S. airlines. The DOT said in a press release Thursday that the review will examine whether U.S. airline giants are properly…
Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
One user said Glassdoor pulled her full name from an email and added it to her profile. Another user said it wasn’t clear how Glassdoor got his data. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This article…
GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities
It’s a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now, a few hours later, GitHub is launching the first beta of its code scanning autofix feature for finding and fixing…
Apex Legends hacker said he hacked tournament games ‘for fun’
On Sunday, the world of video games was shaken by a hacking and cheating scandal. During a competitive esports tournament of Apex Legends, a free-to-play shooter video game played by hundreds of thousands of players daily, hackers appeared to insert…
GitHub’s latest AI tool that can automatically fix code vulnerabilities
It’s a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now, a few hours later, GitHub is launching the first beta of its code scanning autofix feature for finding and fixing…
Pokémon resets some users’ passwords after hacking attempts
The Pokémon Company said it detected hacking attempts against some of its users and reset those user account passwords. Last week, an alert was visible on Pokémon’s official support website that said, “Following an attempt to compromise our account system,…
Pokemon resets some users passwords after hacking attempts
The Pokemon Company said it detected hacking attempts against some of its users and reset those user account passwords. Last week, an alert was visible on Pokemon’s official support website, which said that “following an attempt to compromise our account…
Mintlify says customer GitHub tokens exposed in data breach
Documentation startup Mintlify says dozens of customers had GitHub tokens exposed in a data breach at the start of the month and publicly disclosed last week. Mintlify helps developers create documentation for their software and source code by requesting access…
Esports league postponed after players hacked midgame
On Sunday, two competitive esports players appeared to get hacked during a live streamed game, prompting the organizers to postpone the tournament. Players were competing in the Apex Legends Global Series, a competitive esports tournament for the popular shooter game…
Tech giant Fujitsu says it was hacked, warns of data breach
Multinational technology giant Fujitsu confirmed a cyberattack in a statement Friday, and warned that hackers may have stolen personal data and customer information. “We confirmed the presence of malware on multiple work computers at our company, and as a result…
How to verify a data breach
Over the years TechCrunch has extensively covered data breaches. In fact, some of our most-read stories have come from reporting on huge data breaches, such as revealing shoddy security practices at startups holding sensitive genetic information through to disproving privacy…
Google is changing how Chrome detects and warns you about unsafe sites
Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will make the service work in real time by checking against a server-side list — all without sharing your browsing habits with Google. Previously, Chrome downloaded…
Google’s Safe Browsing protection in Chrome goes real-time
Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will make the service work in real time by checking against a server-side list — all without sharing your browsing habits with Google. Previously, Chrome downloaded…
Ted Schlein’s 2-year-old Ballistic Ventures has already raised a second $360 million fund
After a shakeup at Kleiner Perkins a few years back, one of its star B2B investors, Ted Schlein, started his own firm. Ballistic has already closed a second fund, even bigger than the first. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.…
Nigeria’s Youverify raises $2.5M to enhance anti-money laundering compliance
Youverify, a Nigerian provider of identity verification and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions for banks and startups, secured a $2.5 million investment from Elm, which specializes in offering ready-made and customized digital solutions to public and private institutions in Saudi Arabia.…
A bug in an Irish government website that exposed COVID-19 vaccination records took two years to publicly disclose
The Irish government fixed a vulnerability two years ago in its national COVID-19 vaccination portal that exposed the vaccination records of around a million residents. But details of the vulnerability weren’t revealed until this week after attempts to coordinate public…
Four things we learned when US intelligence chiefs testified to Congress
Cyberattacks, regional conflict, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, commercial spyware, AI, misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes and TikTok. These are just some of the top perceived threats that the United States faces, according to the U.S. government’s intelligence agency’s latest global risk…
Four things we learned when US spy chiefs testified to Congress
Cyberattacks, regional conflict, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, commercial spyware, AI, misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, and TikTok. These are just some of the top perceived threats that the United States faces, according to the U.S. government’s intelligence agency’s latest global risk…
Women in AI: Heidy Khlaaf, safety engineering director at Trail of Bits
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the…
As the Change Healthcare outage drags on, fears grow that patient data could spill online
A cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare has ground much of the U.S. healthcare system to a halt for the second week in a row. Hospitals have been unable to check insurance benefits of in-patient stays, handle the…
Spyware makers express concern after US sanctions spyware veteran
Earlier this week, the U.S. government announced sanctions against the founder of a controversial government spyware maker, Tal Dilian, and his business associate, Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou. In announcing the sanctions, U.S. Treasury officials accused Dilian and Hamou of developing…
Russian spies keep hacking into Microsoft in ‘ongoing attack,’ company says
On Friday, Microsoft said Russian government hackers continue to break into its systems using information obtained during a hack last year. This time, the Russian hackers dubbed Midnight Blizzard have targeted Microsoft’s source code and other internal systems, the company…
India’s Election Commission fixes privacy flaws that exposed citizens’ information-seeking data
India’s federal election commission has fixed flaws on its website that exposed data related to citizens’ requests for information related to their voting eligibility status, local political candidates and parties, and technical details about electronic voting machines. India is heading…
Reach Security taps a company’s existing tools to fight cyber threats
Thanks to an uncertain economy, cybersecurity budgets are in a tight spot. According to a 2023 survey from IANS and recruiting firm Artico Search, more than a third of chief information security officers (CISOs) kept their security spending the same…
Anonymous social apps face another reckoning as UNC System to ban Yik Yik, Fizz, Sidechat & Whisper
Anonymous social apps are in for a reckoning. Yes, again. This week, University of North Carolina (UNC) System President Peter Hans announced a plan to block the use of popular anonymous social apps on campus, including Yik Yak, Fizz, Whisper,…
Zama’s homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M
Homomorphic encryption, a complex technique that uses cryptographic algorithms to keep data secure as it travels around networks and to third parties, continues to elude mass-market scalability and thus adoption — not least because currently, the complexity that makes it…
US sanctions founder of spyware maker Intellexa for targeting Americans
The U.S. government announced Tuesday sanctions against the founder of the notorious spyware company Intellexa and one of his business partners. This is the first time the U.S. government has targeted specific people, in addition to companies, with sanctions related…
Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management — understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that make up an organization’s network — has raised $200 million more in funding to expand its business…
Elon Musk switched on X calling by default: Here’s how to switch it off
In his quest to turn a simple and functioning Twitter app into X, the everything app that doesn’t do anything very well, Elon Musk launched audio and video calling on X last week — and this new feature is switched…
Why Signal ‘turned our architecture inside out’ for its latest privacy feature
Adding usernames to a messaging app may seem like a standard feature, but for Signal, such identifiers were anathema to its mission of total privacy and security — until now. The upcoming 7.0 version adds usernames, but the company’s president,…
Should we ban ransom payments?
As cybercriminals continue to reap the financial rewards of their attacks, talk of a federal ban on ransom payments is getting louder. U.S. officials have long urged against paying ransom demands. But while several U.S. states — including North Carolina…
Thoma Bravo takes critical event management software company Everbridge private in $1.8B deal
Everbridge, a critical event management (CEM) software company, is going private in a $1.8 billion all-cash deal that will see it taken over by private equity giant Thoma Bravo — 20% more than what was originally announced last month.* Founded…
NSA says it’s tracking Ivanti cyberattacks as hackers hit US defense sector
The U.S. National Security Agency has confirmed that hackers exploiting flaws in Ivanti’s widely used enterprise VPN appliance have targeted organizations across the U.S. defense sector. NSA spokesperson Edward Bennett confirmed in an emailed statement to TechCrunch on Friday that…
A leaky database spilled 2FA codes for the world’s tech giants
A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts. The Asian technology…
A government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security
A U.S. government watchdog stole more than one gigabyte of seemingly sensitive personal data from the cloud systems of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The good news: The data was fake and part of a series of tests to…
UnitedHealth confirms ransomware gang behind Change Healthcare hack amid ongoing pharmacy outages
U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group has confirmed a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare, which continues to disrupt hospitals and pharmacies across the United States. “Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cyber security issue…
Popular video doorbells can be easily hijacked, researchers find
Several internet-connected doorbell cameras have a security flaw that allows hackers to take over the camera by just holding down a button, among other issues, according to research by Consumer Reports. On Thursday, the non-profit Consumer Reports published research that…
Silence Laboratories, a cryptographic security startup, secures funding
Silence Laboratories, a startup that builds infrastructure using multiparty computation (MPC) to help enterprises keep data private and safe, said it has raised a $4.1 million funding round. Pi Ventures and Kira Studio co-led the recent funding, which brings its total raised…
OpenCTI maker Filigran raises $16 million for its cybersecurity threat management suite
Paris-based cybersecurity startup Filigran is capitalizing on the success of OpenCTI to build a suite of open-source threat management products. The company has already found some early traction with OpenCTI, its open-source threat intelligence platform. That’s why the company recently…
Anycubic users say their 3D printers were hacked to warn of a security flaw
Anycubic customers are reporting that their 3D printers have been hacked and now display a message warning of an alleged security flaw in the company’s systems. Numerous threads on news sharing site Reddit show similar reports (hat tip to @dan)…
Feds hack LockBit, LockBit springs back. Now what?
Days after it was knocked offline by a sweeping, years-in-the-making law enforcement operation, the notorious Russia-based LockBit ransomware group has returned to the dark web with a new leak site complete with a number of new victims. In a verbose,…
Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions
An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. A healthcare executive with knowledge of the…
Researchers say easy-to-exploit security bugs in ConnectWise remote-access software now under mass attack
Security researchers say a pair of easy-to-exploit flaws in a popular remote-access tool used by more than a million companies around the world are now being mass exploited, with hackers abusing the vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware and steal sensitive data.…
Researchers say easy-to-exploit security bugs in ConnectWise remote access software now under mass-attack
Security researchers say a pair of easy-to-exploit flaws in a popular remote access tool used by more than a million companies around the world are now being mass-exploited, with hackers abusing the vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware and steal sensitive data.…
LoanDepot says about 17 million customers had personal data and Social Security numbers stolen during cyberattack
Almost 17 million LoanDepot customers had sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, stolen in a January ransomware attack, the company has confirmed. The loan and mortgage giant company said in a data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general’s…
Spyware leak offers ‘first-of-its-kind’ look inside Chinese government hacking efforts
Over the weekend, someone posted a cache of files and documents apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon. This leak gives cybersecurity researchers and rival governments an unprecedented chance to look behind the curtain of Chinese government hacking…
Hackers are exploiting ConnectWise flaws to deploy LockBit ransomware, security experts warn
Security experts are warning that a pair of high-risk flaws in a popular remote access tool are being exploited by hackers to deploy LockBit ransomware — days after authorities announced that they had disrupted the notorious Russia-linked cybercrime gang. Researchers…
UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation state, as pharmacy outages drag on
U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected…
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users’ browsing data to advertisers
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it will ban the antivirus giant Avast from selling consumers’ web browsing data to advertisers after Avast claimed its products would prevent its users from online tracking. Avast also settled the federal regulator’s…
US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack
U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. In a brief statement, the company said it was “experiencing a network interruption related to a cyber security issue.” “Once we became aware of the outside threat,…
Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted using Discord applications. But Discord has yet to remove the server where the attacks are facilitated, and…
Researchers warn high-risk ConnectWise flaw under attack is ’embarrassingly easy’ to exploit
Security experts are warning that a high-risk vulnerability in a widely used remote access tool is “trivial and embarrassingly easy” to exploit, as the software’s developer confirms malicious hackers are actively exploiting the flaw. The maximum severity-rated vulnerability affects ConnectWise…
Apple readies iMessage for when quantum computers could break encryption
Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming years, quantum computers will be able to break today’s…
Six things we learned from the LockBit takedown
A sweeping law enforcement operation led by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency this week took down LockBit, the notorious Russia-linked ransomware gang that has for years wreaked havoc on businesses, hospitals, and governments around the world. The action saw LockBit’s…
US sanctions LockBit members after ransomware takedown
The U.S. government has sanctioned two key members of LockBit, the Russian-speaking hacking and extortion gang accused of launching ransomware attacks against victims across the U.S. and internationally. In a post on Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury confirmed it is sanctioning…
1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition
1Password, the AgileBits-owned password management software developer, today announced that it has acquired Kolide, an endpoint security platform, for an undisclosed amount. According to 1Password CEO Jeff Shiner, Kolide founder and CEO Jason Meller and all of Kolide’s 30 employees…
Authorities disrupt operations of notorious LockBit ransomware gang
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, have disrupted the operations of the prolific LockBit ransomware gang. LockBit’s dark web leak site — where the group publicly lists its victims and…
Authorities seize dark web leak site from LockBit ransomware gang
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, have disrupted the operations of the prolific LockBit ransomware gang. LockBit’s dark web leak site — where the group publicly lists its victims and…
US, UK authorities claim seizure of LockBit ransomware gang’s dark web leak site
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, have disrupted the operations of the prolific LockBit ransomware gang. LockBit’s dark-web leak site — where the group publicly lists its victims and threatens…
Why are ransomware gangs making so much money?
For many organizations and startups, 2023 was a rough year financially, with companies struggling to raise money and others making cuts to survive. Ransomware and extortion gangs, on the other hand, had a record-breaking year in earnings, if recent reports…
Tech giants sign voluntary pledge to fight election-related deepfakes
Tech companies are pledging to fight election-related deepfakes as policymakers amp up pressure. Today at the Munich Security Conference, vendors including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Adobe and IBM signed an accord signaling their intention to adopt a common framework for…
Spyware startup Variston is losing staff — some say it’s closing
In July 2021, someone sent Google a batch of malicious code that could be used to hack Chrome, Firefox, and PCs running Microsoft Defender. That code was part of an exploitation framework called Heliconia. And at the time, the exploits…
Spyware startup Variston is losing staff, some say it’s closing
In July 2021, someone sent Google a batch of malicious code that could be used to hack Chrome, Firefox, and PCs running Windows Defender. That code was part of an exploitation framework called Heliconia. And at the time, the exploits…
LockBit claims cyberattack on Indian broker Motilal Oswal
The prolific ransomware gang LockBit has claimed responsibility for hacking one of India’s top brokerage firms, Motilal Oswal. Indian authorities say they are aware and investigating the incident. On Tuesday, LockBit added the Indian brokerage giant Motilal Oswal to its…
Why Sequoia is funding open source developers via a new equity-free fellowship
Sequoia Capital plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually, as a continuation of a program it debuted last year. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm announced the Sequoia Open Source Fellowship last May, but it was…
BMW security lapse exposed sensitive company information, researcher finds
A misconfigured cloud storage server belonging to automotive giant BMW exposed sensitive company information, including private keys and internal data, TechCrunch has learned. Can Yoleri, a security researcher at threat intelligence company SOCRadar, told TechCrunch that he discovered the exposed…
UK utility giant Southern Water says hackers stole personal data of hundreds of thousands of customers
U.K.-based water utility Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of as many as 470,000 customers in a recent data breach. Southern Water, which provides water and wastewater services to millions of people across the South East…