A thirty-year-old Romanian man has been sentenced to twenty years in prison in the United States for carrying out attacks with the NetWalker ransomware. He must also relinquish more than $21 million and his interests in an Indonesian company and associated luxury resort being built in Bali, as well as pay $15 million in damages. […]

The data of 5.6 million people was stolen in the ransomware attack on the American healthcare giant Ascension Health, the organization informed the attorney general of the US state of Maine. This makes it one of the largest data breaches in American healthcare in the past two years. Ascension operates one hundred and forty hospitals

Apple has been warning iPhone owners for some time now if they are suspected of being the target of a ‘mercenary’ spyware attack, advising them to contact the non-profit organization Access Now’s helpline. Anyone who receives a message from Apple can reach the Access Now helpline 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Apple

Several Juniper customers have had to deal with compromised routers because the devices were still using standard passwords, the network company said. Last Wednesday, several customers reported suspicious behavior on their Session Smart Routers (SSR). The devices were found to be infected with a variant of the Mirai malware and were used to carry out

An American judge has ruled that NSO Group is responsible for the spyware attack on fourteen hundred WhatsApp users in 2019. WhatsApp director Will Cathcart calls the ruling a ‘major victory’ for privacy. Citizen Lab security researcher and spyware expert John Scott-Railton calls it a big win for spyware victims and a big loss for

A critical vulnerability in Sophos’ firewalls allows remote code execution or could give an attacker SSH access. The company has released security updates to fix the problem. The first critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-12727) allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform SQL Injection, thereby gaining access to a firewall database. If the firewall has a specific configuration and