Tom Schuba reports: Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator for River North-based DigitalMint at the time of the…
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Canadian woman stuck since 2021 in Mauritius after passport withheld
DataBreaches can’t recall any recent cases in the news involving one spouse hacking another’s email, but this one seems a bit unusual. Geoffrey York reports: A Canadian woman says she has been stuck in the Indian Ocean country of Mauritius for the past five years, unable to return home, partly because Canada refuses to release…
‘People have had to move house’: Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack
Sometimes we forget about breaches when they are out of the immediate news cycle. Here is a reminder that some ransomware attacks have long-lasting impacts. Athena Stavrou reports: Home to more than 170 million items, including Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the world’s largest and most impressive book collections. However, in October…
How many courts have had sealed and sensitive files exposed by one vendor’s error?
DataBreaches recently reported that researchers had discovered two courts had sealed filings and court records exposed, but the vendor responsible wasn’t responding to notifications. Despite months of trying to get a software vendor to respond to alerts that their clients’ files are exposed on the internet — including confidential and sealed court records — the…
Alan Turing institute launches new mission to protect UK from cyber-attacks
Robert Booth reports: Britain’s leading AI institute has announced a new mission to help protect the nation from cyber-attacks on infrastructure, including energy, transport and utilities, after it was embroiled in allegations of toxic work culture and the chief executive resigned amid ministerial pressure. The Alan Turing Institute will “carry out a programme of science and innovation designed to…
US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
Jonathan Greig reports: More than 70 countries signed the landmark UN Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi this weekend, a significant step in the yearslong effort to create a global mechanism to counteract digital crime. The U.K. and European Union joined China, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and dozens of other nations in signing the convention, which lays out new…