We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: MegaMod’s $1.9M seed deck
Welcome to our 100th pitch deck teardown! This week, I’m taking a look at MegaMod’s seed-stage pitch deck. MegaMod seems to be the latest darling of the gaming […]
Car dealership outages drag on after CDK cyberattacks
Software maker CDK says it will take “several days” to bring its systems back online following back-to-back cyberattacks, as car dealerships and auto shops around the U.S. reliant […]
Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans
Change Healthcare has confirmed a February ransomware attack on its systems, which brought widespread disruption to the U.S. healthcare system for weeks, resulted in the theft of medical […]
Fintech Torpago has a unique way to compete with Brex and Ramp: turning banks into customers
Fintechs often give banks a run for their money, pun intended, when it comes to using technology to improve the customer experience. Torpago, a commercial credit card and […]
What we learned from the indictment of LockBit’s mastermind
On Tuesday, U.S. and U.K. authorities revealed that the mastermind behind LockBit, one of the most prolific and damaging ransomware groups in history, is a 31-year-old Russian named […]
US, UK police identify and charge Russian leader of LockBit ransomware gang
The identity of the leader of one of the most infamous ransomware groups in history has finally been revealed. On Tuesday, a coalition of law enforcement led by […]
Police resurrect Lockbit’s site and troll the ransomware gang
An international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations […]
UnitedHealth data breach should be a wakeup call for the UK and NHS
The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, […]
Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO
The ransomware gang that hacked into U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials to remotely access the company’s systems that weren’t protected by […]