On Feb. 28, multiple police forces carried out a coordinated action against two suspected members of the cybercrime gang behind the DoppelPaymer ransomware. These latest raids, revealed on March 6 by Europol, follow a series of other law enforcement campaigns against prominent ransomware groups in recent years. “We’ve seen an increase in the velocity of…

In a report to lawmakers, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said Clearview AI‘s collection of images without consent and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)’s use of that database were illegal. The software startup has stockpiled more than three billion images grabbed from popular social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, as well as millions…