Cybercrime

Mortgage servicing giant Mr. Cooper has been dealing the with the impact of a cyberattack since Oct. 31 that caused it to temporarily take systems like online payments offline.

Boeing is investigating a claim made by cybercrime group Lockbit, which says it hacked sensitive data from the aerospace giant and will release it November 2 if ransom isn't paid.

Google’s Gmail said that it will now require bulk senders of more than 5,000 messages a day to begin authenticating their emails in 2024 to stay under a reported spam threshold.

Clorox is the latest company to disclose the details of a cyber attack it faced last month that hindered its operations and will impact its quarterly earnings.

MGM Resorts International confirmed a recent cyberattack that is affecting computer systems and websites in a Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Tech giant Microsoft is warning that artificial intelligence-powered threats to the U.S. public are being developed and rolled out by China and North Korea.

The dawn new generative artificial intelligence tools are making lots of users much more efficient, including, apparently, hackers who are using ChatGPT, too.

Health officials in Massachusetts are warning more than 134,000 residents, who currently or were enrolled in certain state programs, that their personal data may have been stolen.

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers about a new mailing scam that hopes to mislead people into believing that they are owed a refund by the agency.

Republican lawmakers and the American Securities Association say the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is violating privacy by putting together investor list.

Criminals stole more than $1 billion from U.S. senior citizens last year, a staggering 78% increase from 2021. Experts warn seniors of red flags indicating they could be scammed.

A service disruption affecting 18,000 Microsoft users on June 5 is now confirmed to be the fault of a new hacker group which calls itself Anonymous Sudan.

After analyzing nearly 5,200 data breaches in the past year, Verizon Business' Chris Novak claimed humans play a "substantial" role in the rise of cybersecurity crimes.

Point32Health, one of the largest health insurers in Massachusetts, is the victim of a recent ransomware attack. The information of members may have been compromised in the attack.

Chinese state-sponsored actor Volt Typhoon is carrying out cyberattacks on "critical infrastructure organizations" in the U.S., according to Microsoft.

The Treasury Dept. released its first-ever illicit finance risk assessment of decentralized finance (DeFi) services to cybercriminals and state actors like North Korea.

Law enforcement officials in the United States and Europe said a takedown of cybercriminals behind malware operation. Authorities also seized 11 domain names tied to the Genesis Market.

AI and cybersecurity experts say deepfakes and cybercrimes could multiply if criminals take advantage of artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT.

A shortage of cybersecurity professionals has that segment of the tech industry hiring even as companies including Amazon, Facebook's Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Twitter cut jobs.

European authorities, with help from the FBI, have identified members of a Russian-affiliated cybercrime gang responsible for targeting major companies and institutions with ransomware.