Carly Page

Carly Page

Reporter, Cybersecurity

Carly Page covers the cybersecurity beat for TechCrunch. She is a freelance technology journalist with more than a decade of experience in the industry, and served as editor of The INQUIRER from 2012 to 2019. You can reach her at carlypagewrites@gmail.com.

The Latest from Carly Page

Outsourcing giant Capita fears customer data stolen during ransomware attack

Capita, the British outsourcing company that provides critical services for the U.K. government, says hackers may have accessed customer data during a cyberattack last month. The London-based outsourc

3CX’s supply chain attack was caused by… another supply chain attack

The incident responders investigating how hackers carried out a complex supply-chain attack targeting enterprise phone provider 3CX say the company was compromised by another supply chain attack. 3CX

Russian hackers exploit six-year-old Cisco flaw to target US government agencies

APT28, a state-sponsored hacking group operated by Russian military intelligence, is exploiting a six-year-old vulnerability in Cisco routers to deploy malware and carry out surveillance, according to

Hackers publish sensitive employee data stolen during CommScope ransomware attack

Hackers published a trove of data stolen from U.S. network infrastructure giant CommScope, including thousands of employees’ Social Security numbers and bank account details. The North Carolina–ba

The crackdown on pixel tracking in telehealth is a warning for every startup

Healthcare firms are scrambling to reassess how their websites collect user data following HHS' web-tracking crackdown — and your startup could be next.

Microsoft patches Windows zero-day bug used in ransomware attacks

Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Windows, which researchers say hackers exploited to launch ransomware attacks. Microsoft said in a security alert on

3CX blames North Korea for supply chain mass-hack

Enterprise phone provider 3CX has confirmed that North Korea–backed hackers were behind last month’s supply chain attack that appeared to target cryptocurrency companies. 3CX, which provides onlin

Legal powerhouse Proskauer exposed clients’ confidential M&A data

A security lapse saw Proskauer Rose, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, expose sensitive client data for more than six months, TechCrunch has learned. A person with knowledge of

FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins

U.S. and international law enforcement agencies have seized Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace used to acquire compromised credentials and digital browser fingerprints. The FBI announced t

Western Digital says hackers stole data in ‘network security’ breach

Data storage giant Western Digital has confirmed that hackers exfiltrated data from its systems during a “network security incident” last week. The California-based company said in a state

There’s a new supply chain attack targeting customers of a phone system with 12 million users

Multiple security firms have sounded the alarm about an active supply chain attack that’s using a trojanized version of 3CX’s widely used voice and video-calling client to target downstream cu

Silence gets you nowhere in a data breach

An important lesson in how not to respond to a breach, courtesy of LastPass and Fortra.

Hackers used spyware made in Spain to target users in the UAE, Google says

In November 2022, Google revealed the existence of a then-unknown spyware vendor called Variston. Now, Google researchers say they have seen hackers use Variston’s tools in the United Arab Emirates.

Children’s data feared stolen in Fortra ransomware attack

The fallout from Fortra’s mass ransomware attack continues to widen as the hackers claim a new victim: a children’s virtual mental health care startup. In a data breach disclosure filed with t

Fortra told breached companies their data was safe

Software maker Fortra told its corporate customers that their data was safe — even when it wasn’t — following a ransomware attack on its systems, TechCrunch has learned. As we have been repo

New victims come forward after mass-ransomware attack

The number of victims affected by a mass-ransomware attack, caused by a bug in a popular data transfer tool used by businesses around the world, continues to grow as another organization tells TechCru

Ferrari says ransomware attack exposed customers’ personal data

Italian supercar manufacturer Ferrari said customers’ personal information was compromised in a ransomware attack. 

Nation state hackers exploited years-old bug to breach a US federal agency

The U.S. government has warned that multiple cybercriminal gangs, including a nation state-backed hacking group, exploited a four-year-old software vulnerability in order to compromise a U.S. federal

Dish customers kept in the dark as ransomware fallout continues

Dish customers are still looking for answers two weeks after the U.S. satellite television giant was hit by a ransomware attack. In a public filing published on February 28, Dish confirmed that ransom

Security giant Rubrik says hackers used Fortra zero-day to steal internal data

Silicon Valley–based data security company Rubrik has come forward as the latest victim of the Fortra GoAnywhere zero-day vulnerability, which has been linked to hacks targeting a hospital chain and
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