Disney said Disney Plus account passwords being sold in underground hacking forums are coming from previous breaches at other companies, predating last week’s launch of its streaming service. The company reiterated Wednesday that it found no evidence of a security breach and that account problems are limited to “a very small percentage of users” of Disney Plus. Disney and other traditional media companies are trying to capture the subscription revenue…

Stalkerware is a growing social problem with potentially dire personal consequences. It is a complex issue with no simple solution — but ten organizations have come together to create the global Coalition Against Stalkerware to provide victim support and cybersecurity expertise. The founding organizations are Avira, Electronic Frontier Foundation, European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence, G DATA Cyber Defense, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, National Network to End Domestic…

A 20-year-old Cypriot wanted for hacking offences in the United States is set to be the country’s first citizen to be extradited there, his lawyer said Monday. The FBI accuses Joshua Epifaniou of extorting thousands of dollars from US firms while still a teenager by breaking into their IT systems and threatening to leak their data if they didn’t pay. Following a protracted case, during which Epifaniou spent almost two…

An Illinois man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for his role as administrator of stresser services that launched millions of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The man, Sergiy P. Usatyuk, 21, of Orland Park, Illinois, pled guilty earlier this year to owning, administering, and supporting booter services and booter-related websites between August 2015 and November 2017. These services include ExoStress.in, QuezStresser.com, Betabooter.com, Databooter.com, Instabooter.com, Polystress.com, and Zstress.net. Usatyuk worked…