Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime. “A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the national police cyber unit and Europol,”...Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox One gaming console was released in November 2013 and has never been hacked since. That was until Markus “Doom” Haasedelen demonstrated the Voltage Glitch Hacking (VGH) exploit Bliss at this year’s RE//verse conference, Tom’s Hardware reports. A security researcher noted that “in 2013, a kind of iron curtain fell on the security of...Read More
According to a recent report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Automotive Cybersecurity Market by Offering, Security Type, Application, and Form : Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2030.” The global Automotive Cybersecurity market size was valued at $7.23 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $32.41 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of...Read More
Settlement Marks OCR’s 15th Ransomware Enforcement Action and 10th Enforcement Action in OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with BST & Co. CPAs, LLP (“BST”), a New York public accounting, business advisory, and management consulting firm, concerning a potential...Read More
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 continuously evolving their campaigns to achieve sharpened focus on cloud-based tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). While the threat actor has been known for targeting hybrid cloud environments, their primary objective has shifted from deploying on-premises endpoint ransomware to using cloud-based ransomware tactics. Unlike traditional on-premises...Read More
23 Feb Cybersecurity Jobs Report: 3.5 Million Unfilled Positions In 2025 Posted at 03:01h in Reports by Cybercrime Magazine While tech firms are firing, our industry is hiring Download Report – Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 14, 2023 Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings in 2013 to 3.5...Read More
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Japanese semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest said it is dealing with a ransomware attack that has impacted several company systems. The company said it detected unusual activity within its IT environment on Sunday and activated incident response protocols and isolated the impacted systems. “Preliminary findings appear to indicate that an unauthorized third party may have...Read More
Cybercrime has seen a staggering rise over recent years, with past estimates putting it at a worldwide cost of $10.5 trillion in 2025. Thankfully, today the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and Europol put the kibosh on the LeakBase database, a hacker forum operating across 14 different countries. According to the press releases, the authorities...Read More
In terms of execution, the ransomware accepts specific parameters: –password (Required): 8-byte password parameter needed to execute the ransomware –path (Optional): Target path parameter for specifying custom encryption directory The ransomware aggressively attempts to terminate key services commonly associated with backup, database, and security processes to maximize its impact: net stop (.*)sql(.*), AcrSch2Svc, VSNAPVSS, MVarmor64,...Read More
