Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. The security breach occurred on April 1, 2024, the threat actors used a Provider employee’s credentials that illicitly obtained through a phishing attack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Atrium Health disclosed a data breach affecting 585,000 individuals to the HHS, potentially linked to the use of online tracking tools. Healthcare company Atrium Health disclosed a data breach that impacted 585,000 individuals. The company notified the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor offered for sale on BreachForums stolen data. The global networking equipment and technology company D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor earlier this month offered for sale on the BreachForums platform the stolen data.

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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 Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Airline Air Europa disclosed a data breach and warned customers to cancel their credit cards after threat actors accessed their card information. Source: Twitter Financial data exposed in the security incident includes credit card details (card numbers, expiration dates, and the CVV (Card Verification Value) code).

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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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2024

TracFone has to undergo annual assessments—including by independent third parties—of its information security program. Employees and certain third parties are to receive privacy and security awareness training. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. Take your time.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

The County of Los Angeles’ Department of Public Health (DPH) disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 200,000 individuals. The LA County’s Department of Public Health announced that the personal information of more than 200,000 was compromised after a data breach that occurred between February 19 and February 20, 2024.

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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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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. The post US CISA releases guidance on how to prevent ransomware data breaches appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads CISA’s guideline.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

T-Mobile data breach could be worse than initially thought, an update to the investigation reveals that over 54 million individuals were impacted. T-Mobile data breach could be worse than initially thought, according to an update to the investigation over 54 million customers had their data compromised.

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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. The system does not hold any bank or credit card details.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2024

The company warns that the stolen data can be used to carry out scams, phishing attacks, and identity theft against Australians.

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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

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2021

Samples analyzed by CyberNews contain a variety of mostly professional information from LinkedIn profiles, including: IDs Full names Email addresses Phone numbers Genders Links to LinkedIn profiles Links to other social media profiles Professional titles and other work-related data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Police report containing accident details, as well as involved parties phone numbers, driver’s license information, name-surname, and national identifier.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) was hit by a cyber attack, threat actors stole personal information from its email system. US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their email system. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2023

Therefore, computer admins are being warned to be aware of phishing emails, malicious downloads, and be wary of other social engineering attacks. According to sources, a hack has exposed data of over 780,000 children who were patients of Brightline. The data breach took place on January 30th, 2023, impacting about 783,600 people.

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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.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

Scams, Phishing, and Malware: It is common for unethical hackers and criminals on the Internet to use personal data to create trustworthy phishing emails. The more information they possess, the more believable these emails look. The less information you give hackers to work with, the less vulnerable you are to attack.

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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. ” reads the announcement published by Cloudflare.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. This year, Verizon analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 confirmed data breaches. So what did they find?

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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. The attacks began with a spam/phishing email containing malicious URL links. ABB has more than 105,000 employees and has $29.4 billion in revenue for 2022.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Learn how it prevents cyberattacks, phishing, and data breaches while keeping your personal information secure. The post Guarding Your Brand: Why Domain Protection is Essential for Every Business Owner appeared first on Security Boulevard. Protect your business with domain protection.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2021

The OpenWRT forum, the community behind the open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, disclosed a data breach. OpenWRT forum was compromised during the weekend and user data were stolen by intruders. The administrators of the forum disclosed the data breach with an announcement published on the forum.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

DarkBeam left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. DarkBeam has apparently been collecting information to alert its customers in case of a data breach. billion records. billion records.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims. The infographic below outlines the most common types of phishing attacks used against individuals or businesses. The eight most common forms of phishing-based cyberattacks.

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