The indictment accuses the four FinFisher executives, identified only with an initial, of evading export controls by selling the FinSpy hacking tool to Turkey’s intelligence agency in 2015 through a Bulgarian front company.

OneMain Financial Group, which specializes in issuing loans to people with “nonprime” credit histories, will pay a $4.25 million penalty in New York state for cybersecurity lapses found during a government investigation.

A number of individuals from Armenia contacted the digital rights organizations CyberHUB-AM, an Armenian organization, and Access Now to check their devices for evidence of such spyware.

The Department of Defense announced on Friday that it submitted its classified 2023 cyber strategy to Congress “earlier this week” and plans to release an unclassified summary of its new cybersecurity approach “in the coming months.”

An upstate New York medical specialty practice told regulators that hackers compromised the personal and protected health information of nearly 224,500 employees and patients in an incident discovered in March.

Latitude was able to process transactions during the incident, but “account originations and collections were closed or severely restricted.” The company has since fully recovered, it says.

An unidentified threat actor group has been observed employing a malicious Windows kernel driver in targeted attacks, primarily focusing on the Middle East region. Fortinet security experts have dubbed the artifact as WINTAPIX (WinTapix.sys). To stay protected, users are suggested to immediately implement the driver blocklist feature in Windows to block malicious drivers.

The multi-stage attack chain identified by Dig, in a nutshell, leveraged a gap in the cloud platform’s security layer associated with SQL Server to escalate the privileges of a user to that of an administrator role.

Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer travel season. U.S. authorities and network defenders in the private sector are quietly paying attention to potential threats that may emerge during key holiday weekends over the next three months.

Technicians were working to “mitigate the consequences” of the attack, the ministry wrote in a statement, adding that initial checks showed no evidence of data theft. It was too early to predict when activities would be back to normal, it said.