Cyber Security

Microsoft on Friday said it detected Russian and North Korean hackers trying to steal intelligence from pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers.

Scammers impersonating the Internal Revenue Service are perfecting the art of fraud, according to a new report.

National intelligence leadership said Tuesday night that while Election Day had been a good day for U.S. cybersecurity, the country is "not out of the woods yet." 

A man has agreed to pay Delta Air Lines $1 million in restitution by Jan. 27, 2021, after admitting to trafficking computer passwords associated with the carrier’s SkyBonus program.

The Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued a warning about foreign actors who might try to sow chaos leading into Election Day.

Two former eBay Inc employees pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in a cyber stalking campaign against a Massachusetts couple whose online newsletter was viewed by top executives as critical of the e-commerce company.

The group of Russian hackers accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election earlier this year targeted the email accounts of Democratic state parties in California and Indiana, and influential think tanks in Washington and New York, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The FBI has warned of a major ransomware threat to the U.S. healthcare sector.

Sixty people have been charged in a widespread magazine telemarketing scam that authorities say netted $300 million from more than 150,000 elderly and vulnerable people nationwide.

Microsoft says Iranian hackers have posed as conference organizers in Germany and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to break into the email accounts of “high-profile” people with spoofed invitations.

The agency called on the department to take precautions against malicious campaigns

Sweden is banning Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE from building new high-speed wireless networks after a top security official called China one of the country’s biggest threats.

A UK information commission has slapped British Airways with a fine of more than $25.9 million fine allegedly failing to protect roughly 400,000 employees’ customers’ personal information prior to a cyberattack in 2018.

A simple phone scam was the key first step in the Twitter hack that took over dozens of high-profile accounts this summer, New York regulators say.

Anthem, the health insurance company behind Blue Cross-Blue Shield, has agreed to pay nearly $40 million in another settlement over a 2015 cyberattack that compromised the personal information belonging to nearly 79 million people.

Prosecutors said that in 2012, Nikulin, working from Moscow, hacked the computers of the San Francisco Bay Area companies, installed malware, stole login credentials for employees and used them to obtain customer data such as usernames and passwords that he offered for sale on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum.