A little-known ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the Ohio Lottery that allegedly involved the theft of personally identifiable information. Officially described as a “cybersecurity event” by Ohio Lottery, the attack occurred on Dec. 24 and affected some systems. The lottery took steps to mitigate the attack, including taking certain systems offline ...

National Amusements Inc., the parent company of Paramount and CBS, has suffered a data breach that affected some 82,000 people. The data breach, disclosed via a Dec. 22 filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, occurred between Dec. 13 and Dec. 15, 2022, before being detected on Aug. 23 this year. In a ...

Members of Oklahoma-based healthcare provider Integris Health reportedly received messages from hackers on Christmas Eve telling them that their data had been breached, along with a demand for payment to delete their stolen data. According to a “data privacy incident” notice from Integris, the stolen data was accessed via “potential unauthorized activity on certain systems” ...

A previously unknown spyware campaign targeting iPhones, believed to have been ongoing since 2019, has been found to exploit a previously unknown feature in chips designed by Apple Inc. to bypass hardware-based security protections. Detailed today by researchers from Kaspersky Labs Inc. at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress, the campaign, dubbed “Operation Triangulation,” starts with a ...

In a gift to hackers, the source code for Rockstar Games Inc.’s hit game Grand Theft Auto 5 has reportedly been leaked online. “Reportedly” is key as various sites say that it has been leaked on a Telegram channel and yet there is surprisingly little evidence other than third-hand accounts of this occurring. SiliconANGLE has tried ...

A new variant of Chameleon Android malware has been found in the wild with new features, notable among them the ability to bypass fingerprint locks. The Chameleon Android banking trojan first entered the scene in early 2023 with a primary focus on mobile banking applications in Australia and Poland but has since expanded into other ...

A new report from cybersecurity services company Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd. is warning of a sharp increase in fake delivery sites in the weeks leading up to Christmas. In the first 10 days of December, Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team identified 587 fake postal resources, 34% higher than the last ten days of November. Since the beginning ...

Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC-backed artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks to raise $750 million in new funding on a valuation of $15 billion, according to a report from The Information and later a report from Bloomberg. The report claims that Menlo Ventures Management L.P. will lead the round. Although a valuation ...

The German Federal Criminal Police Office, with support from various international law enforcement agencies, has seized Kingdom Market, a dark web marketplace that was selling drugs, malware, stolen data and forged documents. Founded in 2021, Kingdom Market was primarily used to trade illegal narcotics. The site had over 42,000 listings as of the time it ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped nearly 2% in late trading today after the company missed estimates for its outlook, even though it reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal third quarter. For the quarter that ended Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported adjusted earnings per share of one cent, up from a loss of one cent ...