Tag: data-breach
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Methodology: How we discovered over 2k high-impact vulnerabilities in apps built with vibe coding platforms
Discover the security risks in vibe-coded applications as we uncover over 2,000 vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and PII First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/methodology-how-we-discovered-over-2k-high-impact-vulnerabilities-in-apps-built-with-vibe-coding-platforms/
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Google Wear OS Flaw Lets Any App Send Texts on Behalf of Users
A critical vulnerability discovered in Google Messages for Wear OS has exposed millions of smartwatch users to a significant security risk. Identified as CVE-2025-12080, the flaw allows any installed application to send text messages on behalf of the user without requiring permissions, confirmation, or user interaction. Security researcher Gabriele Digregorio discovered the vulnerability in March…
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Massive Tata Motors Data Leak Exposes 70+ TB of Sensitive Information
Tata Motors, India’s largest automaker and a major player in the global automotive industry, suffered a catastrophic data exposure that revealed over 70 terabytes of sensitive information through multiple security failures. The breaches, discovered in 2023, involved exposed AWS credentials on public-facing websites, encrypted keys that were easily decrypted, a Tableau backdoor with zero authentication…
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Product showcase: Syteca The human-centric insider threat management platform
Most organizations think the greatest danger lurks outside their walls. But statistics keep proving otherwise. According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigation … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/29/product-showcase-syteca-cybersecurity-platform/
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Tata Motors confirms it fixed security flaws, which exposed company and customer data
A security researcher found the Indian automotive giant exposing personal information of its customers, internal company reports, and dealers’ data. Tata confirmed it fixed the issues. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-confirms-it-fixed-security-flaws-that-exposed-company-and-customer-data/
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Advertising giant Dentsu reports data breach at subsidiary Merkle
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has disclosed that its U.S.-based subsidiary Merkle suffered a cybersecurity incident that exposed staff and client data. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/advertising-giant-dentsu-reports-data-breach-at-subsidiary-merkle/
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Security for AI: A Practical Guide to Enforcing Your AI Acceptable Use Policy
Tags: access, ai, awareness, best-practice, business, chatgpt, compliance, control, corporate, data, data-breach, disinformation, finance, governance, government, guide, intelligence, LLM, malicious, monitoring, openai, privacy, regulation, risk, service, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityAn AI acceptable use policy can help your organization mitigate the risk of employees accidentally exposing sensitive data to public AI tools. Benchmark your organization’s policy against our best practices and discover how prompt-level visibility from Tenable AI Exposure eases policy enforcement. Key takeaways: An AI acceptable use policy governs the appropriate use of generative…
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How evolving regulations are redefining CISO responsibility
Tags: attack, awareness, breach, ciso, communications, compliance, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, governance, identity, incident response, intelligence, iot, nis-2, phone, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-management, sbom, service, software, threat, tool, vulnerabilityIncreasing attacks on IoT and OT device vulnerabilities Cyberattacks are increasingly driven by software vulnerabilities embedded in OT and IoT devices. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report noted that 20% of breaches were vulnerability-based, which is a close second to credential abuse, accounting for 22% of breaches. Year over year, breaches resulting from software…
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Gmail-Linked Credentials Exposed in Massive Breach
A dataset of 183 million credentials surfaced online, exposing users and raising new security concerns for businesses. This includes many Gmail users. The post Gmail-Linked Credentials Exposed in Massive Breach appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-183m-gmail-accounts-breach/
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183M Gmail-Linked Credentials Exposed in Massive Breach
A dataset of 183 million Gmail-linked credentials surfaced online, exposing users and raising new security concerns for businesses. The post 183M Gmail-Linked Credentials Exposed in Massive Breach appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-183m-gmail-accounts-breach/
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Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD’s Afghan data breach
Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/impact_afghan_data_breach/
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Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD’s Afghan data breach
Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/impact_afghan_data_breach/
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Volvo’s recent security breach: 5 tips to speed incident response while preserving forensic integrity
Tags: access, automation, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, guide, incident, incident response, insurance, metric, mitigation, nist, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, security-incident, siem, soar, supply-chain, vulnerabilityIdentify and catalog your evidence sources in advance (endpoints, memory, logs, cloud assets)Stage scripts or agents that can snapshot memory and archive logs immediately when an IR trigger firesMake forensic collection part of containment, not something you tack on afterwardModern approaches and even NIST’s updated guidance emphasize that evidence gathering should begin during, not after,…
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Volvo’s recent security breach: 5 tips to speed incident response while preserving forensic integrity
Tags: access, automation, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, guide, incident, incident response, insurance, metric, mitigation, nist, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, security-incident, siem, soar, supply-chain, vulnerabilityIdentify and catalog your evidence sources in advance (endpoints, memory, logs, cloud assets)Stage scripts or agents that can snapshot memory and archive logs immediately when an IR trigger firesMake forensic collection part of containment, not something you tack on afterwardModern approaches and even NIST’s updated guidance emphasize that evidence gathering should begin during, not after,…
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Conduent says data breach originally began with 2024 intrusion
The cyberattack, which impacted several state agencies, has also impacted multiple insurance providers. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/conduent-data-breach-began-2024-intrusion/803930/
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Iranian Intel-Linked Cybersecurity School Hit by Data Breach
Ravin Academy Records Reveal Identities of More Than 1,000 Participants. A public database of internal records from Iran’s Ravin Academy – a cyber school linked to the Ministry of Intelligence – has been published online, exposing potentially sensitive data on over 1,000 trainees, including individuals reportedly tied to Western institutions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Google disputes false claims of massive Gmail data breach
Google was once again forced to announce that it had not suffered a data breach after numerous news outlets published sensational stories about a fake breach that purportedly exposed 183 million accounts. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-disputes-false-claims-of-massive-gmail-data-breach/
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Sweden’s power grid operator confirms data breach claimed by ransomware gang
The utility responsible for operating Sweden’s power grid is investigating a data breach after a ransomware group threatened to leak hundreds of gigabytes of purportedly stolen internal data. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/sweden-power-grid-operator-data
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DomeWatch Leak Exposed Personal Data of Capitol Hill Applicants
Unsecured House Democrats’ resume bank (DomeWatch) exposed 7,000 records, including PII and “top secret” clearance status, raising identity theft fears. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/domewatch-leak-capitol-hill-applicants-data/
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Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website
A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-people-with-top-secret-clearance-exposed-by-house-democrats-website/
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706,000+ BIND 9 DNS Resolvers Exposed to Cache Poisoning PoC Released
A critical vulnerability affecting more than 706,000 BIND 9 DNS resolvers worldwide has been disclosed with proof-of-concept exploit code now publicly available. The security flaw enables attackers to perform cache poisoning attacks by injecting malicious DNS records into vulnerable resolver caches, potentially redirecting users to attacker-controlled infrastructure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40778, was disclosed by…
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NDSS 2025 Oreo: Protecting ASLR Against Micro-Architectural Attacks
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Shixin Song (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joseph Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mengjia Yan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) PAPER Oreo: Protecting ASLR Against Microarchitectural Attacks Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is one of the most prominently deployed mitigations against memory corruption attacks. ASLR randomly shuffles program virtual addresses to prevent attackers…
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Uncovering Qilin attack methods exposed through multiple cases
Cisco Talos investigated the Qilin ransomware group, uncovering its frequent attacks on the manufacturing sector, use of legitimate tools for credential theft and data exfiltration, and sophisticated methods for lateral movement, evasion, and persistence. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/uncovering-qilin-attack-methods-exposed-through-multiple-cases/
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Yale New Haven Health Will Pay $18M to Settle Hack Lawsuit
March Breach Affected Nearly 5.6 Million; NextGen Proposed Settlement Also Reached. Connecticut’s largest healthcare network – Yale New Haven Health System – has agreed to pay $18 million to settle class action litigation filed in the aftermath of a March hack affecting nearly 5.6 million people. The incident ranks as the biggest health data breach…
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IIS Servers Hijacked via Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys, Malicious Modules Injected in the Wild
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign that exploited publicly exposed ASP.NET machine keys to compromise hundreds of Internet Information Services (IIS) servers worldwide. The operation, detected in late August and early September 2025, deployed a previously undocumented malicious module dubbed >>HijackServer
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IIS Servers Hijacked via Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys, Malicious Modules Injected in the Wild
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign that exploited publicly exposed ASP.NET machine keys to compromise hundreds of Internet Information Services (IIS) servers worldwide. The operation, detected in late August and early September 2025, deployed a previously undocumented malicious module dubbed >>HijackServer
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IIS Servers Hijacked via Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys, Malicious Modules Injected in the Wild
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign that exploited publicly exposed ASP.NET machine keys to compromise hundreds of Internet Information Services (IIS) servers worldwide. The operation, detected in late August and early September 2025, deployed a previously undocumented malicious module dubbed >>HijackServer