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Data loss, Threats & Malware

Fujitsu Data Breach Impacts Personal, Customer Information

March 18, 2024

Via: Security Week

According to the company, it discovered that multiple work computers within its environment were infected with malware and disconnected them from the network. Furthermore, Fujitsu said in an incident notification written in Japanse, the investigation into the attack has revealed […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Millions of users may have had data leaked in new French government agency security breach

March 15, 2024

Via: TechRadar

A French government agency suffered a cyberattack which has apparently resulted in the country’s largest-ever data leak incident, affecting as many as 43 million victims. The agency is called France Travail, the country’s unemployment registry and assistance organization, which helps […]


Cyber-crime, Data loss, Malware, Threats & Malware

Nissan Oceania data breach impacted roughly 100,000 people

March 14, 2024

Via: Security Affairs

Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident. Nissan immediately notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

EquiLend Ransomware Attack Leads to Data Breach 

March 12, 2024

Via: Security Week

On January 24, the company announced that some of its systems were taken offline due to “a technical issue” and that services would be disrupted for several days. EquiLend, which confirmed the next day that the disruption was caused by […]


Cyber-crime, Data loss, Malware, Threats & Malware

LockBit 3.0’s Bungled Comeback Highlights the Undying Risk of Torrent-Based (P2P) Data Leakage

March 6, 2024

Via: Security Affairs

While embattled ransomware gang LockBit 3.0 fights for its survival following Operation Cronos, a coordinated takedown of the syndicate’s web infrastructure by global authorities, the availability of victim data leaked by the gang persists via peer-to-peer (P2P) torrent networks. The […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing’s cyber-attackers for hire

February 22, 2024

Via: The Register

A cache of stolen documents posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing. The trove appeared on GitHub last week and contains hundreds of documents documenting I-Soon’s activities. Analysis of […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

LockBit leaks expose nearly 200 affiliates and bespoke data-stealing malware

February 21, 2024

Via: The Register

The latest revelation from law enforcement authorities in relation to this week’s LockBit leaks is that the ransomware group had registered nearly 200 “affiliates” over the past two years. Affiliates are those people who buy into the gang’s ransomware-as-a-service model, […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers’ camera feeds

February 20, 2024

Via: The Register

Smart home security camera slinger Wyze is telling customers that a cybersecurity “incident” allowed thousands of users to see other people’s camera feeds. Thanks to a helpful Reg reader who sent a customer email over to us, we know that […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Infosys subsidiary named as source of Bank of America data leak

February 13, 2024

Via: The Register

Indian tech services giant Infosys has been named as the source of a data leak suffered by the Bank of America. Infosys disclosed the breach in a November 3, 2023, filing [PDF] that revealed its US subsidiary Infosys McCamish Systems LLC (IMS) […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Mon Dieu! Nearly half the French population have data nabbed in massive breach

February 12, 2024

Via: The Register

Nearly half the citizens of France have had their data exposed in a massive security breach at two third-party healthcare payment servicers, the French data privacy watchdog disclosed last week. Payments outfits Viamedis and Almerys both experienced breaches of their […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Europe’s largest caravan club admits wide array of personal data potentially accessed

February 12, 2024

Via: The Register

The Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) and the experts it drafted to help clean up the mess caused by a January cyberattack still can’t figure out whether members’ data was stolen. According to an update shared with members late last […]


Data loss, Network security, Threats & Malware

Jet engine dealer to major airlines discloses ‘unauthorized activity’

February 12, 2024

Via: The Register

Willis Lease Finance Corporation has admitted to US regulators that it fell prey to a “cybersecurity incident” after data purportedly stolen from the biz was posted to the Black Basta ransomware group’s leak blog. The form 8-K filed with the […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Verizon says 63K employees’ info fell into the wrong hands – an insider this time

February 6, 2024

Via: The Register

Verizon is notifying more than 63,000 people, mostly current employees, that an insider, accidentally or otherwise, had inappropriate access to their personal data. The privacy blunder happened in September, and the American telco giant attributed it to “inadvertent disclosure” and […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Former CIA Cyber Engineer Sentenced to 40 Years for Massive Leak

February 5, 2024

Via: SecurityWeek

A United States federal judge has sentenced Joshua Adam Schulte, a former CIA employee, to 40 years in prison for one of the largest disclosures of classified information in U.S. history. Schulte worked as a software developer for the CIA’s […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Blackbaud settles with FTC after that IT breach exposed millions of people’s info

February 2, 2024

Via: The Register

Blackbaud, which had data on millions of people stolen from it by one or more crooks, has promised to shore up its IT defenses in a proposed deal with the FTC. In announcing the draft settlement, the US watchdog’s boss […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC’s security breach reporting rules

February 1, 2024

Via: The Register

The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule. In a policy statement [PDF] published yesterday by Biden’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Data leak at fintech giant Direct Trading Technologies

January 31, 2024

Via: Security Affairs

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. On October 27th, the Cybernews research team discovered a misconfigured web server […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Hundreds of network operators’ credentials found circulating in Dark Web

January 30, 2024

Via: Security Affairs

Resecurity conducted a thorough scan of the Dark Web and identified over 1,572 compromised customers of RIPE, Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), and the Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Center (LACNIC), resulting from […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Russian hackers breached Microsoft, HPE corporate maliboxes

January 25, 2024

Via: Help Net Security

Cozy Bear (aka Midnight Blizzard, aka APT29) has been busy hacking and spying on big tech companies: both Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have recently disclosed successful attack campaigns by the Russia-affiliated APT group. The Microsoft breach Last Friday, […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

What Microsoft’s latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight

January 24, 2024

Via: The Register

For most organizations – especially security vendors – disclosing a corporate email breach, in which executives’ internal messages and attachments were stolen, would noticeably ding their stock prices. But Microsoft apparently doesn’t operate by the laws of Wall Street. Late […]