Ubisoft experienced a “cyber security incident” last week that temporarily disrupted some games, systems, and services, the company reported Thursday. Ubisoft hasn’t said who might be responsible, but on Friday evening, the group who purportedly hacked Nvidia took credit.

Data extortionists who stole up to 1 terabyte of data from Nvidia have delivered one of the most unusual ultimatums ever in the annals of cybercrime: allow Nvidia's graphics cards to mine cryptocurrencies faster or face the imminent release of the company's crown-jewel source code.

On February 24, the Russian military invaded Ukraine, attacking the nation’s capital and other major cities from the air, ground, and sea. “A full-scale war in Europe has begun,” Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told the Associated Press.

Ukraine has been hit by significant internet outages after a series of cyber attacks on its Government, banks and public authority websites in what the country has called “another act of cuber-aggression against Ukraine”.

Crypto-currency researchers say more than $400m of cyber-crime funds go to Russian gangs.

Kill switch could take hundreds of thousands offline. And Ukraine appears to be the target.

The defense agency said it was not responding to any specific threats but acting as a general precaution that conflict with Russia could lead to cyberattacks.

A recent study shows the tactics and techniques of a cybercrime group that is known for planting incriminating evidence on the devices of activists in India.

The illicit racket is said to have totaled $9.8 million

Last year, the FBI revealed it had been running a global honeypot operation to catch crooks. It turns out it had a bigger U.S. footprint than we thought. One of the weirder stories from last year involved a gargantuan FBI honeypot operation designed to catch crooks all over the world. According to Motherboard, that operation had a bigger imprint in the U.S. than originally believed.

Attackers who remain unidentified exploited a vulnerability in the Log4J library to compromise HP 9000 servers powered by AMD EPYC processors and mine the Raptoreum CPU cryptocurrency on these resources between December 9 and December 17. Consequently, the Raptoreum network’s hashrate doubled until the equipment was taken offline.

Bitmart’s CEO has confirmed what the company is calling a “security breach”

Vestas Wind Systems, a leader in wind turbine manufacturing, has shut down its IT systems after suffering a cyberattack.

Google researchers caught hackers targeting users in Hong Kong exploiting what were at the time unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s Mac operating system. According to the researchers, the attacks have the hallmarks of government-backed hackers.

New legislation introduced this week by US lawmakers aims to set ransomware attack response "rules of road" for US financial institutions. The Ransomware and Financial Stability Act (H.R.5936) was introduced this week by the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Congressman Patrick McHenry.

Two suspected criminal hackers have been charged in the United States in connection with a wave of ransomware attacks

Lupovis, a cybersecurity spin-out from the University of Strathclyde, has secured a pre-seed investment of over €700k from a syndicate co-led by Techstart Ventures and Nauta Capital, and investment form the University of Strathclyde itself.

The National Rifle Association has reportedly been hacked. A cybercriminal gang claims to have stolen the much maligned gun lobby’s data and has been posting samples of it to the internet.

A notorious Russian cybercriminal group has posted what appear to be National Rifle Association files to the dark web.

Data theft, the dark web's worth, and cybercriminals' behavior have all changed substantially in recent years, according to Bitglass. Using Bitglass's data tracking technology, Bitglass was able to undertake the world's first Dark Web data tracking experiment in 2015. After re-creating this experiment six years later, the Bitglass Threat Research Group concluded that as the world has become increasingly digital, there are a growing amount of data breaches.