FBI-run encrypted app Anom leads to 800 arrests worldwide
8 Jun 2021
Police reveal Operation Trojan Shield, in which criminals used the FBI-controlled Anom phone app, leading to over 800 arrests.
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Police reveal Operation Trojan Shield, in which criminals used the FBI-controlled Anom phone app, leading to over 800 arrests.
Ireland’s Health Service Executive shuts down its IT systems after a Conti ransomware attack, disrupting hospitals across the country.
A DarkSide ransomware attack forces Colonial Pipeline to halt the largest fuel pipeline on the US East Coast, causing shortages.
Phone numbers and personal details of 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries appear for free on a hacking forum.
Microsoft patches four Exchange Server zero-days exploited by a group it calls Hafnium, leading to tens of thousands of compromised servers.
Law enforcement from eight countries, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, disrupts Emotet, one of the most widespread malware networks.
OpenAI introduces DALL-E, a model that generates images from text descriptions, alongside the image-text model CLIP.
SolarWinds confirms its Orion software updates were trojanised, giving attackers access to US agencies and many other organisations.
DeepMind’s AlphaFold predicts protein structures with accuracy that CASP organisers say largely solves a 50-year-old challenge in biology.
Vastaamo, a Finnish psychotherapy provider, reveals a breach of patient records, and tens of thousands of patients are targeted with extortion.
A ransomware attack forces Düsseldorf University Hospital to turn away emergency patients, prompting a police investigation.
Garmin suffers a multi-day global outage of its fitness and aviation services, reported to be caused by WastedLocker ransomware.