Tag: data-breach
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Ransomware Operators Exploit RMM Tools to Deploy Medusa and DragonForce
Tags: attack, breach, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, group, infrastructure, monitoring, ransomware, service, software, supply-chain, tool, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers at Zensec have exposed a sophisticated supply-chain attack campaign that weaponised trusted Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) infrastructure to deploy ransomware across multiple UK organisations throughout early 2025. The investigation reveals how two prominent ransomware-as-a-service groups exploited critical vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp RMM software to breach downstream customers through their managed service providers. The…
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Data Leak Exposes Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Arsenal and Target Database
Tags: breach, china, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, hacking, international, leak, theft, toolIn early November 2025, a massive data breach at Knownsec, a prominent Chinese cybersecurity firm with government ties, sent shockwaves through the international security community. The incident, reported on November 2, resulted in the theft of over 12,000 classified documents exposing sophisticated state-sponsored cyber weapons, internal hacking tools, and a comprehensive global target list spanning…
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Data Leak Exposes Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Arsenal and Target Database
Tags: breach, china, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, hacking, international, leak, theft, toolIn early November 2025, a massive data breach at Knownsec, a prominent Chinese cybersecurity firm with government ties, sent shockwaves through the international security community. The incident, reported on November 2, resulted in the theft of over 12,000 classified documents exposing sophisticated state-sponsored cyber weapons, internal hacking tools, and a comprehensive global target list spanning…
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Data Leak Exposes Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Arsenal and Target Database
Tags: breach, china, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, hacking, international, leak, theft, toolIn early November 2025, a massive data breach at Knownsec, a prominent Chinese cybersecurity firm with government ties, sent shockwaves through the international security community. The incident, reported on November 2, resulted in the theft of over 12,000 classified documents exposing sophisticated state-sponsored cyber weapons, internal hacking tools, and a comprehensive global target list spanning…
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Datenlecks im Gesundheitswesen: Warum die Gefahr trotz sinkender Kosten bleibt
Tags: data-breachTrotz eines leichten Rückgangs der durchschnittlichen Kosten pro Datenschutzvorfall von 10,93 Millionen US-Dollar im Jahr 2023 auf 9,77 Millionen im Jahr 2024 bleibt der Gesundheitssektor die am häufigsten angegriffene Branche. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/datenlecks-im-gesundheitswesen-warum-die-gefahr-trotz-sinkender-kosten-bleibt/a42656/
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Nikkei data breach exposes personal data of over 17,000 staff
Hackers used stolen login details from an employee’s computer to access the Japanese media giant’s Slack messaging platform, with names, e-mail addresses, and chat histories potentially exposed First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366634243/Nikkei-data-breach-exposes-personal-data-of-over-17000-staff
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NDSS 2025 Qualitative Study On Boards’ Cybersecurity Risk Decision Making
Tags: ciso, conference, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, fraud, Internet, network, phishing, risk, strategySESSION Session 2C: Phishing & Fraud 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jens Christian Opdenbusch (Ruhr University Bochum), Jonas Hielscher (Ruhr University Bochum), M. Angela Sasse (Ruhr University Bochum, University College London) PAPER “Where Are We On Cyber?” – A Qualitative Study On Boards’ Cybersecurity Risk Decision Making Boards are increasingly required to oversee the cybersecurity…
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Washington Post confirms data breach linked to Oracle hacks
The Washington Post is the latest victim of a hacking campaign by the notorious Clop ransomware gang, which relied on vulnerabilities in Oracle software used by many corporations. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/washington-post-confirms-data-breach-linked-to-oracle-hacks/
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ISMG Editors: Lawsuits Follow Year’s Top Health Data Breach
Conduent Gets Sued; US Government’s Cyber Shutdown Woes; Hacktivist Hits Rise. The latest ISMG Editors’ Panel tackles: post-hack legal fallout for Conduent after it suffered the year’s biggest health data breach, the U.S. government’s shutdown complicating its response to the breach of vendor F5 and the rise in attacks targeting Western critical national infrastructure. First…
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Stop Paying the Password Tax: A CFO’s Guide to Affordable Zero-Trust Access
In 2025, stolen credentials remain the most common and fastest path into an organization’s systems. Nearly half of breaches begin with compromised logins. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report puts it bluntly: “Hackers don’t break in anymore, they log in.” Web application attacks have followed suit, with 88% now using stolen credentials as the..…
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Stop Paying the Password Tax: A CFO’s Guide to Affordable Zero-Trust Access
In 2025, stolen credentials remain the most common and fastest path into an organization’s systems. Nearly half of breaches begin with compromised logins. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report puts it bluntly: “Hackers don’t break in anymore, they log in.” Web application attacks have followed suit, with 88% now using stolen credentials as the..…
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Vibe-coded ransomware proof-of-concept ended up on Microsoft’s marketplace
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, data, data-breach, github, infrastructure, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, ransomware, toolExtension pointed to a GitHub-based C2: Ransomvibe deployed a rather unusual GitHub-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, instead of relying on traditional C2 servers. The extension used a private GitHub repository to receive and execute commands. It routinely checked for new commits in a file named “index.html”, executed the embedded commands, and then wrote the output back…
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Business continuity and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin
Tags: access, ai, attack, backup, breach, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, finance, framework, google, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, network, nist, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, sans, service, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, training, veeam, vulnerability, zero-trustWhy traditional business continuity plans fail against modern threats: I’ve implemented change management processes in environments requiring 99.99% uptime and I can tell you that most business continuity plans were designed for a different era. They assume that your backup systems, communication channels and recovery procedures will be available when you need them. Today’s threat…
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Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?
Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trustStop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
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Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?
Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trustStop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?
Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trustStop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
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Nikkei-Daten über Slack-Konto eines Mitarbeiters geleakt
Tags: access, computer, cyberattack, data-breach, finance, hacker, mail, password, phishing, ransomware, usa, virusEin kompromittierter Rechner und schon hatten Kriminelle alles Nötige, um auf Nikkeis Slack-Plattform zuzugreifen.Unbefugte hatten Zugang zur Messaging-Plattform Slack von Nikkei, einem der größten Medienkonzerne weltweit, zu dem unter anderem die Financial Times gehört. Wie das Unternehmen bekannt gab, wurden dabei möglicherweise Daten von über 17.000 Mitarbeitenden und Geschäftspartnern gestohlen.Darunter können sich Namen, E-Mail-Adressen und…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Nikkei-Daten über Slack-Konto eines Mitarbeiters geleakt
Tags: access, computer, cyberattack, data-breach, finance, hacker, mail, password, phishing, ransomware, usa, virusEin kompromittierter Rechner und schon hatten Kriminelle alles Nötige, um auf Nikkeis Slack-Plattform zuzugreifen.Unbefugte hatten Zugang zur Messaging-Plattform Slack von Nikkei, einem der größten Medienkonzerne weltweit, zu dem unter anderem die Financial Times gehört. Wie das Unternehmen bekannt gab, wurden dabei möglicherweise Daten von über 17.000 Mitarbeitenden und Geschäftspartnern gestohlen.Darunter können sich Namen, E-Mail-Adressen und…
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Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?
Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trustStop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
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Vibe-coded ransomware proof-of-concept ended up on Microsoft’s marketplace
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, data, data-breach, github, infrastructure, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, ransomware, toolExtension pointed to a GitHub-based C2: Ransomvibe deployed a rather unusual GitHub-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, instead of relying on traditional C2 servers. The extension used a private GitHub repository to receive and execute commands. It routinely checked for new commits in a file named “index.html”, executed the embedded commands, and then wrote the output back…
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Business continuity and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin
Tags: access, ai, attack, backup, breach, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, finance, framework, google, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, network, nist, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, sans, service, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, training, veeam, vulnerability, zero-trustWhy traditional business continuity plans fail against modern threats: I’ve implemented change management processes in environments requiring 99.99% uptime and I can tell you that most business continuity plans were designed for a different era. They assume that your backup systems, communication channels and recovery procedures will be available when you need them. Today’s threat…
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U.S. Congressional Budget Office Hit by Cyberattack, Sensitive Data Compromised
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which serves as Congress’s official financial advisor, has been targeted in a suspected cyberattack by suspected foreign actors. The breach exposed sensitive financial research data that lawmakers rely on to make crucial budgeting decisions and craft legislation affecting millions of Americans. The CBO confirmed the attack through an official agency…
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U.S. Congressional Budget Office Hit by Cyberattack, Sensitive Data Compromised
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which serves as Congress’s official financial advisor, has been targeted in a suspected cyberattack by suspected foreign actors. The breach exposed sensitive financial research data that lawmakers rely on to make crucial budgeting decisions and craft legislation affecting millions of Americans. The CBO confirmed the attack through an official agency…
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U.S. Congressional Budget Office Hit by Cyberattack, Sensitive Data Compromised
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which serves as Congress’s official financial advisor, has been targeted in a suspected cyberattack by suspected foreign actors. The breach exposed sensitive financial research data that lawmakers rely on to make crucial budgeting decisions and craft legislation affecting millions of Americans. The CBO confirmed the attack through an official agency…