Some of the biggest names in the botnet game, including 911 S5 and TrickBot, have been seriously impacted. In some cases, arrests of central figures were made during the Europol law enforcement investigation.
As if Ticketmaster had not earned enough negative sentiment already, the company now appears to be dealing with a massive data breach impacting about 560 million Ticketmaster customers.
Kakao, parent company of popular messaging app KakaoTalk, is the recipient of a record-setting privacy fine of about $11.1 million only weeks after the previous record was established, as data leaks become more expensive for companies operating in South Korea.
ICE recently took a $10 million fine over its delays in reporting an April 2021 incident, in which a third party vendor was compromised. The company was found to have failed to provide the NYSE and other subsidiaries with timely notice.
Cyber attacks on DeFi protocols resulted in a $20 million theft at Sonne Finance totaling, and ALEX Lab had about $4.3 million stolen and investment firm BlockTower Capital lost about $1.5 million to hackers.
The UK now ranks the Chinese cyber threat as its top defense priority, and the US has joined it in issuing another dire warning about the risks to international stability and the critical infrastructure of rival nations.
Hackers were able to steal about 49 million customer records from Dell by merely registering as a company partner, which granted access to private order information.
The Breachforums hacking forum has now been raided by law enforcement for the third time since 2022, likely in no small part due to IntelBroker hitting Five Eyes and Europol within the space of a month.
Christie’s did not have to cancel any of the $578 million worth of art auctions during its busy period, but did have to push at least one back a day as it scrambled to work around reduced online functionality due to a cyber attack.
Europol looks to have been hit for some sensitive and classified information as a moderator with one of the biggest underground data trading forums claimed an attack and posted samples.