Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Dropbox announced on November 1, 2022, a data breach that led to the exfiltration of 130 GitHub code repositories. The breach was discovered on October 14, 2022, after GitHub identified some suspicious activity the day before.

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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. Image: Akamai.com. The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 12, 2024

On July 12, 2024, AT&T disclosed a data security incident that occurred in 2022. The company confirmed that unauthorized individuals accessed customer data stored on a third-party cloud platform. Notifying affected customers: Transparency is crucial in the wake of a data breach.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 26, 2024

On the popular pirate e-book site Z-Library, or rather its phishing clone Z-lib, created in late 2022, there was a recent data breach affecting nearly 10 million users.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Major airline American Airlines has fallen victim to a data breach after a threat actor got access to the email accounts of several employees via a phishing attack. According to a published notice of a security incident , the data breach was discovered in July 2022. How it happened.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2024

Back in March, AT&T confirmed that 73 million people had been affected in a breach that people had been speculating about for some time. Protecting yourself after a data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Watch out for fake vendors.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The automaker reveals in a data breach warning that a subcontractor uploading Toyota source code to a GitHub repository unintentionally set to public access was the primary cause of the data loss. The automaker had to halt operations at all 14 of its plants in Japan in February 2022 due to a suspected cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

On November 30, 2022, password manager LastPass informed customers of a cybersecurity incident following unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service. While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

The airliner, that truly stands as a low-cost carrier, has suffered a data breach as per a report released to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT- In). The incident took place on August 25th, 2022, leaking details such as email addresses, gender, name, phone numbers, and contact addresses.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The US State of Maine says it has suffered a data breach impacting around 1.3 According to the census from July 2022, that’s more or less the the entire population of Maine. The type of stolen data varies from person to person, likely because the data breach affected multiple agencies in the State.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In October, mobile provider Optus disclosed that hackers abused a poorly secured API to steal data on 10 million customers in Australia.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2022

5 Data Breach Trends to Anticipate This Year. In its recent annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, credit reporting agency Experian made five predictions for cybercrime and data breach trends to expect this year. Here are five data breach and cybercrime trends to anticipate this year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Revolut that offers payment processing technology was targeted by a phishing attack recently, leading to data breach of thousands of customers from Lithuania and Europe. Confirmed sources suggest the data breach occurred from a phishing attack that could have taken place in August this year.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Phishing attacks continue to be one of the most significant threats facing organizations today. As businesses increasingly rely on digital communication channels, cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in email, SMS, and voice communications to launch sophisticated phishing attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Information is out that the security incident occurred because of a mis-configured database exposing student info between December 2022–January 2023. Details are in that the data leak of students pursuing Economics PH.D Details are in that the data leak of students pursuing Economics PH.D

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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). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Samsung was a victim of the Lapsus$ cybergang in early 2022, which boasted of stealing 190 Gb of data from the tech giant.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2024

Dell, one of the world's largest technology companies, has just disclosed a major data breach that may have compromised the personal information of tens of millions of current and former customers. The breach went undetected for several months before finally being discovered in early 2023.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Threat actors are continually looking for better ways to target organizations, here are the top five attack vectors to look out for in 2022. This article focuses on the top five attack vectors organizations should look out for and defend against in 2022. Stolen Credentials.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The security breach was discovered in December 2022 after customer reported that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains. “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.”

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Activision has confirmed that it suffered a data breach in December 2022 after one of its employees fell victim to an SMS phishing attack, giving hackers access to its internal systems. [.]

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Data breaches, phishing attacks, and cybercrime became daily occurrences—something that’s still prevalent today. The post Weekly Email Security News Recap #2 [September 2022] appeared first on EasyDMARC. The post Weekly Email Security News Recap #2 [September 2022] appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

. “Yesterday, August 8, 2022, Twilio shared that they’d been compromised by a targeted phishing attack. The company uses Okta as its identity provider and messages include a link to a phishing page that was designed to look identical to a legitimate Okta login page. .” ” continues the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Every year, we hear something or the other about WhatsApp data breach and following this course is this news that is currently trending on various social media platforms and community forums at the end of this year, i.e. November 2022. Remember, threat actors can use such details to impersonate and launch phishing attacks.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Twitter has provided an update on a data breach incident that occurred earlier this year, clarifying that there was no evidence that the data involved was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in its systems. Recently, a similar attempt to sell data from 200 million Twitter-associated accounts was reported in the media.

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Webroot

JULY 25, 2022

The RSA Conference 2022 – one of the world’s premier IT security conferences – was held June 6th-9th in San Francisco. But attendees and presenters alike made up for it with their eagerness to explore emerging IT security trends that have developed over the past year – a venue like RSA Conference 2022 delivered on tenfold.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2022

Though not COVID-19 related, one of America's largest healthcare providers, Kaiser Permanente, disclosed a data breach affecting the protected health information (PHI) of more than 69,000 individuals. But why do we keep seeing these data breaches from large organizations?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

And there are indications that fraudsters may already be exploiting the stolen data in phishing attacks. SIM-swapping groups will often call employees on their mobile devices, pretend to be someone from the company’s IT department, and then try to get the employee to visit a phishing website that mimics the company’s login page.

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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. billion in revenue for 2022. Black Basta has been active since April 2022, like other ransomware operations, it implements a double-extortion attack model.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 2, 2023

It was a big year for cybersecurity in 2022 with massive cyberattacks and data breaches, innovative phishing attacks, privacy concerns, and of course, zero-day vulnerabilities. [.].

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 17, 2023

Category Awareness, Guides Risk Level Data breaches are a significant concern here in the digital age. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. Remember when we talked about Facebook , Marriott , easyJet , and J.Crew ’s data breaches in past years? My data was breached.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 What is phishing? What is phishing? This is part of what makes phishing attacks so dangerous.

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