The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a proposed rule to rein in data brokers that could make it harder for ...

German police shut down a platform used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and arrested two men who allegedly operated the site. Police seized infrastructure tied to the ...

OpenSSL released patches for two vulnerabilities that have caused widespread concern among cybersecurity experts and researchers over the last week and a half. OpenSSL is a commonly used code library ...

The FBI and other agencies accused Iranian cyber actors of targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics, including an attempt to take over display boards to denounce Israel. The group has been using a company ...

The Russian government will begin banning cryptocurrency mining in certain regions in November as it struggles with electricity shortages amid its war with Ukraine, according to the country’s energy ...

Hackers affiliated with North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau were involved in a Play ransomware attack identified by incident responders in September. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit42 published a ...

Less than a week before Americans head to the polls, foreign actors have not compromised the country’s election systems, a top U.S. cybersecurity official said on Wednesday. "We have not seen any ...

Chinese government-backed hackers have compromised at least 20 Canadian government networks over the last four years, Canada’s top cyber agency said Wednesday. Calling the threat from China in ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken privacy enforcement up a notch under Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, who launched a privacy and data protection task force in June 2023. Since then, ...

Russian and Chinese state threat actors are ramping up their cyberattacks against Dutch organizations, according to a new government report. Most of these attacks primarily aim to gain a foothold ...

The Biden administration must fix several provisions threatening human rights and cybersecurity in the United Nations cybercrime convention that is heading to the General Assembly for a vote, six ...

Free, the second-largest internet service provider in France, confirmed being hacked this weekend following the attempted sale of purportedly stolen customer information on a cybercrime forum. The ...