CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Atlassian issued an update that the software vulnerability was identified by its security engineers on August 2021 and a fix was issued in the same month. Staff of the University of Colorado said that the vulnerability could have exposed data related to over 30k students.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Joe Biden and his administration seems be on a forward thinking gear for quantum technology linked cyber attacks leading to data breaches. On December 21st,2022, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to prevent data breaches emerging from quantum computing. isn’t it? .

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. The average business faces more than 700 of these types of attacks every single year.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

A classic example of this type of intrusion is the Capital One data breach. Suspected Capital One hacker Paige Thompson was indicted for her alleged data breach and theft of more than 100 million people including 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 linked bank accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The security breach resulted from a cyber attack exploiting a vulnerability in the MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT).- reads the advisory published by the company.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 1, 2023

As a result of another attack on LastPass’s systems, the company disclosed a severe data breach in December 2022 that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident. Nissan already notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The ransomware attack that hit the systems of Nissan Oceania in December 2023 impacted roughly 100,000 individuals. 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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Succession Wealth, a financial wealth management service offering company, has released a press statement that a cyber attack targeted its servers and it can only reveal details after the investigation gets concluded. Prima Facie revealed that hackers accessed no client data in the attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Stanford University, one of the top ranked Universities of the United States and world, has become a victim to a cyber attack leading to data leak or unauthorized access of sensitive information. Details are in that the data leak of students pursuing Economics PH.D

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A sophisticated cyber attack launched on the visa website of French government has led to a data breach where sensitive info related to applicants such as nationalities, birth dates and passport numbers were exposed to hackers. France-based media channels report that the incident could be a state funded attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a letter sent to members, Christina Salcido, vice president of mission operations for GSOC, confirmed that attackers may have accessed to names, birth dates, home addresses, insurance policy numbers and health history for some members. Experts warn of possible social-engineering-based cyber attacks leveraging the exposed info.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Image Source: AI Generated Recent data breaches have exposed sensitive information from millions of customers across healthcare, financial services, and technology sectors. These data breaches highlight significant vulnerabilities in vendor relationships and supply chain security. million per incident in 2023.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Phishing often serves as the gateway to cyber attacks, opening the door to impactful follow-on activity like malware and ransomware deployment or access to internal networks, ultimately causing substantial financial losses. For organizations, this can result in account compromise, data loss, data breaches, and operational disruption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

JD Sports, Britain’s online retailer of branded sportswear, has reportedly become a victim of a cyber attack that leaked information of over 10 million customers. The post Data Breach at Britain JD Sports leaks 10 million customers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A cybercriminal superstoreThe dark web, which can be accessed using special browsers like Tor, is a treasure trove of information, data, and software for carrying out cyber attacks.Reddit for CybercrimeThe Internet connects people. These software packages have everything you need to launch and scale a phishing attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

terabytes of data and is threatening to leak it. The ransomware attack took place in January as per a regulatory filing with the Indian National Stock Exchange. The company, which is engaged in product engineering, provides services to automotive and aerospace original equipment manufacturers as well as industrial machinery companies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

As per the details available to our Cybersecurity Insiders in the Port of Halifax, located in Nova Scotia, the Ports at Montreal and Quebec, both based in province of Quebec, were digitally disrupted by a cyber-attack. Presently, preliminary analysis suggests that there is a data breach in their network.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it happened as a result of the same adversary launching a second attack on its systems.

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When data breaches escalate, cyber-attacks grow more sophisticated, nation states ramp up their digital warfare, and regulations tighten the noose, staying ahead isnt just an optionits your only line of defence. The AI Question AI is on everyones lips and theres no denying that its revolutionising the way we do business.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The popular trading app Robinhood has just been hit with a major data breach affecting millions of its users. The company says an unauthorized third party socially engineered a customer support employee while talking on the phone, obtaining access to some customer support systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It is a well-known fact that those spreading malware like ransomware strike the same victim twice, if/when the victim shows negligence in fixing up the vulnerability that previously led to a data breach. The post LastPass becomes a cyber attack victim for the second time from the first time appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Threat actors hacked the home computer of a DevOp engineer, they installed a keylogger as part of a sophisticated cyber attack. Then the attackers exploited a flaw in a third-party media software package to target the firm. ” reads the update published by the company. ” continues the update.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

The BBC and British Airways were both impacted by the data breach suffered by the payroll provider Zellis. As a result of the cyber attack on the payroll provider Zellis, the personal data of employees at the BBC and British Airways has been compromised and exposed. reads the advisory published by the company.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

The attack first came to light on a Twitter account @ und0xxed that rolled out details of the breach. Vice was able to communicate with the attackers, who said that T-Mobile engineers apparently had learned about the compromise and had closed their backdoor avenue to the servers but added that by that time it was too late.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 23, 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. Attackers have to carry out a long series of actions that involve social engineering, data breaches and sometimes even system testing.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Uber announced on Thursday evening that it was responding to a cybersecurity incident , which led to the ride-sharing giant taking internal communications and engineering systems offline. Sam Curry, a security engineer at Yuga Labs who corresponded with the individual, said "they pretty much have full access to Uber.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 20, 2020

How do most data breaches occur? Who are the threat actors behind these cyber attacks? And what are key attacker motivations? The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has the answers. The things that follow are based on that data set. What are the top 5 causes of data breaches?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

MongoDB on Saturday disclosed it is investigating a cyber attack against certain corporate systems. ” The US firm urges customers to be vigilant for social engineering and phishing attacks. MongoDB is a US company that developed the popular open-source NoSQL database management system.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Suddenly, the web host has suspended your site, and you’ve been blacklisted from major search engines because your site poses a risk to visitors. The security provider needs to get involved immediately because the longer the problem persists, the worse the damage becomes; and the financial impact of these cyber attacks worsen.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Shockingly, 96% of these attacks come through email. Ransomware Attacks: In 2023, a whopping 72.7% The cost of these attacks could hit $265 billion annually by 2031. of organizations faced ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A security expert monitoring the currency stealing campaigns digitally says that cyber crooks are stealing smaller amounts from victims, but targeting many of them to make their cash bells ringing. The post Cyber Attacks in UK leading to Silent Stealing appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to State of Cloud Security Report compiled by Snyk, over 80% of organizations have suffered cloud security in the past one year and an equal proportion of them have suffered a data breach, but aren’t aware of it due to lack of coordination between teams & policy frameworks, enforcement challenges and budget allotment on time.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

In 2023 alone, there were 725 hacking-related breaches reported in U.S. Healthcare cybersecurity threats and breaches remain the costliest of any industry with the average data breach in a hospital now costing about $10.93 million per incident?

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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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