The German car giant appears to be unconcerned The 8Base ransomware crew claims to have stolen a huge data dump of Volkswagen files and is threatening to publish them, but the German car giant appears to be unconcerned....

PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without incident - unlike Volkswagen, which last week admitted it exposed data describing journeys made by some of its electric vehicles, plus info about the vehicle's owners....

More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam Germany's Braunschweig Regional Court has reportedly sentenced four Volkswagen executives to jail over Dieselgate" - the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have fudged software used to test its vehicles' pollution emissions....