Tag: data-breach
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‘Sensitive’ data stolen in Westminster City Council cyber attack
London borough confirms that data breach affecting three neighbouring councils in a shared IT services operation led to personal information being copied by a third party First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636738/Sensitive-data-stolen-in-Westminster-City-Council-cyber-attack
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Emerge as Bold AI Adopters, While AI Changes Data Security Game, CSA Reports Say
Tags: advisory, ai, api, attack, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credit-card, crime, crimes, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, guide, healthcare, injection, intelligence, law, LLM, lockbit, malicious, metric, mitigation, monitoring, network, office, openai, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, skills, sql, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityFormerly “AI shy” cyber pros have done a 180 and become AI power users, as AI forces data security changes, the CSA says. Plus, PwC predicts orgs will get serious about responsible AI usage in 2026, while the NCSC states that, no, prompt injection isn’t the new SQL injection. And much more! Key takeaways Cyber…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Emerge as Bold AI Adopters, While AI Changes Data Security Game, CSA Reports Say
Tags: advisory, ai, api, attack, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credit-card, crime, crimes, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, guide, healthcare, injection, intelligence, law, LLM, lockbit, malicious, metric, mitigation, monitoring, network, office, openai, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, skills, sql, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityFormerly “AI shy” cyber pros have done a 180 and become AI power users, as AI forces data security changes, the CSA says. Plus, PwC predicts orgs will get serious about responsible AI usage in 2026, while the NCSC states that, no, prompt injection isn’t the new SQL injection. And much more! Key takeaways Cyber…
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Keyboard Lag Leads Amazon to North Korean Impostor in Remote Role
Amazon Security Chief explains how a subtle keyboard delay exposed a North Korean impostor. Read about the laptop farm scheme and how 110 milliseconds of lag ended a major corporate infiltration. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/keyboard-lag-amazon-north-korea-impostor-remote-role/
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UK Foreign Office Cyber Breach Exposed Diplomatic Secrets
The government stopped short of directly attributing the attack to Chinese operatives or the Chinese state. The post UK Foreign Office Cyber Breach Exposed Diplomatic Secrets appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-uk-foreign-office-cyber-breach/
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Over 25,000 FortiCloud SSO devices exposed to remote attacks
Internet security watchdog Shadowserver has found over 25,000 Fortinet devices exposed online with FortiCloud SSO enabled, amid ongoing attacks targeting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-25-000-forticloud-sso-devices-exposed-to-remote-attacks/
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Attackers bring their own passwords to Cisco and Palo Alto VPNs
Tags: authentication, cisco, credentials, data-breach, endpoint, infrastructure, login, malicious, mfa, password, threat, vpnBrute-forcing Cisco’s SSL VPN follows: Just a day after the GlobalProtect surge, the same actor infrastructure pivoted to Cisco’s SSL VPN endpoints, with the same TCP fingerprint and hosting provider IP space. GreyNoise saw the number of unique attacking IPs jump from a typical daily baseline of fewer than 200 to over 1200, signalling a…
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Attackers bring their own passwords to Cisco and Palo Alto VPNs
Tags: authentication, cisco, credentials, data-breach, endpoint, infrastructure, login, malicious, mfa, password, threat, vpnBrute-forcing Cisco’s SSL VPN follows: Just a day after the GlobalProtect surge, the same actor infrastructure pivoted to Cisco’s SSL VPN endpoints, with the same TCP fingerprint and hosting provider IP space. GreyNoise saw the number of unique attacking IPs jump from a typical daily baseline of fewer than 200 to over 1200, signalling a…
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Attackers bring their own passwords to Cisco and Palo Alto VPNs
Tags: authentication, cisco, credentials, data-breach, endpoint, infrastructure, login, malicious, mfa, password, threat, vpnBrute-forcing Cisco’s SSL VPN follows: Just a day after the GlobalProtect surge, the same actor infrastructure pivoted to Cisco’s SSL VPN endpoints, with the same TCP fingerprint and hosting provider IP space. GreyNoise saw the number of unique attacking IPs jump from a typical daily baseline of fewer than 200 to over 1200, signalling a…
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University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info
Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-sydney-suffers-data-breach-exposing-student-and-staff-info/
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Clop ransomware targets Gladinet CentreStack in data theft attacks
The Clop ransomware gang is targeting Internet-exposed Gladinet CentreStack file servers in a new data theft extortion campaign. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clop-ransomware-targets-gladinet-centrestack-servers-for-extortion/
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Tech provider for NHS England confirms data breach
U.K.-based healthcare tech provider DXS International said it discovered and contained a data breach on Sunday. A ransomware gang took credit for the breach. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/tech-provider-for-nhs-england-confirms-data-breach/
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Hackers breach internal servers of tech provider for Britain’s health service
In a disclosure to the London Stock Exchange, the the U.K. healthcare IT provider DXS said it discovered a data breach on December 14. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-nhs-tech-provider-dxs-discloses-hack
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The Biggest Cyber Stories of the Year: What 2025 Taught Us
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, banking, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, healthcare, iam, identity, incident, incident response, Internet, law, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, privacy, regulation, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-day, zero-trustThe Biggest Cyber Stories of the Year: What 2025 Taught Us madhav Thu, 12/18/2025 – 10:30 2025 didn’t just test cybersecurity; it redefined it. From supply chains and healthcare networks to manufacturing floors and data centers, the digital world was reminded of a simple truth: everything is connected, and everything is at risk. Data Security…
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SoundCloud Cyberattack Leaves 28M Users Exposed
The breach has already triggered widespread chaos across the platform, with users worldwide reporting connection failures and cryptic error messages. The post SoundCloud Cyberattack Leaves 28M Users Exposed appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-soundcloud-cyberattack/
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D&O liability protection rising for security leaders, unless you’re a midtier CISO
Tags: access, best-practice, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, finance, governance, incident response, insurance, jobs, law, network, risk, risk-management, security-incident, toolA question of indemnity: But Ryan Griffin, US cyber leader at insurance broker McGill and Partners, points out that the difference between D&O insurance and a direct indemnification agreement is often misunderstood.”The most crucial tool for a CISO’s protection is the indemnification agreement with their employer,” Griffin explains. “The D&O policy is how the company…
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SoundCloud Cyberattack Leaves 28M Users Exposed
The breach has already triggered widespread chaos across the platform, with users worldwide reporting connection failures and cryptic error messages. The post SoundCloud Cyberattack Leaves 28M Users Exposed appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-soundcloud-cyberattack/
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D&O liability protection rising for security leaders, unless you’re a midtier CISO
Tags: access, best-practice, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, finance, governance, incident response, insurance, jobs, law, network, risk, risk-management, security-incident, toolA question of indemnity: But Ryan Griffin, US cyber leader at insurance broker McGill and Partners, points out that the difference between D&O insurance and a direct indemnification agreement is often misunderstood.”The most crucial tool for a CISO’s protection is the indemnification agreement with their employer,” Griffin explains. “The D&O policy is how the company…
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140K Childcare Records Exposed in CRM Database Leak
A misconfigured childcare CRM exposed 140,000 records linking parents and children. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/140k-childcare-records-exposed-in-crm-database-leak/
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Complying with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Cloud Advisory: How Tenable Can Help
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, country, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, fintech, framework, google, governance, government, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustThe Monetary Authority of Singapore’s cloud advisory, part of its 2021 Technology Risk Management Guidelines, advises financial institutions to move beyond siloed monitoring to adopt a continuous, enterprise-wide approach. These firms must undergo annual audits. Here’s how Tenable can help. Key takeaways: High-stakes compliance: The MAS requires all financial institutions in Singapore to meet mandatory…
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SoundCloud Breach Potentially Affects Millions of Accounts
SoundCloud confirmed a breach that exposed user data through an internal dashboard, potentially affecting millions of accounts. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/soundcloud-breach-potentially-affects-millions-of-accounts/
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The 12 Months of Innovation: How Salt Security Helped Rewrite API AI Security in 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, data, data-breach, defense, detection, email, exploit, github, governance, injection, insurance, intelligence, privacy, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, wafAs holiday lights go up and inboxes fill with year-in-review emails, it’s tempting to look back on 2025 as “the year of AI.” But for security teams, it was something more specific the year APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers collided across the API fabric, expanding the attack surface faster than most organizations could keep…
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Askul data breach exposed over 700,000 records after ransomware attack
Askul disclosed that an October RansomHouse ransomware attack compromised over 700,000 records at the Japanese e-commerce and logistics firm. Askul is a Japanese e-commerce and logistics company best known for supplying office products, stationery, IT equipment, and everyday business consumables to companies and consumers. It operates large-scale fulfillment and delivery services across Japan and is…
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FortiGate firewall credentials being stolen after vulnerabilities discovered
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, best-practice, breach, ceo, cisa, credentials, cve, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, firewall, flaw, fortinet, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, kev, least-privilege, login, malicious, network, password, software, theft, threat, update, vulnerabilityCSO. “So far, the pattern of activity has appeared to be opportunistic in nature. While it is difficult to estimate the number of devices directly vulnerable to this vulnerability, there are hundreds of thousands of Fortinet appliances accessible on the public internet through specialized search engines. This allows threat actors to opportunistically attempt exploitation against…
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Real Attacks of the Week: How Spyware Beaconing and Exploit Probing Are Shaping Modern Intrusions
Over the past week, enterprise security teams observed a combination of covert malware communication attempts and aggressive probing of publicly exposed infrastructure. These incidents, detected across firewall and endpoint security layers, demonstrate how modern cyber attackers operate simultaneously. While quietly activating compromised internal systems, they also relentlessly scan external services for exploitable weaknesses. Although the…
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4.3B LinkedIn-Style Records Found in One of the Largest Data Exposures Ever
An unsecured database exposed 4.3 billion LinkedIn-derived records, enabling large-scale phishing and identity-based attacks. The post 4.3B LinkedIn-Style Records Found in One of the Largest Data Exposures Ever appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-4-3-billion-linkedin-records-exposed/
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JumpCloud Windows Agent Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation
A flaw in JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows has exposed managed endpoints to local privilege escalation and denial-of-service attacks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/jumpcloud-windows-agent-flaw/