Inc Ransomware Group Claims 5.7 TB Theft from Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office

The Inc ransomware gang claims to have stolen 5.7 TB of data from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office in an August 2025 attack. Find out how the breach unfolded, why government agencies are a top target, and what this means for citizens...

VirusTotal Finds 44 Undetected SVG Files Used to Deploy Base64-Encoded Phishing Pages

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware campaign that has leveraged Scalable Vector Graphics SVG files as part of phishing attacks impersonating the Colombian judicial system. The SVG files, according to VirusTotal, are distributed via email and designed to execute an embedded...

Cloak Ransomware Hits Virginia Attorney General’s Office, Disrupts IT Systems

Cloak ransomware group claims attack on Virginia attorney general's office, demands ransom for stolen data. Investigation underway. Find out the impact and what's being done...

Texas scrutinizes four more car manufacturers on privacy issues (updated)

The Texas Attorney General’s Office has started an investigation into how Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler collect, share, and sell consumer data, expanding an earlier probe launched last year into how modern automakers are potentially using customer driving data. We've addressed cars and...

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects...

“We will hold them accountable”: General Motors sued for selling customer driving data to third parties

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued General Motors GM for the unlawful collection and sale of over 1.5 million Texans’ private driving data to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent. In June, the Attorney General AG announced he had opened an investigation into several car...

A week in security (June 24 – June 30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: TEMU sued for being "dangerous malware" by Arkansas Attorney General Driving licences and other official documents leaked by authentication service used by Uber, TikTok, X, and more "Poseidon" Mac stealer distributed via Google ads Federal Reserve "breached" data m...

BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI disclosed today that it infiltrated the worlds second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gangs darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim...

iowaattorneygeneral.gov Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3770108

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Ticket scammers target Taylor Swift tour

Taylor Swift fans are being warned to be cautious when buying tickets for her current "Eras" tour, with scammers waiting in the wings to trick would-be gig goers. The Better Business Bureau says it has received somewhere in the region of 200 complaints from residents of Michigan, and theres bound...

Australia Passes Bill to Fine Companies up to $50 Million for Data Breaches

The Australian government has passed a bill that markedly increases the penalty for companies suffering from serious or repeated data breaches. To that end, the maximum fines have been bumped up from the current AU$2.22 million to AU$50 million, 30% of an entity's adjusted turnover in the relevan...

Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, recently filed a lawsuit against Facebooks parent company, Meta, for harvesting the facial recognition data of millions of Texan residents—for a decade. Paxton filed the lawsuit on Monday in the states Harrison County District Court. The suit contains...

New York AG Warns 17 Firms of Credential Attacks

New York Attorney General Letitia James reported 1.1 million credentials tied to 17 “well known” state businesses were compromised in recent cyberattacks. According to the alert, many of the firms were unaware that that their customer’s passwords had been compromised. The bulletin was issued...

AIs and Fake Comments

This month, the New York state attorney general issued a report on a scheme by "U.S. Companies and Partisans to Hack Democracy." This wasn’t another attempt by Republicans to make it harder for Black people and urban residents to vote. It was a concerted attack on another core element of US...

Wind River ‘Security Incident’ Affects SSNs, Passport Numbers

Wind River Systems, which develops embedded system software, on Friday warned of a “security incident” that had exposed personnel records. One or more files were downloaded from the company’s network on or around September 29, it said. Affected data included information maintained within the...

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

The California Privacy Rights Act CPRA was passed in November by voters in California. Adding another entry to the alphabet soup that is privacy regulations, the CPRA known as Proposition 24 when it was on the ballot expands on the states landmark consumer privacy law, the California Consumer...

Not Even William Barr Buys Trump’s Election Nonsense

The attorney general has long been one of the president’s chief apologists. Not this time...

Fake Coronavirus ‘Vaccine’ Website Busted in DoJ Takedown

The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website, “coronavirusmedicalkit.com,” was purporting to gi...

The GOP Is Mired in Conspiracies—and It's About to Get Worse

Opinion: If you thought the impeachment hearings were bad, wait until attorney general William Barr's internal investigation comes to light...

Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Speaking at Fordham University in New York, he admitted that adding backdoors decreases security but that it is worth it. Some hold this view dogmatically, claiming that it...