Tag: data
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Sweden scrambles after ransomware attack puts sensitive worker data at risk
Municipal government organisations across Sweden have found themselves impacted after a ransomware attack at a third-party software service supplier. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/sweden-scrambles-after-ransomware-attack-puts-sensitive-worker-data-at-risk
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TransUnion Data Breach: 4.4 Million US Consumers’ Data Stolen
A TransUnion data breach exposed 4.4 million US consumers’ Social Security numbers via a Salesforce hack. The attack… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/transunion-data-breach-4mil-us-consumer-data-stolen/
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Home Office ‘back door’ seeks world-wide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm
A court filing sates a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and ‘metadata’ of customers using Apple’s iCloud service anywhere in the world First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366630023/Home-Office-back-door-seeks-world-wide-access-to-Apple-iCloud-users-data-court-documents-confirm
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Microsoft says recent Windows update didn’t kill your SSD
Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-recent-KB5063878-windows-update-didnt-kill-your-ssd/
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Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger
Assume all Salesloft credentials are compromised after Workspace breach, Google says. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/google-warns-that-mass-data-theft-hitting-salesloft-ai-agent-has-grown-bigger/
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Gain Confidence with Proactive NHIDR
Could Proactive NHIDR Be the Key to Unwavering Cybersecurity Confidence? The security of our systems and data is fundamental to our business operations and customer trust. Security breaches not only risk loss of valuable information but can significantly damage an organization’s reputation and stakeholder trust. Given these risks, it is no surprise that gaining cybersecurity……
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Enhancing Protection with Smart Secret Vaulting
Why is Smart Secret Vaulting a Milestone in Data Protection? Smart secret vaulting is a revolutionary milestone in data protection, offering impeccable defense against devastating data breaches. But how does it achieve this level of protection? What role does Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play in this? Let’s delve into these questions. NHIs constitute a significant portion……
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Can Your Security Stack See ChatGPT? Why Network Visibility Matters
Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude are increasingly common in organizations. While these solutions improve efficiency across tasks, they also present new data leak prevention for generative AI challenges. Sensitive information may be shared through chat prompts, files uploaded for AI-driven summarization, or browser plugins that bypass familiar security controls. First seen…
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Npm Package Hijacked to Steal Data and Crypto via AI-Powered Malware
A software supply chain attack targeting Nx marks the first known case where attackers have leveraged developer AI assistants, according to StepSecurity First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/npm-package-hijacked-ai-malware/
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TransUnion Data Breach Compromises Over 4 Million Customers
In a significant data breach disclosed by TransUnion LLC, more than 4.4 million consumers had sensitive personal information compromised in late July 2025. The credit reporting agency, headquartered at 555 W. Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, revealed the incident on August 26, following its discovery on July 30. TransUnion’s Senior Privacy Counsel, Sanjana Palla, reported…
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Inside the Scammer’s Mind: Attack Data Revealed
Inside the Mind of a Scammer: New Research That Unravels the Latest Fraud Trends To outsmart cybercriminals, you need to get inside their heads”, decipher their motives, anticipate their tactics. That’s exactly what our team of experts at Arkose Labs did. We pored over 12 months of data from some of the most heavily targeted…
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CrowdStrike Buys Onum for $290M to Boost SIEM Data Ingestion
Buying Spanish Startup Brings Real-Time Data Pipeline Tech to Boost SOC Efficiency. CrowdStrike announced plans to acquire Spanish startup Onum Technology for $290 million. The move brings advanced data pipeline tools into its Falcon platform, speeding up threat detection and consolidating SOC workflows for customers leaving legacy SIEMs. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Salt Typhoon Cyber Spies Breached 80+ Nations, FBI Warns
Salt Typhoon hackers bypassed smash-and-grab tactics, infiltrating routers and surveillance systems to steal sensitive data and evade detection. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-salt-typhoon-cyber-spies-breach/
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Your Map for the Cloud Security Maze: An Integrated Cloud Security Solution That’s Part of an Exposure Management Approach
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, business, ciso, cloud, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, guide, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, kubernetes, mitigation, risk, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementCheck out highlights from the IDC white paper “Bridging Cloud Security and Exposure Management for Unified Risk Reduction,” which explains how CNAPPs help security teams tame the complexity of multi-cloud environments by shifting from a reactive, alert-driven model to a proactive exposure management strategy. Organizations’ rapid expansion into the cloud has created a complex and…
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Next-Gen SIEM Platform
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) has long been the foundation of enterprise cybersecurity. Traditional SIEM platforms were built to collect logs, correlate events, and generate alerts. While revolutionary in their time, they now struggle to keep pace with the cloud-first, hybrid, and IoT-driven environments of today. Enterprises face exploding data volumes, advanced persistent threats,…
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US Senators Call for Details of Aflac Data Breach
Senate HELP Committee Leaders Ask Insurer: What Went Wrong in the Cyberattack?. A U.S. Senate committee is demanding details from insurance giant Aflac about the company’s recent cyberattack that compromised the personal and health information of a yet undisclosed number of Americans. Senators last year gave the same scrutiny to the Change Healthcare mega-breach. First…
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How Gainesville Regional Utilities is locking down vendor risk
Tags: access, breach, business, cio, ciso, compliance, conference, cyber, data, finance, group, HIPAA, infrastructure, malicious, penetration-testing, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, soc, strategy, threat, vulnerabilityIntake and triage: The requesting business unit submits an intake form detailing the vendor’s responsibilities, the IT service involved, the types of data needed, and any required system access. The IT security team then conducts an initial risk triage.Detailed assessment: If the vendor poses a moderate or high risk, it must complete a security questionnaire…
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2025 CSO Hall of Fame: George Finney on decryption risks, AI, and the CISO’s growing clout
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, computing, conference, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, intelligence, jobs, LLM, microsoft, risk, soc, threat, tool, zero-trustWhat do you see as the biggest cybersecurity challenges for the next generation of CISOs, and how should they prepare? : George Finney: One major challenge is the threat of attackers saving encrypted data today with the intention of decrypting it later. With quantum computing, we know that in five to 10 years, older encryption…
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Hackers Chase Credentials in Hybrid Cloud Deployments
Financially Motivated Actor Storm-0501 Systematically Probed Victim Environments. As enterprises go with hybrid cloud developments, so follow hackers, even if it means jumping through extra hoops to get to where the data is stored. Microsoft on Wednesday said it spotted a financially-motivated hacking group probing a hybrid on-premise. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Hackers Steal 4M+ TransUnion Customers’ Data
The credit reporting agency said the breach was limited to specific data elements and didn’t include credit reports or core credit information. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/hackers-transunion-customer-data
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1,000+ Devs Lose Their Secrets to an AI-Powered Stealer
One of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks to date caused immense amounts of data to leak to the Web in a matter of hours. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/1000-devs-lose-secrets-ai-powered-stealer
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CCSP certification: Exam, cost, requirements, training, salary
Tags: access, application-security, best-practice, china, cloud, compliance, computer, credentials, cybersecurity, data, governance, infosec, infrastructure, jobs, risk, skills, training, usaCCSP vs. CISSP: ISC2 also offers the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification aimed at upper-level security pros with industry experience. The biggest difference between these two certifications is that the CISSP exam draws from a much broader and more general pool of security knowledge, as it is meant to show that you can design,…
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Data breach at TransUnion impacts 4.4 million people
The incident began on July 28 and was discovered two days later, TransUnion told the Maine attorney general. A separate filing in Texas shows that Social Security numbers were among the leaked information. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/transunion-data-breach-4-million
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Oh goody, the ‘first known AI-powered ransomware’ has been discovered and it ‘may exfiltrate data, encrypt it, or potentially destroy it’
First seen on thesecurityblogger.com Jump to article: www.thesecurityblogger.com/oh-goody-the-first-known-ai-powered-ransomware-has-been-discovered-and-it-may-exfiltrate-data-encrypt-it-or-potentially-destroy-it/
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Malware devs abuse Anthropic’s Claude AI to build ransomware
Anthropic’s Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-devs-abuse-anthropics-claude-ai-to-build-ransomware/
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Microsoft warns of ransomware gang shifting to steal cloud data, lock companies out of systems
While ransomware gangs traditionally rely on deploying malware to encrypt files, a threat actor’s recent tactics show they no longer need to do that during attacks. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ransomware-gangs-shift-to-stealing-cloud-data
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Electronics Manufacturer Data I/O Suffers Ransomware Breach
Tags: attack, breach, cyber, cybersecurity, data, incident response, infrastructure, programming, ransomware, threatData I/O Corporation, a well-known electronics firm that specializes in device programming and security provisioning solutions, revealed a ransomware attack that penetrated its internal IT infrastructure in a major cybersecurity event. The incident, detected on August 16, 2025, prompted an immediate activation of the company’s incident response protocols, highlighting the persistent threat of ransomware in…