Plus, hackers target Ring devices for sport and Apple turns to satellite tech as an alternative to wireless networks
The U.S. Navy issued a bulletin announcing that the widely used social app TikTok is now seen as a cybersecurity threat and will no longer be allowed on any government-supplied devices. Reuters reported that the bulletin, posted on a Facebook page used by military personnel, warned government members that any device with the TikTok app installed would be blocked from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet. TikTok is a highly popular video-sharing app owned by the Beijing company ByteDance, which is currently under a U.S. national security review. The Navy is the second U.S. military branch to flag TikTok after Army leadership instructed cadets not to use the app last month.
This week’s stat
The FBI’s cybercrime report found that the second-costliest category of crime, behind only compromised business email, was confidence and romance fraud, with an annual cost of $363 million. The scams happened 18,493 times last year, the FBI reports – an average of more than 50 times a day.
Ransomers release some Pensacola files as proof
The Maze ransomware group, which earlier this month locked up municipal computer systems in Pensacola, Fla., and demanded a million dollar ransom, has released 2GB of the ransomed data to prove that they stole files in addition to encrypting them. The group explained to Bleeping Computer that the release was in response to a doubtin ..
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