A spokesperson for the company confirmed the incident but declined to provide specifics on how many factories in North America were impacted. Foxconn has factories in Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Indiana and several across Mexico.
The letter noted that many Americans are unaware that their data is being used to set variable prices, a trend that is particularly pervasive for online shoppers.
West Pharmaceutical Services filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday evening warning customers that a hacker breached the company network on May 4, stole data and encrypted systems.
The report, released by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, alleges that the European Commission has failed to effectively police member states' surveillance tech sales despite the 2021 implementation of updated bloc-wide export rules designed to rein in the practice.
TrendAIβ’ Research has identified two emerging threat campaignsβSHADOW-AETHER-040 and SHADOW-AETHER-064βthat use agentic AI to drive intrusion operations against government and financial organizations in Latin America, marking these among the first cases we have observed of AI agents executing attacks from initial access to data exfiltration.
A China-aligned threat group is exploiting unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities to conduct cyberespionage against government and critical infrastructure targets across Asia and beyond.
In addition to fines, Texas is asking a judge to prevent Netflix from illegally collecting and sharing user data and to mandate that the company no longer use autoplay by default on kidsβ profiles.
The router deadline, originally slated for March 1, 2027, has been pushed back to at least January 1, 2029, according to the announcement from the FCCβs Office of Engineering and Technology (OET).
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fined South Staffordshire Water Β£963,900 ($1.3 million) on Monday over an attack by the Cl0p ransomware group that led to the personal data of 633,887 customers and employees being published in August 2022.
The issue was found in the same area of the Linux kernel that produced last monthβs Copy Fail bug, and also allows anyone with a basic account on an affected computer to seize full administrative control.
The Instructure Canvas breach affects universities, Kβ12 school districts, and teaching hospitals globally. This blog entry intends to provide context and practical guidance.
The settlement, announced by California officials Friday, is the largest fine issued under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in its more than five-year history.
Slovakian national Alan Bill, 33, pleaded guilty in January to a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances charge after admitting to his role in running Kingdom Market β a platform used by drug dealers and cybercriminals between March 2021 and December 2023.
A Virginia man was convicted on federal charges Thursday after a jury found him guilty of deleting 96 government databases and stealing an individualβs password, leading their email account to be accessed without permission.
On Thursday, dozens of students took to social media to say they saw a message from a cybercriminal group as they navigated through Canvas, an educational platform created by Instructure that hosts teaching materials, tests, readings and more.
Researchers at Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said they identified overlapping infrastructure and tools used by both groups β including command-and-control systems operating on the same compromised host β suggesting some coordination.
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: US gov targets 72-hour patch cycles, malware uses Windows Phone Link to steal OTPs, spy operation targets Eurasian drone industry.
Incident responders from cybersecurity firm Rapid7 published a report about a recent intrusion that initially appeared to be a Chaos ransomware attack but was later discovered to be an attack attributed to MuddyWater, an Iranian APT group tied to the countryβs Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).