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Over two dozen nations resolved Thursday to battle collectively against the global and escalating threat posed by cyber-extortionists, following a Washington-led anti-ransomware summit.
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An Israeli hospital was targeted Wednesday by a ransomware attack, officials said, with the state's cyber directorate calling it the first such attack on a hospital in the country.
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A digital "disaster" in Germany, growing attacks in the United Arab Emirates and even Israel announcing a blitz underway: nations disclosed their struggle against ransomware attacks at a Washington-led anti-ransomware summit.
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Twitch, Amazon's popular live video streaming platform, on Thursday said hackers took advantage of a mistake in a server configuration tweak to steal data.
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Amazon's popular live video streaming platform Twitch said hackers had broken into its network after reports of exposed confidential company data surfaced online.
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A Moscow court ordered the co-founder of Group-IB, one of Russia's leading cybersecurity firms, to be detained on charges of treason.
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A prominent American cryptocurrency promoter and former hacker has pleaded guilty to advising North Korea on using virtual money to avoid international controls.
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Encrypted instant messaging app Signal was hit by a brief outage late Sunday that interrupted services on the platform at the same time as localised interruptions on other social media services.
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The European Union on Friday condemned alleged Russian cyber attacks that have targeted Germany in the run up to this weekend's election for Chancellor Angela Merkel's successor.
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Facebook said Wednesday that Apple's iPhone privacy changes, which allow users to block tracking, significantly affected its advertising revenues because less data could be collected.
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More than 106 million travellers to Thailand had their personal details exposed online in August, but the leak was quickly plugged by authorities.
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Suspected hackers last month briefly disrupted the website of the authority running Germany's September 26 general election.
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The UN called Wednesday for a moratorium on artificial intelligence systems like facial recognition technology that threaten human rights until "guardrails" are in place against violations.
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Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020, hospital officials in the French capital disclosed on Wednesday.
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Apple rushed to patch a major security flaw which allows spyware to be downloaded on an iPhone or iPad without the owner even a button. But how do such "zero-click" attacks work, and can they be stopped?
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After remaking security procedures following the 9/11 attacks, carriers are now faced with rising threats targeting computers and electronic equipment critical to their operations and safety.
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The German government admitted that its federal police service used controversial Israeli spyware known as Pegasus
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Apple will delay the rollout of its controversial new child pornography protection tools, accused by some of undermining the privacy of its devices and services.
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Ireland imposed a 225-million-euro fine on Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp for breaching EU data privacy laws after European regulators demanded the penalty be increased.
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A small Swiss town acknowledged that it had underestimated the severity of a cyberattack, following reports the personal data of the entire population was exposed online.
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President Joe Biden is meeting with top tech and finance executives as the White House aims to team with the private sector to improve cyber defenses against increasing cyberattacks
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Under the new rules passed by China's top legislative body, state and private entities handling personal information will be required to reduce data collection and obtain user consent.
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A court in Belarus declared Wednesday a group of hackers who claim to have carried out a massive hack on the interior ministry in an attack on President Alexander Lukashenko's regime to be an "extremist" organisation.
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T-Mobile acknowledged a breach of customer information after a hacker group claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of the operator's US customers and offered some of the data on the dark web.
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Cryptocurrency services firm Poly Network said that a hacker they are calling "Mr White Hat" was giving back all $613 million in digital loot from a record haul.
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