The Calgary school says an extortion group tied to a $1.9 million ransom demand accessed personal data on a shared drive before wiping it to hinder recovery.

For years, ransomware has relied on human operators to adapt attacks, make decisions and move through compromised environments. New research suggests that may no longer be necessary.

Australia’s biggest telecoms company Telstra said on Wednesday a software fault triggered a nationwide outage that cut phone services for thousands of customers, disrupted wireless payments and halted trains.

France’s competition authority on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to resume talks with French media groups over payments for publishing content, after the publishers complained following the collapse of previous negotiations.

A ransomware group calling itself Unsafe says it has infiltrated Deutsche Bank’s internal systems, posting employee records as proof and reviving scrutiny of the bank’s cybersecurity history.

A cybercriminal known as "888" is offering data allegedly taken from the global consulting firm, including source code and access credentials, while Accenture says the matter has been contained.