AlJazeera reports: China has fined ride-hailing giant Didi almost $1.2bn for “egregious” violations of data security rules, capping a year-long probe that torpedoed the startup’s stock price and forced its delisting from the United States stock market. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on Thursday it fined the startup 8.026 billion yuan after finding…
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Zuckerberg to Testify Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach
Corinne Reichert reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify in a lawsuit over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach. Current COO Sheryl Sandberg, who is leaving Meta in the fall, has also been asked to provide testimony, as reported earlier Wednesday by Gizmodo. Zuckerberg will be deposed for up to 6 hours and Sandberg for 5 hours in September,…
CERT-MX suffers credibility #FAIL, accuses DataBreaches.net of disclosing unauthorized info.
Is Mexico’s CERT / Guardia Nacional suffering from heat exhaustion, bad AI, or political pressure? How else can we explain their bizarre attempt to take down this site? Long-time readers of this site know that over the past 16 years or so that I have been blogging, I have been the recipient of all kinds…
Romanian National Known As “Virus” Extradited For Operating “Bulletproof Hosting” Service That Facilitated The Distribution Of Destructive Malware
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that MIHAI IONUT PAUNESCU, a/k/a “Virus,” a dual Romanian and Latvian national, was extradited from Colombia for allegedly running a…
Justice Department Seizes and Forfeits Approximately $500,000 from North Korean “Maui” Ransomware Actors and their Conspirators
The Justice Department today announced a complaint filed in the District of Kansas to forfeit cryptocurrency paid as ransom to North Korean hackers or otherwise used to launder such ransom payments. In May 2022, the FBI filed a sealed seizure warrant for the funds worth approximately half a million dollars. The seized funds include ransoms…
Inside The Russian Cybergang Thought To Be Attacking Ukraine—The Trickbot Leaks
Davey Winder reports: … I can exclusively report that threat intelligence specialist Cyjax has today published an in-depth analysis delving deep into the heart of the Trickbot cybergang. Months of painstaking research through hundreds of leaked documents has resulted in what is possibly the most comprehensive breakdown of a significant international cybercrime syndicate I’ve seen. Covering…