Tag: breach
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Louvre Jewel Heist
I assume I don’t have to explain last week’s Louvre jewel heist. I love a good caper, and have (like many others) eagerly followed the details. An electric ladder to a second-floor window, an angle grinder to get into the room and the display cases, security guards there more to protect patrons than valuables”, seven…
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Conduent says data breach originally began with 2024 intrusion
The cyberattack, which impacted several state agencies, has also impacted multiple insurance providers. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/conduent-data-breach-began-2024-intrusion/803930/
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More Collins Aerospace Hacking Fallout
Everest Extortion Group Lists Dublin Airport. A Russian data extortion group threatened Sunday to release passenger data putatively stolen from the Dublin Airport days after its operator said it investigated a breach stemming from a September cybersecurity incident that affected airports across Europe. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/more-collins-aerospace-hacking-fallout-a-29848
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Iranian Intel-Linked Cybersecurity School Hit by Data Breach
Ravin Academy Records Reveal Identities of More Than 1,000 Participants. A public database of internal records from Iran’s Ravin Academy – a cyber school linked to the Ministry of Intelligence – has been published online, exposing potentially sensitive data on over 1,000 trainees, including individuals reportedly tied to Western institutions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Google disputes false claims of massive Gmail data breach
Google was once again forced to announce that it had not suffered a data breach after numerous news outlets published sensational stories about a fake breach that purportedly exposed 183 million accounts. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-disputes-false-claims-of-massive-gmail-data-breach/
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Sweden’s power grid operator confirms data breach claimed by ransomware gang
The utility responsible for operating Sweden’s power grid is investigating a data breach after a ransomware group threatened to leak hundreds of gigabytes of purportedly stolen internal data. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/sweden-power-grid-operator-data
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Iran’s school for cyberspies could’ve used a few more lessons in preventing breaches
Ravin Academy confirms the intrusion on Telegram, says student data was stolen First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/breach_iran_ravin_academy/
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Italian-made spyware spotted in breaches of Russian, Belarusian systems
The Dante spyware from Memento Labs, the successor to the notorious Italian company Hacking Team, was part of espionage operations against targets in Russia and Belarus, researchers at Kaspersky said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/memento-labs-formerly-hacking-team-dante-spyware-russia-kaspersky
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Breach at Iran’s cyberspy factory results in leak of student data
Ravin Academy confirms the intrusion on Telegram, says investigation continues First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/breach_iran_ravin_academy/
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: WSUS Exploited, LockBit 5.0 Returns, Telegram Backdoor, F5 Breach Widens
Security, trust, and stability, once the pillars of our digital world, are now the tools attackers turn against us. From stolen accounts to fake job offers, cybercriminals keep finding new ways to exploit both system flaws and human behavior.Each new breach proves a harsh truth: in cybersecurity, feeling safe can be far more dangerous than…
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Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won’t need security teams
Jen Easterly says most breaches stem from bad software, and smarter tech could finally clean it up First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/jen_easterly_ai_cybersecurity/
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Data sovereignty proof: How to verify controls like ‘Project Texas’
“Verification regimes work best when they serve everyone’s interests. The reporting company wants a process that does not impose too many burdens or interrupt workflow while allowing it to demonstrate compliance. Oversight bodies want hard data that is difficult to fake and indicates adherence to the regime. Finally, these systems need to be simple enough…
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Data sovereignty proof: How to verify controls like ‘Project Texas’
“Verification regimes work best when they serve everyone’s interests. The reporting company wants a process that does not impose too many burdens or interrupt workflow while allowing it to demonstrate compliance. Oversight bodies want hard data that is difficult to fake and indicates adherence to the regime. Finally, these systems need to be simple enough…
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The 10 biggest issues CISOs and cyber teams face today
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ceo, ciso, computing, crime, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, email, encryption, exploit, finance, fraud, governance, group, hacker, international, mitigation, organized, phishing, ransom, risk, scam, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability2. Escalating, and accelerating, AI-enabled attacks: A 2025 survey from Boston Consulting Group found that 80% of CISOs worldwide cited AI-powered cyberattacks as their top concern, a 19-point increase from the previous year. A 2025 survey from Darktrace, a security technology firm, found that 78% of CISOs reported a significant impact from AI-driven threats, up…
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Everest Ransomware Says It Stole 1.5M Dublin Airport Passenger Records
Everest ransomware group claims to have stolen 1.5 million passenger records from Dublin Airport and personal data of 18,000 Air Arabia employees in latest breaches. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/everest-ransomware-dublin-airport-passenger-data/
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MPs urge government to stop Britain’s phone theft wave through tech
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/25/uk_committee_phone_theft/
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OWASP Mobile Top 10 for Android How AutoSecT Detects Each Risk?
How trending are mobile apps? Statistics say that mobile apps are now a part of 70% of the digital interactions across the globe. The number of smartphone users now stands at over 6.8 billion. Based on the most recent available data from 2023, 40% of data breaches were linked to mobile app vulnerabilities, and, given……
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Top 10 Best Breach And Attack Simulation (BAS) Vendors in 2025
In the rapidly escalating cyber threat landscape of 2025, where attackers are more sophisticated and persistent than ever, a reactive security posture is no longer sufficient. Organizations worldwide are grappling with an expanding attack surface, the proliferation of advanced persistent threats (APTs), and the constant emergence of new zero-day vulnerabilities. Traditional security assessments, such as…
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Yale New Haven Health Will Pay $18M to Settle Hack Lawsuit
March Breach Affected Nearly 5.6 Million; NextGen Proposed Settlement Also Reached. Connecticut’s largest healthcare network – Yale New Haven Health System – has agreed to pay $18 million to settle class action litigation filed in the aftermath of a March hack affecting nearly 5.6 million people. The incident ranks as the biggest health data breach…
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Infostealers Run Wild
Malware Captures Billions of Credentials. The threat posed by information-stealing malware continues to rise, as it mass harvests ever-greater quantities of user credentials and offers them for sale across the cybercrime underground. Researchers have recently tracked 1.8 billion stolen credentials being sold across illicit marketplaces. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/infostealers-run-wild-a-29823
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Everest Ransomware Claims ATT Careers Breach with 576K Records
Everest ransomware group claims a breach of ATT Careers, alleging theft of 576,000 applicant and employee records locked behind a password-protected listing. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/everest-ransomware-att-careers-breach/
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Top Advice for Detecting and Preventing AI Attacks, and for Securing AI Systems
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, chatgpt, china, ciso, cloud, computing, container, control, credentials, crime, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, email, exploit, extortion, finance, flaw, framework, fraud, google, governance, government, group, guide, hacker, hacking, healthcare, iam, identity, incident response, intelligence, LLM, malicious, malware, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, organized, phishing, ransom, risk, risk-management, russia, sans, scam, service, skills, soc, strategy, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustAs organizations eagerly adopt AI, cybersecurity teams are racing to protect these new systems. In this special edition of the Cybersecurity Snapshot, we round up some of the best recent guidance on how to fend off AI attacks, and on how to safeguard your AI systems. Key takeaways Developers are getting new playbooks from groups…
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Fake LastPass death claims used to breach password vaults
LastPass is warning customers of a phishing campaign sending emails with an access request to the password vault as part of a legacy inheritance process. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-death-claims-used-to-breach-password-vaults/
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China-linked hackers exploit patched ToolShell flaw to breach Middle East telecom
China-based threat actors exploited ToolShell SharePoint flaw CVE-2025-53770 soon after its July patch. China-linked threat actors exploited the ToolShell SharePoint flaw vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53770, to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was addressed by Microsoft in July 2025. >>China-based attackers used the ToolShell vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770) to compromise a telecoms company in…
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Ransomware recovery perils: 40% of paying victims still lose their data
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, business, ceo, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, extortion, finance, GDPR, group, incident response, insurance, leak, mfa, privacy, ransom, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, threat, updateAdditional recovery pressures: Modern ransomware attacks now routinely involve double or triple extortion whereby attackers threaten to leak stolen data or launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks even after payment.This fundamentally changes the calculus on what victims can expect in cases where they decide to make a ransomware payment, which more often than not…
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Ransomware recovery perils: 40% of paying victims still lose their data
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, business, ceo, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, extortion, finance, GDPR, group, incident response, insurance, leak, mfa, privacy, ransom, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, threat, updateAdditional recovery pressures: Modern ransomware attacks now routinely involve double or triple extortion whereby attackers threaten to leak stolen data or launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks even after payment.This fundamentally changes the calculus on what victims can expect in cases where they decide to make a ransomware payment, which more often than not…