<p>The little-known surveillance vendor filed for bankruptcy in January, after years of peddling spyware to countries like Colombia.</p>

<p>Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking AT&amp;T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the companies, according to court records filed on Wednesday. Wagenius, who was a U.S. Army soldier, pleaded guilty to two counts of “unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information” on an online forum and via an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Security experts say the ‘draconian’ order would have global ramifications that make this a privacy ‘emergency for us all’</p>

<p>Apple is likely to stop providing its encrypted cloud service to U.K. users</p>

<p>Community Health Center (CHC), a Connecticut-based nonprofit healthcare provider, has confirmed that a hacker accessed the sensitive data of more than a million patients. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Thursday, CHC said it detected suspicious activity on its network on January 2 and determined that a “skilled criminal hacker” had accessed its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The hack at Change Healthcare stands as the biggest breach of U.S. medical data in history, exposing 190 million people&#8217;s data.</p>

<p>The number of individuals confirmed to be affected by the data breach is almost double the company&#8217;s previous estimate.</p>

<p>The ransomware attack on Change Healthcare affected over 100 million Americans, the health giant told regulators.</p>

<p>The cyberattack on Ascension ranks as the third-largest healthcare-related breach of 2024.</p>

<p>New details emerged about the Change Healthcare ransomware attack in Nebraska&#8217;s complaint.</p>

<p>The university&#8217;s incident website blocks search engines from listing the site, making it more difficult for affected individuals to find the website in search results.</p>

<p>Optum&#8217;s AI chatbot was found exposed online at a time when the healthcare giant faces scrutiny for its use of AI to allegedly deny patient claims.</p>

<p>Security researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the infotainment units used in some Skoda cars that could allow malicious actors to remotely trigger certain controls and track the cars&#8217; location in real time. PCAutomotive, a cybersecurity firm specializing in the automotive sector, unveiled 12 new security vulnerabilities impacting the latest model of the Skoda Superb [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning while walking toward the New York Hilton Midtown for his company’s annual investor conference. According to emerging media reports, Thompson was fired on from roughly 20 feet away by a masked gunman, who appeared to be waiting for Thompson, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In November, TechCrunch broke the news that cybersecurity startup Upwind was getting a lot of inbound interest to raise money on a big valuation. Now, we can confirm that the deal is done: Upwind has closed a Series A round of $100 million. The round values it at $900 million post-money. Craft Ventures, the investment [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former NBA athlete Omri Casspi has raised $60 million for his latest venture fund, Swish Ventures, which will invest in early-stage cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and AI startups. The fund plans to back 10 companies, and will invest $5 million to $7 million per deal. Swish Ventures is Casspi’s second fund following the launch of Sheva [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cybersecurity continues to command a lot of attention from enterprises looking for better protection from malicious hackers, and VCs want in on the action. In the latest example, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Upwind — a specialist in assessing and securing cloud infrastructure — is closing in on a $100 million round at a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The move to enable the MFA security feature comes hot on the heels of major data breaches at cloud giants, like Snowflake.</p>

<p>Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The operation had started two years earlier when that someone, a person nicknamed JiaT75, started contributing to the XZ Utils repository on GitHub. A [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Health insurance giant UnitedHealth blamed a ransomware gang for the data breach that included a substantial proportion of America&#8217;s health data.</p>