Security

A group of international law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the 8base ransomware gang as part of a takedown operation.  “This hidden site and the criminal content have been seized by the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office on behalf of the Office of the Public

In its latest attempt to erode the protections of strong encryption, the U.K. government has reportedly secretly ordered Apple to build a backdoor that would allow British security officials to access the encrypted cloud storage data of Apple customers anywhere in the world. The secret order — i

Publishing giant Lee Enterprises has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems is behind ongoing disruption at dozens of newspapers and media outlets across the United States. In an email shared with customers sent Friday, which technewss has seen, Lee CEO Kevin Mowbray said the company was working

Operatives working for Elon Musk have gained unprecedented access to a swath of U.S. government departments — including agencies responsible for managing data on millions of federal employees and a system that handles $6 trillion in payments to Americans. During the first three weeks of Trump

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has begun notifying individuals whose personal information was stolen during a 2023 cyberattack, which the company blamed on Russian government hackers. HPE has so far notified more than a dozen individuals whose data was stolen in the cyberattack, according to TechCrunc

A coalition of more than a dozen U.S. states say they are planning to file a lawsuit in an effort to block billionaire Elon Musk’s team of cost-cutters from accessing sensitive federal government payment systems containing personal data on Americans. In a brief statement shared by 13 Democra

U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool has confirmed that 16,000 students in the United Kingdom had personal and sensitive data stolen during a December 2024 data breach.  This week, PowerSchool began notifying individuals outside of the U.S. and Canada who were affected by the breach. The incident, f

Paragon Solutions, a startup that sells access to surveillance technologies, including phone spyware, has cut ties with the Italian government, according to reports in The Guardian and Haaretz. On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, The Guardian reported Paragon suspended its contract with Italy

The Italian government said in a press release on Wednesday that a spyware campaign revealed by WhatsApp, and carried out with spyware made by Paragon Solutions, targeted people across several countries in Europe.  The government, led by far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni, denied being behin

On Wednesday, Mediterranea Saving Humans, an Italian nonprofit with the mission of rescuing immigrants who try to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe, said one of its founders was among the targets of a recent spyware campaign carried out against WhatsApp users.  In a press rele

Taiwanese hardware maker Zyxel says it has no plans to release a patch for two actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting potentially thousands of customers.  Threat intelligence startup GreyNoise warned late last month that a critical-rated zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel routers wa

Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to technewss that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. Paragon’s executive chairman John Fleming said in a statement to technewss on Tuesday that “Paragon licenses its technology to a select

U.S. food delivery giant Grubhub says hackers accessed the personal details of customers and drivers after breaching its internal systems.  Grubhub is a popular food-ordering and delivery platform with more than 375,000 merchants and 200,000 delivery providers using its platform in more than

On Friday, at 2:48 p.m., Francesco Cancellato received an ominous notification on his cell phone while he was at home near Milan.   “This is a message from WhatsApp,” read the message in Italian, which was obtained by technewss. “In December, WhatsApp interrupted the activities of a spywa