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2022-09-28 11:03:48 |
Cyber Warfare Rife in Ukraine, But Impact Stays in Shadows (lien direct) |
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2022-09-27 18:44:39 |
Researchers Crowdsourcing Effort to Identify Mysterious Metador APT (lien direct) |
Cybersecurity sleuths at SentinelLabs are calling on the wider threat hunting community to help decipher a new mysterious malware campaign hitting telcos, ISPs and universities in the Middle East and Africa.
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2022-09-27 13:24:21 |
New Infostealer Malware \'Erbium\' Offered as MaaS for Thousands of Dollars (lien direct) |
Security researchers are warning of a new information stealer named Erbium being distributed under the Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) model.
The threat made its initial appearance in late July, when a Russian speaking threat actor started advertising it on a dark web forum.
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2022-09-27 12:24:20 |
Defense Giant Elbit Confirms Data Breach After Ransomware Gang Claims Hack (lien direct) |
Elbit Systems of America, a subsidiary of Israeli defense giant Elbit Systems, has confirmed suffering a data breach, a few months after a ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company's systems.
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2022-09-27 10:19:06 |
Australian Police Probe Purported Hacker\'s Ransom Demand (lien direct) |
Australian police were investigating a purported hacker's release of the stolen personal data of 10,000 Optus customers and demand for a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency, the telecommunications company's chief executive said Tuesday.
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2022-09-26 15:23:00 |
Hackers Leak French Hospital Patient Data in Ransom Fight (lien direct) |
Hackers who crippled a French hospital and stole a trove of data last month have released personal records of patients online, officials have confirmed.
The cyberattackers demanded a multimillion dollar ransom from the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital near Paris a month ago, but the institution refused to pay.
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2022-09-26 13:46:57 |
Australia Mulls Tougher Cybersecurity Laws After Data Breach (lien direct) |
The Australian government said on Monday it is considering tougher cybersecurity rules for telecommunications companies and blamed Optus, the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, for an unprecedented breach of personal data from 9.8 million customers.
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Data Breach
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2022-09-26 13:44:27 |
Breached American Airlines Email Accounts Abused for Phishing (lien direct) |
American Airlines discovered it was breached after receiving reports of employee email accounts being used in phishing attacks.
Last week, the airline started informing some of its customers that their personal data was likely compromised in a data breach identified in early July.
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Data Breach
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2022-09-26 11:33:08 |
Ukraine Cracks Down on Group Selling Hacked Accounts to Pro-Russia Propagandists (lien direct) |
Ukrainian authorities take down cybercrime group that hacked 30 million accounts
Ukrainian authorities say they have taken down a pro-Russia hacking group that compromised user accounts and then sold them for profit on dark web portals.
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2022-09-26 10:50:50 |
Hacktivist Attacks Show Ease of Hacking Industrial Control Systems (lien direct) |
Hacktivists might not know a lot about industrial control systems (ICS), but they're well aware of the potential implications of these devices getting compromised. That is why some groups have been targeting these systems - which are often unprotected and easy to hack - to draw attention to their cause.
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Hack
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2022-09-23 13:45:42 |
"Left and Right of Boom" - Having a Winning Strategy (lien direct) |
As security practitioners are painfully aware, it is not a matter of if but when their organization will come under cyberattack. Given this year's geopolitical events, the likelihood of falling victim to an attack has exponentially increased. And while the cybersecurity landscape will continue to evolve; many organizations seem to be holding on to the belief that deploying more preventive security tools will result in greater protection against these threats.
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2022-09-22 14:53:33 |
Twitter Logs Out Some Users Due to Security Issue Related to Password Resets (lien direct) |
Twitter said on Wednesday that some users have been logged out of their active sessions in response to a bug that posed a security risk.
The issue was related to password resets - when users reset their password, their active sessions on Android and iOS devices were not closed. Impacted users have been directly notified.
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2022-09-22 13:45:21 |
Australian Telecoms Firm Optus Discloses Breach Impacting Customer Data (lien direct) |
Australian telecoms company Optus has disclosed a data breach impacting the personal information of both former and current customers.
Founded in 1981, Optus is the second largest wireless services provider in Australia, with nearly 9.7 million subscribers. It's currently owned by Singapore Telecommunications.
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Data Breach
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2022-09-22 00:25:11 |
European Spyware Investigators Criticize Israel and Poland (lien direct) |
European Parliament members investigating the use of surveillance spyware by European Union governments sharply criticized Israel on Wednesday for a lack of transparency in allowing the sale of powerful Israeli spyware to European governments that have used it against critics.
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2022-09-21 10:35:00 |
iBoot Power Distribution Unit Flaws Allow Hackers to Remotely Shut Down Devices (lien direct) |
Critical vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in Dataprobe's iBoot power distribution unit (PDU) can allow malicious actors to remotely hack the product and shut down connected devices, potentially causing disruption within the targeted organization.
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Hack
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2022-09-21 10:14:28 |
VMware Warns of \'ChromeLoader\' Delivering Ransomware, Destructive Malware (lien direct) |
VMware's Carbon Black team warns that the ChromeLoader malware is now delivering malware such as ZipBomb and the Enigma ransomware to business services and government organizations.
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2022-09-20 15:05:06 |
CrowdStrike to Buy Reposify, Invests in Salt Security (lien direct) |
Endpoint detection and response pioneer CrowdStrike is elbowing its way into new security markets with a planned acquisition of attack surface management startup Reposify and a strategic investment in API security vendor Salt Security.
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2022-09-20 14:28:22 |
(Déjà vu) Over 50,000 Revolut Customers Affected by Data Breach (lien direct) |
Financial technology company Revolut has started informing some customers that it has been targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in their information getting compromised.
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Data Breach
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2022-09-20 13:48:57 |
Quantifying ROI in Cybersecurity Spend (lien direct) |
In cybersecurity, there are too many variables on both the attack and defense sides to easily calculate ROI for specific spends
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2022-09-20 12:43:44 |
New York Emergency Services Provider Says Patient Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack (lien direct) |
The personal information of roughly 320,000 individuals was compromised following a ransomware attack at New York-based ambulance services provider Empress EMS (Emergency Medical Services).
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2022-09-20 12:34:22 |
American Airlines Says Personal Data Exposed After Email Phishing Attack (lien direct) |
American Airlines is informing some customers that their personal information may have been compromised after threat actors gained access to employee email accounts.
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2022-09-20 10:29:21 |
EU Court Rules Against German Data Collection Law (lien direct) |
A German law requiring telecoms companies to retain customer data is a breach of EU legislation, a European court ruled Tuesday, prompting the justice minister to vow an overhaul of the rules.
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2022-09-19 19:02:09 |
Uber Confirms Hacker Accessed Internal Tools, Bug Bounty Dashboard (lien direct) |
Ride-hailing giant Uber is moving quickly to downplay the impact from a devastating security breach that included the theft of employee credentials, access to the HackerOne bug bounty dashboard and data from an internal invoicing tool.
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Uber
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2022-09-19 14:03:12 |
Rockstar Games Confirms Breach Leading to GTA 6 Leak (lien direct) |
Video game publisher Rockstar Games has confirmed suffering a network breach that resulted in videos from the upcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 game getting leaked.
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2022-09-19 13:24:40 |
Eyeglass Reflections Can Leak Information During Video Calls (lien direct) |
A group of academic researchers have devised a method of reconstructing text exposed via participants' eyeglasses and other reflective objects during video conferences.
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2022-09-19 10:47:33 |
LastPass Found No Code Injection Attempts Following August Data Breach (lien direct) |
Password management software provider LastPass says its investigation into the August 2022 data breach has not revealed any attempts to inject malicious code into LastPass software.
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2022-09-19 10:24:11 |
GTA 6 Videos and Source Code Stolen in Rockstar Games Hack (lien direct) |
The Rockstar Games hacker also claims to be behind the recent Uber breach
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Uber
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2022-09-17 16:14:00 |
Serious Breach at Uber Spotlights Hacker Social Deception (lien direct) |
The ride-hailing service Uber said Friday that all its services were operational following what security professionals are calling a major data breach, claiming there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data.
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Uber
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2022-09-16 11:07:32 |
Akamai Sees Europe\'s Biggest DDoS Attack to Date (lien direct) |
Akamai recently mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that set a new record for attacks targeting European organizations in terms of packets per second.
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2022-09-16 09:22:19 |
Uber Investigating Data Breach After Hacker Claims of Extensive Compromise (lien direct) |
Uber “responding to a cybersecurity incident” after hacker claims to have breached several systems
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2022-09-14 14:35:30 |
Bishop Fox Releases Open Source Cloud Hacking Tool \'CloudFox\' (lien direct) |
Cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox has announced the release of CloudFox, an open source tool designed to help find exploitable attack paths in cloud infrastructure.
The command line tool has been created for penetration testers and other offensive security professionals.
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2022-09-14 11:45:00 |
Malware Infects Magento-Powered Stores via FishPig Distribution Server (lien direct) |
For the past several weeks, Magento stores have been injected with malware via a supply chain attack that targeted the FishPig distribution server.
Specialized in Magento optimizations and Magento-WordPress integrations, FishPig offers various Magento extensions that have gathered over 200,000 downloads.
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2022-09-13 11:04:16 |
iOS 16 Rolls Out With Passwordless Authentication, Spyware Protection (lien direct) |
Apple this week has started rolling out iOS 16 with several security and privacy improvements meant to keep users protected from malware, state-sponsored attackers, and an abusive spouse.
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2022-09-13 10:15:39 |
Spyware, Ransomware, Cryptojacking Malware Increasingly Detected on ICS Devices (lien direct) |
Spyware, ransomware and cryptojacking malware have been increasingly detected on industrial control system (ICS) computers, according to data collected in the first half of 2022 by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.
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2022-09-13 09:42:44 |
U-Haul Says Customer Data Accessed Using Compromised Credentials (lien direct) |
Moving and storage giant U-Haul has started informing customers of a data breach impacting some of their personal information.
On Friday, U-Haul began sending notification letters to potentially impacted customers to inform them that compromised credentials were used to access some of their data without authorization.
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2022-09-12 11:34:17 |
Vulnerability in BackupBuddy Plugin Exploited to Hack WordPress Sites (lien direct) |
A recently resolved vulnerability in the BackupBuddy WordPress plugin has been exploited in malicious attacks since late August, Defiant's Wordfence team warns.
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2022-09-12 10:49:30 |
Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Pixel Phones (lien direct) |
Google's September 2022 security update for Pixel devices addresses two critical vulnerabilities. A total of 46 other security flaws were resolved in the Android platform this month.
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2022-09-10 16:01:37 |
Iran Strongly Condemns US Sanctions Over Albania Hacking (lien direct) |
Iran on Saturday strongly condemned a US decision to impose sanctions on its intelligence ministry, blamed for a major cyber attack on NATO ally Albania.
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2022-09-08 18:01:32 |
New \'Shikitega\' Linux Malware Grabs Complete Control of Infected Systems (lien direct) |
Security researchers with AT&T Alien Labs are warning of a new piece of malware that can take full control of infected Linux systems, including Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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2022-09-07 20:49:31 |
Cymulate Closes $70M Series D Funding Round (lien direct) |
Cymulate, a late-stage Israeli startup in the breach and attack simulation space, has closed a $70 million Series D funding round led by existing investor One Peak.
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2022-09-06 06:46:28 |
Samsung US Says Customer Data Compromised in July Data Breach (lien direct) |
Just before the Labor Day holiday weekend, electronics giant Samsung US announced that the personal information of some customers was compromised in a July data breach.
As part of the incident, which was identified roughly a month ago, an unauthorized third party gained access to some of Samsung's US systems and exfiltrated information stored on them.
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2022-09-04 16:17:40 |
KeyBank: Hackers of Third-Party Provider Stole Customer Data (lien direct) |
Hackers stole personal data including Social Security numbers, addresses and account numbers of home mortgage holders at KeyBank, the bank reports, in the breach of a third-party vendor that serves multiple corporate clients.
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2022-09-01 14:55:16 |
Cyber Safety for Summer Vacation (lien direct) |
Let's get back to summer travel.
My original title for this byline was “Hack for the Holidays,” but I decided that my ever-friendly content editor would likely reject the thought – however, the statement does highlight an area we should all consider.
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2022-09-01 14:29:19 |
Hardcoded AWS Credentials in 1,800 Mobile Apps Highlight Supply Chain Issues (lien direct) |
Symantec has discovered hardcoded AWS credentials in more than 1,800 mobile applications and warned of the potential risks associated with poor security practices.
While Symantec's threat hunting team has looked at both Android and iOS apps, nearly all of the applications containing hardcoded credentials were developed for iOS.
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2022-09-01 12:59:12 |
Ransomware Gang Claims Customer Data Stolen in TAP Air Portugal Hack (lien direct) |
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang says it has exfiltrated customer data in a cyberattack on Portuguese state-owned flag carrier airline TAP Air Portugal.
The incident was initially disclosed on August 26, when TAP announced on Twitter that it managed to foil the cyberattack before the threat actor could access any customer data.
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2022-08-31 16:26:49 |
FBI\'s Team to Investigate Massive Cyberattack in Montenegro (lien direct) |
A rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is heading to Montenegro to investigate a massive and coordinated attack on the tiny Balkan nation's government and its services, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Wednesday.
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2022-08-31 10:52:29 |
Cybercriminals Apparently Involved in Russia-Linked Attack on Montenegro Government (lien direct) |
Montenegro has been targeted in a disruptive cyberattack blamed on Russian hackers, and a known ransomware group may have been involved.
The country's Agency for National Security announced last week that government servers had been targeted in an ongoing attack that was described as massive and coordinated.
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2022-08-30 14:51:39 |
How Technology Can Think Globally and Act Locally to Inform Global Cyber Policies (lien direct) |
As a cybersecurity professional, I appreciate the impact that cyber policy can have on the adoption of and effective utilization of technology. We see this working today in very advanced, mature industries. In the automotive industry, policies around safety for instance, have done wonders to reduce the number of injuries resulting from an accident. Likewise, policies for manufacturing and chemical production help reduce the risk associated with handling dangerous chemicals.
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2022-08-30 13:22:35 |
2.5 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Nelnet Servicing (lien direct) |
The data of more than 2.5 million individuals was compromised in a recent data breach at technology services provider Nelnet Servicing.
The impacted individuals have taken student loans from Edfinancial and OSLA, which have contracted Nelnet for various services, including an online portal that student loan borrowers can use to access their accounts.
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2022-08-30 11:20:14 |
Google Launches Bug Bounty Program for Open Source Projects (lien direct) |
Google today introduced a new bug bounty program to reward security researchers who discover and report vulnerabilities in the company's open source projects.
As part of the new Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP), Google is offering bug bounty payouts of up to $31,337. The lowest vulnerability reward will be $100.
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