Tag: data-breach
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Wave of ShinyHunters Extortion Drives Surge in Data Leaks
‘Have I Been Pwned’ Founder Troy Hunt Reviews Impact on People and Organizations. The volume of data breaches that result in stolen personal data being leaked online has been surging, courtesy of the ShinyHunters, and while it affects individuals, the organizations being extorted are bearing the brunt of such attacks, said Troy Hunt, founder and…
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OpenAI Warns Mac Users to Update Apps After Supply-Chain Attack
OpenAI says Mac users must update ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas apps by June 12 after an npm supply-chain attack exposed signing certificates. The post OpenAI Warns Mac Users to Update Apps After Supply-Chain Attack appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-mac-app-update-supply-chain-attack/
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Cisco warns of an actively exploited SD-WAN flaw with max severity
Tags: access, advisory, cisco, cloud, control, cve, cvss, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, malicious, mitigation, network, service, software, update, vulnerabilityroot user account,” Cisco said. “Using this account, the attacker could access NETCONF, which would then allow the attacker to manipulate network configuration for the SD-WAN fabric.”The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, received a max-severity rating of CVSS 10.0. The company said that the issue is configuration-independent, meaning vulnerable systems remain exposed regardless of deployment-specific settings.Cisco…
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A spyware investigator exposed Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts
A group of likely Russian government hackers tried to hack a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks. He was then able to turn the tables on the hackers and reveal details of their espionage campaign. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/a-spyware-investigator-exposed-russian-government-hackers-trying-to-hijack-signal-accounts/
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PraisonAI vulnerability gets scanned within 4 hours of disclosure
Tags: access, api, authentication, data-breach, detection, mitigation, monitoring, network, vulnerabilityMitigations and recommendations: Sysdig urged organizations to immediately upgrade to PraisonAI version 4.6.34 or later, which removes the vulnerable legacy API behavior and introduces stronger authentication protections.The researchers also recommended discontinuing use of the legacy “api_server.py” entrypoint entirely, noting that exposed instances running older configurations remain vulnerable to unauthenticated access attempts.To support detection efforts, defenders…
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PoC Released for 18-Year-Old NGINX Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution
A critical vulnerability in NGINX’s source code, hidden since 2008, has finally been exposed, and a working exploit is already in the wild. Security researchers at depthfirst have publicly released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit demonstrating unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) against NGINX, the world’s most popular web server, powering nearly one-third of all websites globally.…
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New Exim BDAT GnuTLS Vulnerability Enables Code Execution Attacks
A critical, stealthy vulnerability is lurking deep within Exim, the software powering a massive share of the world’s email infrastructure. Sitting exposed on the internet’s front lines, these message transfer agents are highly lucrative targets for ruthless threat actors. This newly unmasked memory corruption flaw arms attackers with the terrifying ability to remotely execute malicious…
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Gentlemen RaaS Exploits Fortinet and Cisco Edge Devices for Initial Access
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is turning exposed Fortinet and Cisco edge devices into a fast lane into enterprise networks and doing it at scale. What began as a rising RaaS brand in mid”‘2025 has, by early 2026, evolved into one of the most active programs on the underground, with hundreds of victims and a…
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Hackers accessed BWH Hotels reservation system for months
BWH Hotels says hackers accessed guest reservation data, including names and contacts, for over six months across multiple hotel brands. BWH Hotels disclosed a data breach, with threat actors having had access to guest reservation data for more than six months. The incident exposed names and contact details of an undisclosed number of guests. BWH…
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UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-fines-water-supplier-13m-for-exposing-data-of-664k-customers/
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US bank discloses security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app
Community Bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/us-bank-discloses-security-lapse-after-sharing-customer-data-with-ai-app/
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Over 1 Million Baby Monitors and Security Cameras Exposed Through Meari Flaws
More than 1 million baby monitors and security cameras were reportedly exposed through vulnerabilities tied to Meari Technology. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/over-1-million-baby-monitors-and-security-cameras-exposed-through-meari-flaws/
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Over 1 Million Baby Monitors, Security Cameras Exposed Through Meari Flaws
Meari IoT flaws reportedly exposed baby monitor images, camera activity, and device data across more than 1 million connected devices. The post Over 1 Million Baby Monitors, Security Cameras Exposed Through Meari Flaws appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-meari-iot-baby-monitor-camera-vulnerabilities/
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Mistral AI SDK, TanStack Router hit in npm software supply chain attack
Tags: ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, github, kubernetes, malicious, malware, network, open-source, password, router, service, software, supply-chain, switch, vulnerabilitypull_request_target. This allows third-party workflows to run automatically, a way of avoiding maintainer approval fatigue, but means that the maintainer’s short-lived OIDC tokens become vulnerable to scraping.Armed with these tokens, the attacker were able to compromise the packages by injecting the malicious Mini Shai-Hulud malware, which propagated to other projects.The purpose is to steal developer…
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Å koda warns of customer data breach after online shop hack
Å koda Auto, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked its online shop and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/skoda-warns-of-customer-data-breach-after-online-shop-hack/
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Cushman and Wakefield Confirms Data Breach Impacting Over 310,000 Accounts
Global real estate powerhouse Cushman & Wakefield is the latest casualty in an escalating war of corporate extortion. Following a tense >>pay or leak<< standoff, the notorious ShinyHunters threat syndicate has carried out its threat, dumping hundreds of thousands of corporate records online. This massive exposure highlights the growing danger of identity-based attacks targeting massive…
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WannaCry, the ransomware attack that changed the history of cybersecurity
WannaCry showed how unpatched flaws and leaked cyber tools can cripple global systems, reshaping cybersecurity defenses worldwide. In memory of the day the digital world was shaken, but learned to fight back. The WannaCry ransomware attack represents one of the most significant events in recent cybersecurity history, not only for its global scale but also…
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Instructure reaches ‘agreement’ with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an “agreement” with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instructure-reaches-agreement-with-shinyhunters-to-stop-data-leak/
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South Staffordshire Water Fined £1m After Data Breach
The ICO has fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1m for a series of data protection failings First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/south-staffordshire-water-fined-1m/
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Hackers Hid Inside Major UK Water Utility for Nearly 2 Years
ICO Warns Key Security Gaps Led to Exposed Data of Over 630,000 People. A British regulator said a major water sector organization failed to use establish cybersecurity safeguards to secure sensitive data, allowing hackers to use a phishing campaign to gain persistence, steal records and expose more than 630,000 sensitive records. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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ICO fines Cl0p victim South Staffs Water over data breach
The ICO has levied a reduced fine on South Staffordshire Water following cyber improvements in the wake of a Cl0p ransomware attack First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642957/ICO-fines-Cl0p-victim-South-Staffs-Water-over-data-breach
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1,800+ MCP servers exposed without authentication: How zero trust can secure the AI agent revolution
Tags: ai, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, control, credentials, data, data-breach, defense, exploit, framework, governance, identity, infrastructure, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, network, risk, service, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustThe epistemological chasm: What renders MCP vulnerabilities particularly vexatious is the fundamental asymmetry they exploit between machine cognition and human oversight.Tool poisoning attacks insert malevolent instructions into tool metadata that LLMs process with complete fidelity but that remain utterly invisible to human operators. The machine perceives everything; its ostensible supervisors perceive nothing. We have unwittingly…
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Healthcare Data Breach: Cybercriminals Attacked Health Insurance Agency in Ecuador
First seen on resecurity.com Jump to article: www.resecurity.com/blog/article/healthcare-data-breach-cybercriminals-attacked-health-insurance-agency-in-ecuador
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11th May Threat Intelligence Report
Instructure, the US education technology company behind the Canvas learning platform, has confirmed a major data breach affecting its cloud-hosted environment. Exposed data reportedly includes student and staff records and private messages, while […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/11th-may-threat-intelligence-report/
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Sandboxie Escape Flaw Could Let Attackers Gain SYSTEM-Level Privileges
Security researchers have exposed critical sandbox escape vulnerabilities in Sandboxie and Sandboxie-Plus that allow attackers to gain full SYSTEM-level privileges. We strongly urge users to update to version 1.17.5, which was recently patched, to mitigate these severe execution threats. A series of catastrophic security vulnerabilities has been exposed in Sandboxie and Sandboxie-Plus, allowing threat actors…