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Robinhood: Hackers Obtained 4K+ Phone Numbers in Breach
Robinhood has revealed that a recent security breach compromised more user information than the financial services company originally reported. Robinhood confirmed that hackers obtained a list with around 4,400 phone numbers. The...

US Government Officials Warn of Thanksgiving Ransomware Attacks
US government officials are advising American businesses and government organizations to stay vigilant against ransomware attacks and other cyber attacks that take advantage of worker downtime during Thanksgiving, following multip...

GoDaddy Data Breach Exposes Over 1M WordPress Users' Data
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, was the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in the unauthorized access of data belonging to 1.2 million active and inactive WordPress users.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities an...

Apple Sues NSO Group for Pegasus Spyware Attacks on iPhones
Apple is joining WhatsApp, and its parent company Meta (formerly known as Facebook), in a lawsuit against NSO Group, which is the developer of the Pegasus spyware. Apple said in a statement that it’s seeking a permanent injunction...

ESET Cybersecurity Survey Reveals Threat Awareness Gaps Amongst APAC Internet Users
ESET, one of the worldwide leaders in cybersecurity, released the results from its Asian-Pacific (APAC) Consumer Cybersecurity Survey. According to ESET’s survey, 3 in 5 (62%) respondents said they have experienced a cyberattack o...

Four Banking Trojan Campaigns Targeted Over 300,000 Android Devices in 2021
Hackers circumvented the Google Play Store to distribute four separate Android banking Trojans between August and November, cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric reported. The malware infected more than 300,000 Android devices through d...

Kronos Ransomware Hack to Have Impact on Employers
Ultimate Kronos Group (Kronos), one of the largest human resources companies, said in a Dec. 15 update that it experienced a ransomware attack that will potentially keep Kronos’s systems offline for weeks.
The attack on Kronos’ sy...

Meta: Expanding Bug Bounty Program
Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, announced in a Dec. 15 blog post that it’s expanding its bug bounty program.
With this expansion, the tech company will start rewarding valid reports of data scraping bugs across its pla...

Panasonic Confirms Data Breach by Hackers
Tech company Panasonic confirmed that it suffered a data breach and hackers gained access to its internal network.
Panasonic said that its network was “illegally accessed by a third party” on Nov. 11 and that “some data on a file...

Twitter Bans Sharing Videos and Photos of Private Individuals Without Their Consent
Twitter has announced an expansion to its private information policy regarding private media, which bans the sharing of photos and videos of private individuals without their consent.
The tech giant’s privacy policy had already pr...