SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Chinese cyber espionage group Salt Typhoon has made headlines in the last year, breaching major U.S. telecommunications providers , including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies. internet service provider, a U.K.-affiliated The impacted companies include a U.S. The outlook: a persistent and growing threat Despite U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 4, 2025

With more than 80% of internet traffic now routed through APIsa number projected to rise significantly due to AI developmentstheir security is crucial. This breach led to unauthorized access to customers' personal information, including Social Security numbers, resulting in a $2,000,000 fine. million AT&T wireless customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Chinese cyber spies targeted phones used by Trump and Vance Irish Data Protection Commission fined LinkedIn €310M for GDPR infringement Change Healthcare data breach impacted over 100 million people OnePoint Patient Care data breach impacted 795916 individuals From Risk Assessment to Action: Improving Your DLP Response U.S.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Judische would repeat that claim in Star Chat on May 13 — the day before Santander publicly disclosed a data breach — and would periodically blurt out the names of other Snowflake victims before their data even went up for sale on the cybercrime forums.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

China-linked APT Salt Typhoon has breached more U.S. telecommunications providers via unpatched Cisco IOS XE network devices. telecommunications providers by exploiting unpatched Cisco IOS XE network devices. Insikt researchers reported that ongoing attacks have breached multiple telecom networks, including ISPs in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

telecommunication providers. The China-linked APT groupis still targeting telecommunications providers worldwide, and according to a report recently published by Recorded Futures Insikt Group, the threat actors has breached more U.S. telecommunications providers by exploiting unpatched Cisco IOS XE network devices.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2025

The Danish Social Security Agency published a new threat assessment for the cyber threat to the telecommunications sector that highlights the risks for the telecom companies in Europe. This is because the extent of cyber espionage against the telecommunications sector in Europe has likely increased.” telecommunication providers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2025

At the end of December 2024, a White House official confirmed that China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon has breached a ninth U.S. A White House official said Friday the US identified a ninth telecommunications company impacted by a wide-ranging Chinese espionage effort and that further steps are planned to curb cyberattacks from Beijing.”

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

only telecommunications and mobile internet service, has informed customers that personal data was exposed by a data breach at one of its primary network providers, with some customers warned that it allowed SIM swapping attacks. [.] Google Fi, Google's U.S.-only

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach, its websites SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com were hacked last month. In March hackers compromised two websites of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and now it disclosed a data breach. ” continues the data breach notice.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

Category Awareness, News, Case Study As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, telecommunication has become a highly vulnerable target for cybersecurity threats. In short, telecommunications (telecom) is a fundamental and critical component of our global infrastructure. Read more of the ACT

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. telecommunications companies to gain access to internal company tools. Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Bad news for the Australian telecommunications industry, the largest company in the country Telstra suffered a data breach. Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed a data breach through a third-party supplier. It seems that the security breach also impacted other companies.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Australian Telecommunication Firm is currently silent on the issue and assured that it will release a press statement after a preliminary inquiry into the attack gets completed. The post Optus Australia suffers serious data breach after Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A recent hack discovered by one of the world's largest telecommunications companies has the potential to impact millions of cell phone users worldwide. A five-year breach of one of Syniverse's main systems is a global privacy disaster. Syniverse data is a hacker's dream. Syniverse data breach result of 'laziness?'.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

Category Awareness, News, Case Study As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, telecommunication has become a highly vulnerable target for cybersecurity threats. In short, telecommunications (telecom) is a fundamental and critical component of our global infrastructure. Read more of the ACT

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Now, an Attorney General named Maura Healey from Massachusetts has announced a probe on the incident and ordered for a detailed report on how well the Cybersecurity measures were being implanted by T-Mobile for data protection of its valued customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The oil giant employs has over $200 billion in annual revenue, and the threat actors are offering the stolen data at an initial price of $5 million. Bleeping Computer reached the company who confirmed a data breach on third-party contractors, but pointed out that the incident had no impact on Aramco’s operations.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? In October, FICO teamed up with the U.S. ARE YOU EXPERIANSED?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

The report stems from a detailed analysis of attacks targeting StormWall’s clientele, which spans various sectors such as finance, e-commerce, telecommunications, entertainment, transportation, education, and logistics. Telecommunications continued to be a popular target, enduring 16% of attacks and a 47% YoY increase.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The attack did not impact radio and cable TV broadcasts, while SIC’s internet streaming transmission was interrupted. Early this month, the ransomware gang hit the websites under Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) causing the unavailability of COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens. Source TheRecord. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. Early this week, the company confirmed that the breach impacted nearly 2.1 million individuals. ” reads the announcement published by the AFP. .” said Gough.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

.” Javier Jara, undersecretary of the electronic government department of the telecommunications ministry, confirmed that groups linked to Julian Assange launched “volumetric attacks” that blocked access to the internet. At the time of publishing there is no news of data breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Now ESET researchers are blaming the Russia-linked APT group for the attacks that took place in March, the hackers also disclosed a data breach. The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password. continues the data breach notice.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Following its epic 2017 data breach, Equifax reconfigured its systems to effectively invalidate the freeze PINs it previously relied upon to unfreeze a file, effectively allowing anyone to bypass that PIN if they can glean a few personal details about you. For more information on the NCTUE, see this page.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

. “As part of our regular darkweb monitoring, our researchers came across the data leak of LG Electronics been published by the Maze ransomware operators. Just after the WorldNet Telecommunications, the LG electronics fall as a victim of the Maze ransomware operators.” ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As ransomware gangs do, it made the announcement on its dark web website, where it sells data that it's stolen from victims' computer networks. If Sony has been breached then its customers will be understandably concerned to safeguard their data. We've heard this a million times before, and it's always just a cash grab.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Exposing the Internet of Things (IoT) Universe. Insecure implementations may result in unauthorized access to threat actors and potential data breaches.” This instance can result in NFV data breaches, resource exhaustion, or DDoS attacks. NTIA and CISA: Memos from the Feds What is 5G? How is 5G Different?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. ” reads the Publish Service Announcement published by the IC3.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 23, 2021

T-Mobile has also insisted that they are taking this breach very seriously, and although it may take time, they are prioritizing this investigation and giving it a top priority. This is potentially the 6th data breach for the Telcom company, which leaves concerns over their safety and security protocols on cybersecurity matters. .

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2023

of total internet traffic in 2022, marking a significant 5.1% These findings shed light on the escalating prevalence of bots and the shifting dynamics of internet users. Internet Traffic in 2022 2. Gaming (58.7%) and telecommunications (47.7%) had the highest bad bot traffic on their websites and applications.

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