Tag: breach
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AI-powered phishing scams now use fake captcha pages to evade detection
The attack playbook: The phishing campaigns follow a familiar playbook at the outset. Victims typically receive spam emails that carry urgent, action-oriented messages such as “Password Reset Required” or “USPS Change of Address Notification”.Clicking on the embedded link doesn’t take the user directly to a credential-stealing site but instead loads what appears to be a…
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Salesforce-Breach: ShinyHunters will 1,5 Milliarden Datensätze abgezogen haben
Wenn es denn stimmt, dürfte das noch böse ausgehen. Die Cyber-Gruppe ShinyHunters behauptet, über den Salesloft-Drift-Hack 1,5 Milliarden Datensätze von der CRM-Plattform Salesforce abgezogen zu haben. Das dürfte deren Kunden dann noch arge Kopfschmerzen bereiten, wurden doch in den letzten … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/09/22/salesforce-breach-shinyhunters-will-15-milliarden-datensaetze-abgezogen-haben/
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Agentic AI der neue Horror für Sicherheitsentscheider?
Tags: ai, antivirus, api, breach, ciso, compliance, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, detection, governance, law, mail, malware, monitoring, risk, service, supply-chain, tool, vulnerabilityKI ist mittlerweile in den meisten Unternehmen gesetzt. Im Trend liegen aktuell vor allem Systeme mit autonomen Fähigkeiten bei denen die potenziellen Sicherheitsrisiken besonders ausgeprägt sind.KI-Agenten werden im Unternehmensumfeld immer beliebter und zunehmend in Workflows und Prozesse integriert. Etwa in den Bereichen Softwareentwicklung, Kundenservice und -Support, Prozessautomatisierung oder Employee Experience. Für CISOs und ihre Teams…
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DOJ: Scattered Spider took $115 million in ransoms, breached a US court system
The Scattered Spider cybercriminal operation was able to extort at least $115 million in a three-year spree that also included the breach of a federal court network, U.S. authorities said in unsealing charges against one suspect. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/scattered-spider-unsealed-charges-115million-extortion-breached-courts-system
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Cybersecurity in smart cities under scrutiny
Tags: 5G, attack, breach, ciso, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, detection, governance, government, infrastructure, intelligence, international, iot, monitoring, network, service, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustEnrique DomÃnguez, Accenture Accenture. En la imagen, Enrique DomÃnguez.Rosa DÃaz Moles, director of public sector at S2GRUPO, also highlights smart cities’ complexity and their resulting cybersecurity issues.The digital transformation of public services involves “an accelerated convergence between IT and OT systems, as well as the massive incorporation of connected IoT devices,” she explains, which gives rise…
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Cybersecurity in smart cities under scrutiny
Tags: 5G, attack, breach, ciso, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, detection, governance, government, infrastructure, intelligence, international, iot, monitoring, network, service, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustEnrique DomÃnguez, Accenture Accenture. En la imagen, Enrique DomÃnguez.Rosa DÃaz Moles, director of public sector at S2GRUPO, also highlights smart cities’ complexity and their resulting cybersecurity issues.The digital transformation of public services involves “an accelerated convergence between IT and OT systems, as well as the massive incorporation of connected IoT devices,” she explains, which gives rise…
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UK Police Arrest Two Scattered Spider Hackers Over London Transport Breach
UK law enforcement agencies have arrested two individuals linked to the notorious Scattered Spider cybercriminal group. The arrests, announced on Tuesday, pertain to a sophisticated attack on London’s transport systems. Authorities say the suspects infiltrated critical infrastructure networks, demanding ransom payments and causing widespread disruption. Details of the Arrests and Charges On Sept. 16, officers…
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Cybersecurity in smart cities, under scrutiny
Tags: 5G, attack, breach, ciso, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, detection, governance, government, infrastructure, intelligence, international, iot, monitoring, network, service, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustEnrique DomÃnguez, Accenture Accenture. En la imagen, Enrique DomÃnguez.Rosa DÃaz Moles, director of public sector at S2GRUPO, also highlights smart cities’ complexity and their resulting cybersecurity issues.The digital transformation of public services involves “an accelerated convergence between IT and OT systems, as well as the massive incorporation of connected IoT devices,” she explains, which gives rise…
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Vastaamo psychotherapy hack: US citizen charged in latest twist of notorious data breach
28-year-old Daniel Lee Newhard, an American citizen living in Estonia, has been charged in relation to the notorious hack of Vastaamo, the biggest data breach in Finnish history. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/vastaamo-psychotherapy-hack-us-citizen-charged-in-latest-twist-of-notorious-data-breach
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Wiz, Kaseya Investor Details Data Breach That Hit 12,000-Plus People
Insight Partners, whose investments include Wiz and Kaseya, has revealed new details of the data breach discovered this year in a filing with Maine. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/wiz-kaseya-investor-shares-new-details-of-data-breach-that-hit-12-000-plus-people
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Breach Roundup: Microsoft, Cloudflare Dismantle RaccoonO365
Tags: ai, breach, china, data, data-breach, hacker, microsoft, phishing, privacy, service, spear-phishing, technologyAlso, Colt Services Outage Persists, Finland Charges Americans in Vastaamo Hack. This week, Microsoft hit RaccoonO365, Colt Technology Services, Finland charged a U.S. citizen in Vastaamo hack. RevengeHotels hackers used AI, Meta can’t overturn a privacy case verdict. Chinese hackers unleashed spear phishing emails. Prosper confirmed a data breach, as did Kering fashion houses. First…
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WatchGuard patches ‘critical’ VPN flaw in firewalls that could lead to compromise
Who is affected?: A list of the nearly three dozen firewall models affected by CVE-2025-9242 is available from WatchGuard’s website. The vulnerable versions of the Fireware OS are 2025.1, 12.x, 12.5.x (T15 & T35 models), 12.3.1 (FIPS-certified release), and 11.x (end of life). These are addressed (in the same order) by updating to versions 2025.1.1,…
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UK arrests 2 more alleged Scattered Spider hackers over London transit system breach
Authorities say one of the suspects also hacked several U.S. healthcare firms. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/uk-arrests-scattered-spider-london-transit-hack-us-healthcare/760508/
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Cybercriminals pwn 850k+ Americans’ healthcare data
Three US medical centers fess up to serious breaches First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/850k_americans_affected_by_medical/
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ShinyHunters Counts 1.5 Billion Stolen Salesforce Records
Group Reportedly Scanned Salesloft’s Source Code on GitHub, Recovered OAuth Tokens. The ShinyHunters extortionists behind data-grabbing August attacks on Salesloft Drift users claim to have stolen 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies after breaching Salesloft’s private Git repository and scanning it for secrets, which led to them recovering working OAuth tokens. First seen on…
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How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension
A deep-dive into Active Directory and how “Kerberoasting” breaks it wide open. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/how-weak-passwords-and-other-failings-led-to-catastrophic-breach-of-ascension/
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Cybercriminals pwn 850k+ Americans healthcare data
Three US medical centers fess up to serious breaches First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/850k_americans_affected_by_medical/
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SonicWall Urges Password Resets After Cloud Backup Breach Affecting Under 5% of Customers
SonicWall is urging customers to reset credentials after their firewall configuration backup files were exposed in a security breach impacting MySonicWall accounts.The company said it recently detected suspicious activity targeting the cloud backup service for firewalls, and that unknown threat actors accessed backup firewall preference files stored in the cloud for less than 5% of…
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New York Blood Center Alerts 194,000 People to Data Breach
A breach at the New York Blood Center resulted in theft of data for 194,000 people, including SSNs, IDs, bank and health information First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/new-york-blood-center-data-breach/
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PyPI invalidates tokens stolen in GhostAction supply chain attack
The Python Software Foundation team has invalidated all PyPI tokens stolen in the GhostAction supply chain attack in early September, confirming that the threat actors didn’t abuse them to publish malware. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pypi-invalidates-tokens-stolen-in-ghostaction-supply-chain-attack/
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BMW Reportedly Hit by Everest Ransomware, Internal Files Stolen
The Everest ransomware group has claimed a major breach at Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), alleging the theft of 600,000 lines of sensitive internal documents. The group has posted BMW on its leak site, complete with a countdown timer and instructions that threaten to make the stolen audit reports, financial records, and engineering files public…
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Brute force attacks hitting SonicWall firewall configuration backups
Tags: attack, authentication, backup, breach, cloud, computer, computing, credentials, data, defense, encryption, firewall, Hardware, login, mfa, password, phishing, software, technology, threatWhat are brute force attacks?: Brute force attacks use trial and error to crack passwords, login credentials, and encryption keys. They’ve been around since the beginning of the computer age, yet are still effective. Why? In part because people still use easily guessable passwords like ‘1234’, or their company’s name, or default passwords left on…
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Insight Partners Confirms Data Breach Exposing Users’ Personal Data
Insight Partners, a global venture capital and private equity firm, has officially confirmed a significant data breach that exposed personal information of individuals connected to the company. The breach notification reveals sophisticated attack methods and a months-long timeline that has raised serious concerns about data security practices at one of the world’s largest investment firms.…
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VC Firm Insight Partners Notifies Victims After Ransomware Breach
Insight Partners has released more details of a 2024 ransomware breach impacting thousands of individuals First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/vc-insight-partners-notifies/
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Malicious PyPI Packages Deliver SilentSync RAT
IntroductionZscaler ThreatLabz regularly monitors for threats in the popular Python Package Index (PyPI), which contains open source libraries that are frequently used by many Python developers. In July 2025, a malicious Python package named termncolor was identified by ThreatLabz. Just a few weeks later, on August 4, 2025, ThreatLabz uncovered two more malicious Python packages…