The Federal Ministry of Justice in Germany has drafted a law to provide legal protection to security researchers who discover and responsibly report security vulnerabilities to vendors. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
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Interpol announced it arrested 41 individuals and taken down 1,037 servers and infrastructure running on 22,000 IP addresses facilitating cybercrime in an international law enforcement action titled Operation Synergia II. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
The United States announced charges today against Maxim Rudometov, a Russian national, for being the suspected developer and administrator of the RedLine malware operation, one of the most prolific infostealers over the past few years. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
The Dutch National Police seized the network infrastructure for the Redline and Meta infostealer malware operations in “Operation Magnus,” warning cybercriminals that their data is now in the hands of the law enforcement. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
LinkedIn received a €310 million fine from the Irish Data Protection Commission for violating European Union’s law related to the processing of personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted advertising. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is proposing security requirements to prevent adversary states from accessing American’s personal data as well as government-related information. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
The Finnish Customs office took down the website and seized the servers for the darknet marketplace ‘Sipulitie’ where criminals sold illegal narcotics anonymously. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
Ukraine’s cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old man who operated a massive virtual private network (VPN) service, allowing people from within the country to access the Russian internet (Runet). […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels will pay $52 million and create a comprehensive information security program as part of settlements for data breaches that impacted over 344 million customers. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas