Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2023

The NBA (National Basketball Association) disclosed a data breach after a third-party firm providing a newsletter service was breached. The NBA (National Basketball Association) is notifying followers of a data breach after a third-party company providing a newsletter service was breached.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. In 2020, the City disclosed a significant email breach , that resulted from a successful phishing attack on an employee.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Next, we discuss the emerging threat of “quishing,” a combination of voice calls and phishing that preys on unsuspecting victims. The post Okta Hacked Again, Quishing Is The New Phishing, Google Play Protect Real-Time Scanning appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

After weeks of denial, AT&T has finally acknowledged a massive data breach impacting 73 million current and former customer accounts. The telecom giant had initially claimed that a large trove of personal data leaked on the Dark Web did not originate from their systems.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2021

Breach : An incident that results in the confirmed disclosure—not just potential exposure—of data to an unauthorized party. This year they analyzed 79,635 incidents, 29,207 met their quality standards, and 5,258 were confirmed data breaches. Ransomware doubled from 5% of breaches to 10% in 2020.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 13, 2020

The SANS Institute, a company that provides cybersecurity training and certification, announced that a data breach compromised the personally identifiable data of roughly 28,000 records. The breach has been traced back to a phishing attack that targeted an employee of the company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Subway UK confirmed the hack of a marketing system that was used to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Hackers have compromised a marketing system in Subway UK and used it to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Subway UK).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

American Airlines disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to an undisclosed number of employee email accounts. American Airlines recently suffered a data breach, threat actors compromised a limited number of employee email accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Details are in that the data leak of students pursuing Economics PH.D Hackers can use stolen data for launching social engineering attacks such as phishing. The post Data Breach occurs at Stanford University appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2023

The UK Electoral Commission suffered a data breach that exposed voters’ personal information between 2014 and 2022. The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of voters in the United Kingdom between 2014 and 2022. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s a big one : As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile’s servers and is selling a portion of it on an underground forum for 6 bitcoin, about $280,000.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Preliminary analysis conducted by the IT team says that the sophisticated attack could have been caused through a phishing attack launched on the HackerOne account of one of the senior IT employees of the company. And the data breach could have taken place after the credential steal.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 17, 2019

But occasionally I feel obligated to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it’s crystal clear they wouldn’t know what to do with a data breach if it bit them in the nose, let alone festered unmolested in some dark corner of their operations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 GoDaddy discloses a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. The exposure of email addresses presents risk of phishing attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Adaptive phishing campaigns are emerging as an increasingly sophisticated threat in the cybersecurity landscape. The phenomenon This phenomenon represents an evolution of traditional phishing tactics, as attackers seek to overcome defenses using more personalized and targeted approaches.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Which are the most common causes of a Data Breach and how to prevent It? Data breaches are highly damaging and equally embarrassing for businesses and consumers. If you look at Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, you can find some of the most common causes of data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

The recent Mailchimp data breach has impacted multiple organizations, some of them are already notifying their customers. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp recently disclosed a news data breach , the incident exposed the data of 133 customers. Beware of ALL emails for Solana projects.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Sequoia Capital, one of the most prominent venture capital firms that focus on the technology industry, discloses a data breach. The intrusion is the result of a successful phishing attack against one of its employees. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Sequoia Capital). ” reported the security firm Axios. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

. “According to information we have received, their apparent goal is to infect websites and servers with malware for phishing campaigns, malware distribution and other malicious activities.” million customers , and March 2020, which exposed data of 28,000 customers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. “The company said no customer data was breached in the U.S., and that the employee data exposed wasn’t sensitive or personal. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2021

IT and consulting giant Accenture confirmed a data breach after the ransomware attack conducted by LockBit operators in August 2021. Global IT consultancy giant Accenture discloses a data breach after the LockBit ransomware attack that hit the company in August 2021. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach after threat actors have stolen employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack. Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Graham Cluley

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A 28-year-old maj has pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally hacked the network of his former company, telecoms firm Motorola, after he successfully tricked current staff into handing over their login credentials. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. 45% of breaches involved Hacking. 58% had personal data compromised.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 19, 2020

Increases in hacking, phishing, and cloud-based attacks have been even more prevalent with the influx of remote work, Verizon found.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2023

Swiss electrification and automation technology giant ABB confirmed it has suffered a data breach after a ransomware attack. In November 2022, Sentinel Labs researchers reported having found evidence that links the Black Basta ransomware gang to the financially motivated hacking group FIN7. billion in revenue for 2022.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Two Samsung customers, who are being represented by Clarkson Law Firm, have launched a class action lawsuit against the electronics maker for the two data breaches it had in 2022. A hack that targeted Samsung in July 2022 led to the compromise of US consumers’ personal information.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Cloud communications company Twilio disclosed a new data breach stemming from a June 2022 security incident where the same attackers behind the August hack accessed some customers' information. [.].

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

The online education portal EduCBA discloses a data breach and is resetting customers’ passwords in response to the incident. Online education website EduCBA discloses a data breach, it has started notifying customers that in response to the incident it is resetting their passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. Could be phished credentials. It’s too early to assess compliance to data loss regulations. Could be weak application security practices.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 27, 2022

The LAPSUS$ hacking group has claimed to have hacked both Microsoft and Okta, details about a novel phishing technique called a browser-in-the-browser (BitB) attack, and how a popular software package that has 1.1

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

carmaker with phishing attacks Law enforcement operation dismantled phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost Previously unknown Kapeka backdoor linked to Russian Sandworm APT Cisco warns of a command injection escalation flaw in its IMC. Automotive Industry Chinese Organized Crime’s Latest U.S.

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

American Airlines says its Cyber Security Response Team found out about a recently disclosed data breach from the targets of a phishing campaign that was using an employee's hacked Microsoft 365 account. [.].

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released guidance on how to prevent data breaches resulting from ransomware attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). The post US CISA releases guidance on how to prevent ransomware data breaches appeared first on Security Affairs.

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