Belgium is investigating an alleged data breach of its state security service (VSSE) by Chinese government hackers. In a statement sent to TechCrunch on Friday, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said an investigation into a cyberattack was opened in November 2023 after it learned about the alleged breach. This confirms an earlier report by the … Read more
Venture capital company Insight Partners on Feb. 18 confirmed that the firm experienced a cyber incident caused by an unspecified social-engineering attack.The case raised some eyebrows in the cybersecurity community especially since Insight Partners’ portfolio includes some big names in the security industry such as Abnormal Security, Checkmarx, Cylance, Island, JFrog, Mimecast, Recorded Future, SentinelOne, … Read more
U.S.-based venture capital firm Insight Partners has confirmed that hackers breached its systems in January. When reached by TechCrunch, Insight Partners confirmed the cybersecurity incident in a statement published Tuesday. Calcalist first reported the breach earlier in the day. In its statement, Insight Partners said it detected that an “unauthorized third party” had accessed “certain … Read more
DOGE as a National Cyberattack In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national … Read more
Ascension Health on Dec. 19 started sending out letters to the 5.6 million patients who were affected by a ransomware attack that was originally detected last May. When news of the cybersecurity incident broke last spring there were reports that numerous hospitals in the Ascension network lost access to their electronic health records systems, certain … Read more
