Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) was hit by a cyber attack, threat actors stole personal information from its email system. US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their email system. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EWA).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, T-Mobile). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday T-Mobile confirmed a data breach but announced that it was still investigating the extent of the security breach. The company announced to have started a “deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In February 2022, the American media and publishing giant News Corp revealed it was the victim of a cyber attack from an advanced persistent threat actor that took place in January 2022. The attackers compromised one of the company systems and had access to the emails and documents of some employees.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 20, 2020

How do most data breaches occur? Who are the threat actors behind these cyber attacks? And what are key attacker motivations? The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has the answers. 2020 DBIR cybercrime report and key statistics. Why is this?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 15, 2021

T-Mobile that occupies over 35% of mobile subscriber base in United States has launched a detailed probe after receiving several media concerns that over 100 million T mobile customer data was available on sale on the dark web. Interestingly, the hackers’ forum doesn’t hold recognition that the data is related to T-Mobile customers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This post includes the details of the COVID-19 themed attacks launched from October 1 to December 5, 2020. Below a list of attacks detected between October 1 to December 5, 2020. October 26 – COVID19 vaccine manufacturer suffers a data breach. SecurityAffairs – hacking, COVID).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

. “On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 05 to April 11, 2020. Below a list of attacks detected this week. April 09 – Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) is hacking crooks behind COVID19-themed attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology suffered a ransomware attack, now it has confirmed also a data breach. This week, Cognizant reported to the Office of the Attorney General of California that intruders were able to exfiltrated “a limited amount of data from Cognizant’s systems.”. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 suffered a security breach and hackers asked for a “donation” to provide information on the flaws they exploited in the attack. That is why we believe it is important to inform you of this incident,” e27, Asia's Largest Tech Media Platform, notified its users of a cyber attack and data breach!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed. The Australian P&N Bank is notifying its customers a data breach that has exposed personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive account data. pic.twitter.com/BywQtf6qSE — Nick (@vrNicknack) January 15, 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

” reads the data breach notification published by the company. “At this time, we strongly believe that the incident was the result of a ransomware attack and do not have any evidence that customer or employee data was accessed or exfiltrated, nor do we believe our clients’ networks were impacted.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

“In light of this, I would urge any customers who have been affected by this breach to be wary of any unexpected communications they might now receive, whether that’s over email, text messages or phone calls. Data breaches continue to be a scourge of enterprises. million – was down 20 percent. million – was down 20 percent.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

Malicious hacks are significant problems for the public and companies alike. They damage corporate reputations and expose the sensitive data of millions of people. It’s also valuable to consider the sheer amount of compromised data a cybersecurity breach could cause.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Initially, UN experts stated that no data was exfiltrated, but Resecurity’s team found evidence of a data breach. In January 2020, an internal confidential report from the United Nations that was leaked to The New Humanitarian revealed that dozens of servers of the organization were “compromised” at offices in Geneva and Vienna.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9 SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The agency sent a data breach notification to its employees last week informing them of a security breach that took place last year between May and July.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Qualys seems to have suffered a data breach, threat actors allegedly exploited zero-day flaw in their Accellion FTA server. Cybersecurity firm Qualys is the latest victim of a cyber attack, the company was likely hacked by threat actors that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in their Accellion FTA server.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Cyber insurance premiums have jumped about 12 percent between the beginning of 2018 and the end of 2020. According to a report by credit-rating organization Fitch Ratings, cyber insurance premiums in the United States rose 22 percent year-over-year in 2020, to almost $3 billion. Insurers Assessing Risks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2021

Dassault Falcon Jet has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. In December Dassault, Dassault Falcon Jet (DFJ) was the victim of a cyber attack that may have exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. ” states the notice.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

British airline EasyJet announced it was the victim of a “highly sophisticated” cyber attack that exposed email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers. However, this is an evolving threat as cyber attackers get ever more sophisticated,” says EasyJet Chief Executive Officer Johan Lundgren.

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Hacker Combat

JULY 8, 2022

In a leak that, if verified, could be one of the biggest data breaches in history, hackers might have obtained a wealth of information belonging to over I billion Chinese from a database owned by Shangai police. The Associated Press was able to view a section of the data, which included names, ages, birthdates, and phone numbers.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If your organization is attacked by nation-state backed threat actors, can those involved hide behind claims of diplomatic immunity? Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that it can during a December 2020 decision. The kind of data breach harm we often hear discussed at virtual SecureWorld conferences. In the U.S.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

FBI and CISA on a joint note issued a public alert that computer networks of government and corporate companies were on the verge of being targeted by a cyber attack on this coming Labor Day weekend, i.e on September 6th of 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. The importance of data and the power of being an insights-driven enterprise are increasing the amount of damage that data breaches can cause. Unfortunately, privacy compliance is still lagging.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Officials said the group has been targeting dozens of US state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks since at least February 2020. Energetic Bear successfully compromised the infrastructure and as of October 1, 2020, exfiltrated data from at least two victim servers. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

At this time the company has yet to disclose the type of attack that hit its systems and no cybercriminal group has yet to claim responsibility for the attack. A company spokesman declared that there are no indications of a data breach. On December 28, 2020, ThyssenKrupp Materials group of companies based in U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Pierluigi Paganini. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

Video game company Ubisoft has suffered a ‘cyber security incident’ that had a severe impact on games, systems, and services. The rumors of a cyber attack against Ubisoft circulated online in the last few days, while data extortion group LAPSUS$ claimed to have hacked the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

People cited by Bloomberg confirmed that the cyber attack aimed at slowing the agency’s systems down. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

com service that had been previously selling access to data from data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. SecurityAffairs – hacking, WeLeakInfo). Pierluigi Paganini.

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