French authorities shut down a car theft ring last week that deployed malware to steal keyless cars.
With the help of Europol, Eurojust, and Spanish and Latvian police, French authorities dismantled a car theft ring that “used...
The parent company of women’s fashion website Shein, Zoetop, was fined $1.9 million after being accused of lying about the severity of its data breach and notifying "only a fraction" of impacted customers.
In 2018, Shein report...
Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives recently sat down with Antonio Rotolo, Co-Founder and CEO of Ludwig. She asked him how AI is changing our lives.
Safety Detectives: What motivated you to start your company?
Antonio Rotolo: I...
A ransomware attack on CommonSpirit, the second-largest nonprofit hospital chain in the US, caused overwhelmed emergency room nurses to take desperate measures, including calling 911 for help.
CommonSpirit operates more than 70...
A new version of an unofficial WhatsApp Android application called ‘YoWhatsApp’ was found stealing access keys for users' accounts.
YoWhatsApp is a fully functioning messenger app that uses the same permissions as the standard...
Google announced on Wednesday that it's introducing passkey support to its Chrome web browser and the Android operating system in order to simplify sign-ins across apps, websites, and devices.
“Passkeys are a significantly safe...
Toyota Motor Corporation warned last week that customers' personal information may have been exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for close to five years.
Toyota recently discovered that a portion of the...
Facebook’s owner, Meta, revealed to reporters last weekend that it would notify one million Facebook users that their login information may have been stolen due to security issues with apps downloaded from Google and Apple’s softw...
Following one of Australia’s largest data breaches, Australia Federal Police (AFP) said they arrested a young man on Thursday for allegedly attempting to use leaked Optus data to extort victims. Optus is a telecommunications compa...
Former Uber Chief Security Officer (CSO) Joseph Sullivan was convicted of obstructing proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by covering up a massive data breach in 2016.
The Uber hack of 2016 remains noteworthy as i...
