<p>The California agency said National Public Data failed to register in the state as a data broker.</p>

<p>The prolific Medusa ransomware group claims to have stolen troves of data from HCRG, including patients’ sensitive health data</p>

<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>The company said an &#8220;unauthorized third party&#8221; accessed Genea data, but won’t say if sensitive health information was stolen</p>

<p>The US cybersecurity giant says hackers are exploiting the high-severity flaw to break into unpatched customer networks.</p>

<p>The VC firm has $90 billion in assets under management and invested in several unicorn cybersecurity startups</p>

<p>Researchers found that PirateFI was never designed to be a real game, but a vehicle to infect gamers with malware and steal their passwords with an infostealer called Vidar.</p>

<p>Lee said it was analyzing whether sensitive or personal data was stolen in the cyberattack.</p>

<p>Talk of backdoors in encrypted services is once again doing the rounds after reports emerged that the U.K. government is seeking to force Apple to open up iCloud&#8217;s end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) device backup offering. Officials were said to be leaning on Apple to create a &#8220;backdoor&#8221; in the service that would allow state actors to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic — was close to announcing work on a major new, $10 billion+ subsea cable project to connect up the globe. The aim was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The gaming giant told affected users: &#8220;Consider fully reformatting your operating system&#8221;</p>

<p>Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers.</p>

<p>Identity security company CyberArk has acquired identity governance and administration (IGA) platform Zilla Security in a deal worth up to $175 million. The transaction consists of a $165 million cash portion and an additional $10 million &#8220;earn-out&#8221; which is payable upon meeting certain milestones &#8212; it can be seen as an incentive for the founders [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The layoffs come soon after Sophos completed its $859 million acquisition of Secureworks.</p>

<p>Variston, a Barcelona-based spyware vendor, has reportedly shut down. Intelligence Online, a trade publication that covers the surveillance and intelligence industry, reports that a legal notice published in Barcelona’s registry on February 10 confirmed that Variston has been liquidated. TechCrunch has also seen the legal notice saying Variston has shuttered. This comes almost a year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Threat intelligence firm Recorded Future said it had observed Salt Typhoon breaching 5 telcos between December 2024 and January 2025.</p>

<p>Drata, a security compliance automation platform&nbsp;that helps companies adhere to frameworks such as SOC 2 and GDPR, has acquired software security review startup SafeBase for $250 million. SafeBase co-founders Al Yang (CEO) and Adar Arnon (CTO) will retain their roles, and SafeBase will continue to offer a stand-alone product while bringing its core solutions to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: In the world of cloud services, where network assets and apps can range far and wide, the biggest vulnerabilities are often leaked and spoofed log-in credentials.  A startup called SGNL has built a new approach that it believes is better at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Four people have so far come forward as victims of the Paragon spyware campaign targeting WhatsApp users, including one journalist and three activists. </p>