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Should we ban ransom payments? It’s not that simple techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/sho…

NEW: The U.S. National Security Agency has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers exploiting flaws in Ivanti’s widely used enterprise VPN appliance have targeted organizations across the U.S. defense sector techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/nsa…

New: A tech company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts.

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NEW: The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior hacked the department's cloud infrastructure and stole fake personal data.

The experiment showed that DOI 'failed to implement security measures' to stop hackers.

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NEW: UnitedHealth Group has confirmed a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare, which continues to disrupt hospitals and pharmacies. UnitedHealth confirmed the ransomware gang behind the attack is ALPHV. Zack Whittaker has more: techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/uni…

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NEW: A number of popular doorbells have a security flaw that allows hackers to take over the camera by just holding down a button, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/pop…

Feds hack LockBit, LockBit springs back. Now what? tcrn.ch/3wCUigm

NEW: An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned.

The ongoing cyberattack has resulted in outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/ran…

Researchers say a pair of easy-to-exploit flaws in ConnectWise ScreenConnect, a remote access tool used by more than a million companies, are now being mass-exploited, with hackers abusing the vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware and steal sensitive data techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/res…

LoanDepot has confirmed that almost 17 million customers had data stolen during a January cyberattack, including financial account numbers and SSNs. Zack Whittaker has more: techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/loa…

NEW: Someone leaked a trove of internal documents and communications from I-Soon, a mercenary hacking group that works for the Chinese government.

Security researchers call it a 'first-of-its-kind' look behind the curtain of Chinese government hacking.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/23/iso…

NEW: UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation state, as pharmacy outages across the U.S. drag on.

UHG did not attribute the cyberattack to a specific nation or government, nor did it have a timeframe for when its systems would return online.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/uni…

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US insurance giant UnitedHealth says in a govt filing that its health tech & patient data subsidiary Change Healthcare was hacked by a suspected 'nation-state' actor.

More on what we know so far: techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/cha…

Security experts say a pair of high-risk ConnectWise flaws are being exploited to deploy LockBit ransomware - days after authorities announced that they had disrupted the notorious Russia-linked cybercrime gang techcrunch.com/2024/02/23/hac….

NEW: The U.S. FTC said it will ban the antivirus giant Avast from selling consumers’ web browsing data to advertisers.

Avast will pay $16.5 million to settle the FTC's allegations that it sold the sensitive browsing data of millions of its customers.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/ftc…

U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems.

In a brief statement, the company said it was “experiencing a network interruption related to a cyber security issue.” tcrn.ch/42S4MEL