Indian Pimpri Chinchwad police’s cyber cell is looking into a complaint where a hacker demanded $80,000 (over Rs 68 lakh) from a biopharmaceutical company in Hinjewadi to release encrypted data he had stolen. A senior employee contacted the police on Monday following a threatening email received on April 27. A …

This week, Apple notified several individuals it believes were targeted by government spyware, according to two of those individuals. As of Wednesday, only two people have reported receiving notifications from Apple this week. Ciro Pellegrino, an Italian journalist for Fanpage, reported receiving an email and text from Apple on Tuesday …

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password-protected database with 520,054 records from an event ticket resale platform and reported it to vpnMentor. The unprotected public database had 520,054 records totaling 200 GB. It was labeled as containing customer inventory files in PDF, JPG, PNG, and JSON formats. A review of …