This is not the first time threat actors have used drivers signed by Microsoft in their operations, as we know it, and it seems that putting a stop to this practice has not been an easy task for Microsoft. Evidence suggests that the Cuba ransomware gang used malicious hardware drivers certified by Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Developer […]
Uber Downplays Data Breach Impact, Claims No Sensitive Data Stolen – Uber is downplaying a data breach that occurred on Thursday, saying that no sensitive data was exposed.
August 2022 has been a lesson in being careful with whom you provide sensitive information. In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. Meanwhile, the bastion of password security, LastPass, announced that its systems had been […]
Here’s this week’s BWAIN, our jocular term for a Bug With An Impressive Name. BWAIN is an accolade that we hand out when a new cybersecurity flaw not only turns out to be interesting and important, but also turns up with its own logo, domain name and website. This one is dubbed ÆPIC Leak, a pun on […]
Experts warn of hacker claiming access to 50 U.S. companies through breached MSP Cybersecurity experts are raising concerns about an individual on a hacker forum claiming to have access to 50 American companies through an unnamed managed service provider (MSP). MSPs are paid to manage IT infrastructure and provide support, typically by smaller organizations lacking […]
At least 60 entities worldwide have been breached by BlackCat ransomware, warns a flash report published by the U.S. FBI. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a flash report that states that at least 60 entities worldwide have been breached by BlackCat ransomware (aka ALPHV and Noberus) since it started its operations in November. “The Federal […]
In March, we discovered 88 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 3,987,593 breached records. That brings the total number of breached records in the first quarter of 2022 to 75,099,482. We’ll be providing more stats from Q1 2022 in our quarterly review of cyber security incidents, which will be published on our website in […]
Chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed a data breach after the recently disclosed security incident, proprietary information stolen. The chipmaker giant Nvidia was recentty victim of a ransomware attack that impacted some of its systems for two days. The security breach is not connected to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the incident. The […]
The FBI warned US organizations and individuals are being increasingly targeted in BECattacks on virtual meeting platforms The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned this week that US organizations and individuals are being increasingly targeted in BEC (business email compromise) attacks on virtual meeting platforms. Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise (BEC/EAC) is a sophisticated scam that targets both […]
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Avast discovered that a Chinese-language-speaking threat actor has compromised systems at National Games of China in 2021. The event took place on September 15, 2021 in Shaanxi (China), it is a national version of the Olympics with only local athletes. The attackers breached a web server on September 3rd and deployed multiple reverse web shells […]
Luke Irwin  1st December 2021 In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. With one month left in 2021, the annual total running total of compromised records is to just shy of 5 billion. Keep an eye out for our end-of-year report in the next few weeks, where we’ll […]
Alaskan health department still struggling to recover after ‘nation-state sponsored’ cyberattack
A researcher at vulnerability and red-team company Rapid7 recently uncovered a pair of risky security bugs in a digital home security product. The first bug, reported back in May 2021 and dubbed CVE-2021-39276, means that an attacker who knows the email address against which you registered your product can effectively use your email as a password to issue […]
Fortinet addresses a command injection vulnerability that can allow attackers to take complete control of servers running vulnerable FortiWeb WAF installs. An authenticated attacker could execute arbitrary commands as the root user on the underlying system via the SAML server configuration page. Experts pointed out that the flaw could be chained with an authentication bypass flaw that […]
Carnival Corp. this week confirmed that the data breach that took place in March might have exposed personal information about customers and employees of Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, and Princess Cruises. Carnival Corporation & plc is a British-American cruise operator, currently the world’s largest travel leisure company, with a combined fleet of over 100 vessels across […]
Source: Bleepingcomputer Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following the hack of Passenger Service System provider SITA in February 2021. The Indian national carrier first informed passengers that SITA was the victim of a cyberattack on March 19. “This is to inform […]
List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached – It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data […]
Don’t be fooled by the fact that we only recorded 20,995,371 breached records in March; it was one of the leakiest months we’ve ever seen, with 151 recorded incidents. By comparison, there was a seemingly Lilliputian 82 recorded breaches in January and 118 in February. The issue is that in far more cases than we’d […]
The hackers’ methods were unsophisticated: they gained access to Verkada through a “Super Admin” account, allowing them to peer into the cameras of all of its customers. Kottmann says they found a user name and password for an administrator account publicly exposed on the internet. News outlet Bloomberg has gone public with a dramatic cybersecurity news […]
Singapore telco says it has pulled back all use of Accellion’s file-sharing system FTA and is investigating the impact of a cybersecurity attack, having ascertained on February 9 that “files were taken” and customer data “may have” been compromised. Singtel says it is investigating the impact of a cybersecurity breach that may have compromised customer […]
