A Chinese software developer trawled Alibaba’s popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, clandestinely collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information.

Ryuk is the most prolific ransomware gang in the world, accounting for one-third of the 203 million U.S. ransomware attacks in 2020, according to cybersecurity firm SonicWall.

DarkSide has told associates it has lost access to the infrastructure it uses to run its operation and would be shutting down, citing pressure from law enforcement and from the U.S., FireEye said.

Late last year more than 100 firms were threatened with DDoS attacks unless they paid off a group that variously posed as Fancy Bear and Lazarus, the industry group FS-ISAC said.

Suspected Russian hack involving SolarWinds software that compromised parts of the U.S. government was executed on a scale that has surprised even veteran security experts.

North Korean hackers have targeted at least six pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., the U.K. and South Korea working on Covid-19 treatments, according to people familiar with the matter.

Two men accused of trading on information hacked from a government database will pay $425,000 to settle regulatory claims, a fraction of the illegal profits they were alleged to have earned.

The NSA warned that Chinese government hackers were taking aim at U.S. networks involved in defense, characterizing the threat posed by Beijing as a critical priority in need of urgent attention.

The illegal release late last week of sensitive information from the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, with about 320,000 students, demonstrates an escalation in tactics for hackers.

Out of 12,000 local election officials, over 1,600 were found using free or nonstandard email software that could leave them vulnerable to online attacks, according to a report by Area 1 Security.