Cybersecurity firm Onfido acquired Airside Mobile to deliver user-controlled, shareable digital identity designed with data privacy and time-saving convenience at its core.

The bad news train keeps rolling for Capita, with more local British councils surfacing to say their data was put on the line by an unsecured AWS bucket, and, separately, pension clients warning of possible data theft in March’s mega breach.

Researchers have developed DarkBERT, a language model pre-trained on dark web data, to help cybersecurity pros extract cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from the Internet’s virtual underbelly.

Trend Micro researchers reported on an incident involving the BlackCat ransomware that took place in February 2023. The researchers highlighted a new capability, which involved the utilization of a signed kernel driver for evasion.

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cyberespionage fears.

Tejay Fletcher, 35, from London, was found guilty of running a multi-million-pound fraud website that led to at least £100m ($124.2m) being stolen globally. Of this, £43m ($53.4m) was taken from UK victims.

Security researchers are warning that vulnerabilities patched in the open-source Pimcore platform could have led to the execution of arbitrary code when clicking on a link.

Microsoft has released a new report warning companies about the alarming surge in business email compromise (BEC) attacks and the evolving tactics employed by cybercriminals.

In June 2022, Kaspersky researchers found a suspicious shellcode running in the memory of a system process. Based on their reconstruction of the infection chain, they determined that it originated from running an encoded PowerShell script as a task.

The APT campaign employs a modular framework called CloudWizard. This framework is capable of taking screenshots, keylogging, and recording audio from the microphone. The CloudWizard framework comprises nine modules that enable a variety of hacking capabilities.