Tag: breach
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Evolution of Ransomware: Multi-Extortion Ransomware Attacks
Multi-extortion ransomware relies on stolen data to pressure victims with public leaks. Penta Security explains how its D.AMO platform keeps exfiltrated files encrypted and useless to attackers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/evolution-of-ransomware-multi-extortion-ransomware-attacks/
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Ukraine warns Russian hackers are revisiting past breaches to prepare new attacks
Tags: access, attack, breach, credentials, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, russia, ukraine, vulnerabilityIn a new report, CERT-UA said attackers are revisiting previously breached infrastructure to check whether access is still available, whether exploited vulnerabilities have been patched and whether previously obtained credentials remain valid. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-warns-russian-hackers-revisiting-old-attacks
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Breach of Confidence: 3 April 2026
I once tried to assemble IKEA furniture this week without looking at the instructions. Got halfway through before realising I’d built something structurally sound but utterly useless. Feels like a decent metaphor for most security programmes. America Discovers It Doesn’t Make Routers Anymore The US just banned foreign-made routers because malicious actors kept using them……
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Why Third-Party Risk Is the Biggest Gap in Your Clients’ Security Posture
The next major breach hitting your clients probably won’t come from inside their walls. It’ll come through a vendor they trust, a SaaS tool their finance team signed up for, or a subcontractor nobody in IT knows about. That’s the new attack surface, and most organizations are underprepared for it.Cynomi’s new guide, Securing the Modern…
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The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: Ransomware, and Supply Chain Breaches Surge
In this week’s weekly roundup, The Cyber Express delivers a concise overview of the latest cybersecurity news, highlighting major cyberattacks, new ransomware risks, and supply chain vulnerabilities. Organizations across industries continue to face a surge in modern cyber threats, ranging from targeted breaches to large-scale exploitation campaigns that disrupt operations and expose sensitive data. First seen on…
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Trivy supply chain attack enabled European Commission cloud breach
CERT-EU confirmed that ShinyHunters are behind the recent breach of the cloud infrastructure underpinning websites of the European Commission, and that they stole and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/03/european-commission-cloud-breach/
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North Korea-Linked Hackers Hit Axios npm in Supply Chain Attack
Tags: attack, breach, credentials, cyber, hacker, korea, malicious, north-korea, software, supply-chain, threatA major software supply chain attack has been uncovered after threat actors compromised the widely used Axios npm package, impacting developers and organizations worldwide. The incident, detected on March 31, 2026, involved the use of stolen maintainer credentials to inject malicious code into the popular HTTP client library. Axios is one of the most widely…
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Adobe Data Breach Allegedly Exposes 13 Million Support Tickets
A threat actor known as >>Mr. Raccoon<< claims to have breached Adobe, stealing a massive amount of sensitive data. According to a report by International Cyber Digest, the stolen files include 13 million customer support tickets, 15,000 employee records, internal documents, and all of the company's HackerOne bug bounty submissions. The attacker did not hack…
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Breach Roundup: Feds Confirm ‘Major’ Hack of FBI System
Also, Lloyds Data Leak, Dutch Treasury Breach, Citrix Bug Exploit, Pay2Key Activity. This week, Lloyds data leak hits 450K, Dutch treasury breach, Citrix flaw exploited, Iran-linked ransomware ops, TrueConf zero-day, Russian fraud ring sentenced, Romania targeted, patch gaps persist, and U.S. hospital breach affects 257K. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/breach-roundup-feds-confirm-major-hack-fbi-system-a-31329
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Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-55182 to Breach 766 Next.js Hosts, Steal Credentials
A large-scale credential harvesting operation has been observed exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability as an initial infection vector to steal database credentials, SSH private keys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, shell command history, Stripe API keys, and GitHub tokens at scale.Cisco Talos has attributed the operation to a threat cluster it tracks as First seen on…
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Hasbro hit by cyberattack, investigates possible data breach
Hasbro suffers a cyberattack, disrupting some operations; the company is probing the scope and potential data compromise. Toy giant Hasbro reported a cyberattack on Wednesday that disrupted certain company operations. The firm is investigating the full extent of the incident, including whether any files or sensitive data were compromised, as it works to restore normal…
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Drift crypto platform confirms $280 million stolen in hack as researchers point finger at North Korea
The platform released a post-mortem on Wednesday night explaining that malicious actors gained access to Drift systems through a “novel attack” that involved the “rapid takeover” of the company’s security council administrative powers. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/drift-crypto-confirms-280-million-stolen-north-korea
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When Trusted Systems Become Attack Paths
A hospital in Chicago is still dealing with stolen patient data. A major U.S. medical manufacturer is restoring order processing, manufacturing, and shipments after a destructive attack. A Washington-based employee benefits administrator is notifying 2,697,540 people that their data may have been exposed. Put those stories together and the same fault lines keep showing up,……
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Hasbro Systems Nerfed by Data Breach; IT Recovery Underway
Transformers, Peppa Pig Toymaker Forecasts Delays, Says Product Shipping Continues. Toymaker Hasbro said its IT systems have been breached, leading to data being stolen and some operations being disrupted, and it warned that a full recovery may take weeks. The owner of such brands as Transformers, Peppa Pig and Monopoly said it’s still able to…
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Alleged Starbucks Incident Exposes Code and Firmware
Threat actors claim to have stolen 10GB of Starbucks code and firmware from a misconfigured S3 bucket. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cloud-security/alleged-starbucks-incident-exposes-code-and-firmware/
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Software supply chain hacks trigger wave of intrusions, data theft
After linking the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean hackers, Google researchers warned that >>hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets could potentially be … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/02/supply-chain-hacks-data-theft/
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Software supply chain hacks trigger wave of intrusions, data theft
After linking the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean hackers, Google researchers warned that >>hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets could potentially be … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/02/supply-chain-hacks-data-theft/
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New ‘Storm’ Infostealer Remotely Decrypts Stolen Credentials
This modern infostealer adopted server-side decryption of stolen credentials to bypass security controls First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/storm-infostealer-remotely/
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Yurei Ransomware Uses Common Tools, Adds Stranger Things References
Team Cymru details the Yurei ransomware campaign, using standard tools and a few Stranger Thingsnamed payloads to breach and encrypt systems. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/yurei-ransomware-tools-stranger-things-references/
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Iranian Hacker Group Handal Claims Breach of Israeli Defense Firm
Tags: breach, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, group, hacker, international, iran, military, threatThe international cybersecurity community was alerted to a major data breach involving Israeli military infrastructure. Handala, a recognized Iranian nation-state threat actor, claims to have successfully breached PSK Wind Technologies, a key Israeli defense contractor. The incident has resulted in the public release of highly classified military data, representing a significant compromise of sensitive operational…
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Axios npm Supply Chain Breach: Microsoft Shares Mitigation Steps
Tags: breach, cyber, infrastructure, malicious, microsoft, mitigation, north-korea, supply-chain, threatMicrosoft has detailed how organizations can detect and mitigate a recent supply chain compromise involving malicious Axios npm releases and infrastructure attributed to the North Korean threat actor Sapphire Sleet. On March 31, 2026, two Axios npm versions (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were published with a hidden malicious dependency that contacted attacker command”‘and”‘control (C2) infrastructure and…
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Cisco Faces Alleged Data Leak as ShinyHunters Claims Responsibility
Cisco is actively dealing with a major cybersecurity incident after threat actors breached its internal development networks. The notorious hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the attack, alleging they stole sensitive source code and data affecting Cisco, Salesforce, Aura, and various AWS storage buckets. The breach stems from a recent supply chain attack involving…
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Mazda Data Breach Exposing Employee and Partner Records Via System Vulnerability
Modern enterprises rely heavily on cloud platforms and interconnected systems to manage operations and customer data. While these technologies enable scale and efficiency, they also introduce new risks when configurations are not properly secured. New reporting from Cybersecurity News reveals a data exposure incident involving Mazda, where sensitive data was reportedly left accessible due to…
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Iranian Handala Hackers Breach FBI Director Kash Patel’s Gmail Account
The digital landscape has reached a point where no one”, not even the head of the FBI, is immune to a well-timed exploit. New reporting from Cyber Security News reveals that FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal Gmail account was breached by the Iran-linked “Handala” hacker group. The hackers didn’t just take the data; they made…
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9 ways CISOs can combat AI hallucinations
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, compliance, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, flaw, framework, GDPR, governance, identity, metric, penetration-testing, regulation, risk, soc, tool, trainingTreat AI outputs as drafts, not finished products: One of the biggest risks is over-trusting AI, according to security experts. Coté says her organization changed its policy so AI-generated content cannot go straight into compliance documentation without a human review.”The moment your team starts treating an AI-generated answer as a finished work product, you have…
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AI Startup Mercor Hit by Supply Chain Attack Linked to LiteLLM
Tags: ai, attack, breach, cyberattack, data, data-breach, malicious, open-source, risk, software, startup, supply-chainA recent Mercor cyberattack has brought renewed attention to the risks associated with open-source software dependencies, after the AI recruiting startup confirmed it was impacted by a broader supply chain compromise. The Mercor data breach, which is still under investigation, has been linked to a malicious incident involving the widely used LiteLLM project. First seen…
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AI Startup Mercor Hit by Supply Chain Attack Linked to LiteLLM
Tags: ai, attack, breach, cyberattack, data, data-breach, malicious, open-source, risk, software, startup, supply-chainA recent Mercor cyberattack has brought renewed attention to the risks associated with open-source software dependencies, after the AI recruiting startup confirmed it was impacted by a broader supply chain compromise. The Mercor data breach, which is still under investigation, has been linked to a malicious incident involving the widely used LiteLLM project. First seen…
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North Korean Hackers Breach Axios Package, Target Windows, macOS, and Linux Systems
A North Koreanexus threat actor has hijacked the popular Axios NPM package in a high”‘impact software supply chain attack that can silently backdoor Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. Between March 31, 2026, 00:21 and 03:20 UTC, attackers used a compromised maintainer account to push backdoored Axios releases 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 to NPM. The attackers changed…
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North Korean Hackers Breach Axios Package, Target Windows, macOS, and Linux Systems
A North Koreanexus threat actor has hijacked the popular Axios NPM package in a high”‘impact software supply chain attack that can silently backdoor Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. Between March 31, 2026, 00:21 and 03:20 UTC, attackers used a compromised maintainer account to push backdoored Axios releases 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 to NPM. The attackers changed…