Australia has imposed cyber sanctions on a Russian hacker for his alleged role in a 2022 ransomware attack. This is the country’s first use of this penalty. A cyberattack stole personal data from 9.7 million Medibank customers in Australia. The data includes names, birth dates, medical information, and Medicare numbers. …

Apple’s first zero-day of 2024 has been disclosed, with fixes pushed out for MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Apple describes CVE-2024-23222 as a type confusion bug in Webkit. They are aware of a report suggesting that this issue might have been exploited. “Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary …

A ransomware attack on a data center run by Finnish IT company Tietoevry has caused widespread outages in Sweden, affecting healthcare, government services, retail outlets, and the largest cinema chain in the country. Tietoevry, a publicly traded company based in Espoo, Finland, reported that an attack occurred over the weekend. …