Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. “Upon learning of the incident, we immediately launched an investigation, engaged Mandiant, a leading security firm, and alerted law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

“For important security (and other related) reasons, UiPath is unable to name the source.” ” The user details were contained in a file that appears to be an older backup. The company pointed out that financial information either passwords were not exposed. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

Chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed a data breach after the recently disclosed security incident, proprietary information stolen. The security breach is not connected to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the incident. We are not hacked by a competitors groups or any sorts.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Aerial Direct’s data breach notification sent to the customers revealed that an unauthorized third party had been able to access customer data on 26 February through an external backup database. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, a threat actor is offering for sale its databases on a hacker forum. firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, data from an unsecured backup that were exposed on the Internet was sold by a threat actor on a hacker forum.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

They could also use the information in this breach to find more vulnerable prey, such as senior citizens. File Manipulation: This risk is dependent on how the municipalities use the data in the misconfigured buckets. If the files were simply used for backup storage, there’s little to no risk of property value manipulation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. They also explained that organizations can protect against the destruction of backups taking offline backups.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 8, 2019

All of cloud backup services for Office 365 admins perform the same primary function – they automatically backup your data. And this difference in “not what but how” is crucial for data security. And of course, read about how to use it to backup office 365 emails easily !

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. They also explained that organizations can protect against the destruction of backups taking offline backups.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2023

PlugX malware delivered by exploiting flaws in Chinese programs Prometei botnet evolves and infected +10,000 systems since November 2022 CISA adds VMware’s Cloud Foundation bug to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog Law enforcement seized the website selling the NetWire RAT and arrested a Croatian man Latest version of Xenomorph Android malware (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9 Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2021

Third-party risk management is important because failure to assess third-party risks exposes an organization to supply chain attacks , data breaches, and reputational damage. This is particularly important for high-risk vendors who process sensitive data, intellectual property or other sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2023

Satellite TV giant Dish Network has confirmed that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack, it also disclosed a data breach. The company initially did not comment on rumors of a ransomware attack, but now it has confirmed the incident and disclosed a data breach.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In traditional on-site backup systems security is mainly a physical concern – ensuring data is backed up in more than one location in case of hardware loss or failure and restricting access to the physical backup media to only trusted employees. In cloud backup, security concerns are different.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Even with high-level security measures, no one is safe from such threats. That is why most companies hire professional information security services to mitigate the risks arising from data breaches. Human errors often lead to data breaches, malware, and virus attacks that might compromise the company’s systems.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2024

The company has yet to disclose a data breach e never mentioned in its update that it was the victim of a ransomware attack. Therefore, companies that suffer a ransomware attack cannot predict when they will be operational again because they need to eradicate the threat from affected systems and restore any backups.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

Satellite TV giant Dish Network disclosed a data breach after the February ransomware attack and started notifying impacted individuals. The threat actors initially compromised the company’s Windows domain controllers and then encrypted the VMware ESXi servers and backups.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Curricula’s training material includes training content, phishing simulator, ransomware awareness playbook, compliance related education and reporting and a customized content creator to get back knowledge based feedback from the trained employees- all critical components in building up Information Security program. “An

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The group claims to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, backups, PII documents, and more. The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 7, 2021

Some University of California employees and students are being threatened by cybercriminals following a data breach within the University of California system. for secure file transfers and the list of known victims in this breach is growing. University uses data breach as learning opportunity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

years in jail for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia Social Blade discloses security breach Data of 5.7M Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities Former Twitter employee sentenced to 3.5

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially contain sensitive data. “The plugin uses custom “nonces” and timestamps to securely identify backups. This info could allow attackers to receive the backup via mail by manipulating the request. score of 8.5)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover. The leak poses a variety of risks, expanding from identity theft to takeover and cashing-out accounts of traders.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

The Russian government fears the consequence of data breaches suffered by its organizations or possible interference by third-party nation state actors that could exploit the ongoing attacks to carry out covet cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The first step consists of recommending organizations to follow best practices to neutralize ransomware attack such as set up offline, off-site, encrypted backups. ” The FTC also shared guidance for businesses that experienced a data breach. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Swiss town Rolle disclosed the data breach after a ransomware attack, personal details of all its 6,200 inhabitants were stolen by threat actors. “Gigabytes of data stolen from Rolle’s vaudois community and posted on darknet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

During its continuous darkweb and deepweb monitoring, the Cyble Research Team came across the post of Nefilim ransomware operators in which the crew claimed to have breached The Dussmann Group and have exfiltrated sensitive data. The first archive of files allegedly stolen by the company is around 15.7

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Pundari also added that the government didn’t pay a ransom to the threat actors and the system was recovered from backups. “The Department is conscious of the security and integrity of its data. . The post Papua New Guinea ‘s finance ministry was hit by a ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

. “Currently, the ransomware operators claims to have published 5% of company’s total data leak.” “Cyble has been reporting these data breaches to aware individuals of the risks associated with using online services.” ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

An exposed URL for a Google storage bucket is worrying as it is a link to the system’s storage, which can store practically anything from text files to databases, backups, images, videos, or other sensitive information. The case is a stark example of the risks of using third-party apps.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Scanners can also look for outdated code in your CMS and automatically patch the outdated code to close any security vulnerabilities that could lead to a data breach. Perform updates and backups. Cybercriminals often exploit known security weaknesses found in outdated CMS code such as CMS core files, plugins, and themes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! billion rubles.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

The company’s backup servers were not affected, and it is actively working with an Incident Response firm to restore its systems as soon as possible.” JBS said that it is not aware of any data breach caused by the cyber attack, it added that transactions with customers and suppliers will be delayed. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

Early August, the communications company Twilio discloses a data breach , threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. To prevent the addition of unauthorized devices, we recommend that users add a backup device and disable “Allow Multi-device” in the Authy application.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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