Headline-making news in information security, cyber security, privacy, and AI, from 2010 to today.
An attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network, launched as Russia invaded Ukraine, knocked tens of thousands of satellite modems offline across Europe.
A critical flaw in the widely used Apache Log4j logging library, dubbed Log4Shell, triggers a worldwide scramble to patch.
Amazon discloses a €746 million fine from Luxembourg’s data protection regulator over targeted advertising, a record GDPR penalty.
A media consortium reports that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used against journalists, activists, and politicians worldwide.
REvil exploits Kaseya’s VSA remote management software, hitting managed service providers and up to 1,500 downstream businesses.
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.