Tag: data
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Human resources firm Workday disclosed a data breach
Human resources firm Workday disclosed a data breach after attackers accessed a third-party CRM platform via social engineering. Workday is a cloud-based software company that specializes in enterprise applications for human capital management (HCM), financial management, and planning. The company provides services to over 11,000 organizations, including over 60% of Fortune 500 firms. The HR…
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Scammers Target BackSchool Deals, Diverting Shoppers to Fraud Sites
As the back-to-school season intensifies, cybercriminals are exploiting the heightened online shopping activity by deploying sophisticated scams aimed at siphoning funds and personal data from unsuspecting consumers. According to retail analytics, U.S. households allocate approximately $860 per child on essentials like supplies, apparel, and electronics, creating a lucrative window for threat actors. These perpetrators engineer…
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Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution, with asterisks
Tags: ai, api, authentication, ceo, ciso, cloud, control, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, infrastructure, jobs, LLM, open-source, openai, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, tool, update, vulnerabilityTrust, transparency, and moving slowly are crucial: Like all technologies, and perhaps more dramatically than most, agentic AI carries both risks and benefits. One obvious risk of AI agents is that, like most LLM models, they will hallucinate or make errors that could cause problems.”If you want to remove or give agency to a platform…
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Hundreds of TeslaMate Servers Expose Real-Time Vehicle Data
A security researcher has discovered that hundreds of self-hosted TeslaMate servers are exposing sensitive Tesla vehicle data to the public internet without any authentication, revealing real-time location tracking, charging patterns, and driving habits of unsuspecting owners. TeslaMate is a popular open-source data logger that connects to Tesla’s official API to collect detailed vehicle telemetry including…
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Unbefugter Zugriff bei einem Bodenabfertigungsunternehmen in Großbritannien
Afghans resettled in UK hit by new data breach First seen on bbc.com Jump to article: www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce87nyr3evro
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Review: Data Engineering for Cybersecurity
Data Engineering for Cybersecurity sets out to bridge a gap many security teams encounter: knowing what to do with the flood of logs, events, and telemetry they collect. About … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/18/review-data-engineering-for-cybersecurity/
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Review: Data Engineering for Cybersecurity
Data Engineering for Cybersecurity sets out to bridge a gap many security teams encounter: knowing what to do with the flood of logs, events, and telemetry they collect. About … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/18/review-data-engineering-for-cybersecurity/
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Weak alerting and slipping prevention raise risk levels for CISOs
Prevention effectiveness is falling, detection gaps remain wide, and attackers are exploiting weaknesses in data protection and credentials. Data theft prevention has dropped … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/18/ciso-cybersecurity-prevention-effectiveness/
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Was ist Cybersicherheit: Zero Trust und Mikrosegmentierung
Cyberresilienz, Data Security, Data Protection “¦ die Liste ließe sich beliebig fortsetzen. Vor allem für Entscheider, die sich nicht täglich mit der Thematik befassen, ist mittlerweile kaum verständlich, worum es im Kern geht. Zero Networks, Experte für Mikrosegmentierung und Zero Trust, erläutert daher im folgenden Beitrag die Grundlagen klassischer Cybersicherheit. Cybersicherheit Cybersicherheit ist… First seen…
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Threat Actor Claims to Sell 15.8 Million Plain-Text PayPal Credentials
A seller named Chucky_BF is offering 15.8M PayPal logins with emails, passwords, and URLs. The data may come… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/threat-actor-selling-plain-text-paypal-credentials/
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Are Your Travel Data Secrets Truly Protected?
Is Your Travel Organization Safeguarding Its Precious Data? With cybersecurity increasingly becomes a topic of concern in every industry, the travel sector isn’t exempted. The pressing question is, “Are your travel data secrets truly protected?” Despite the advancements in data security technology, loopholes exist. This is where concepts like Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and secrets security……
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Empowering SOC Teams with Advanced NHIDR Solutions
Can Non-Human Identity and Data Rights Solutions Revolutionize Your Cybersecurity Protocol? Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are proving to be fundamental. When data breaches escalate both in frequency and impact, a renewed focus has shifted towards robust security measures where NHIs and Secrets Security Management take center stage. NHI management has emerged as a crucial, yet underrepresented……
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Navigating the Cybersecurity Budget TugWar
Companies ready to move beyond reactive defense and toward full-spectrum protection need to invest in strategies that rally around resiliency, unified cybersecurity, and data protection. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/navigating-cybersecurity-budget-tug-of-war
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How have you seen successful organizations integrate HIPAA compliance into their everyday operations rather than treating it as just an annual audit requirement?
Organizations that treat HIPAA compliance as a living, breathing part of their operations, not just an annual checkbox, are the ones best positioned to protect patient data, mitigate risk, and build enduring trust with patients and partners. Based on patterns observed across successful healthcare providers, health-tech companies, and third-party service organizations, a recurring theme emerges:…The…
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Docker Hub still hosts dozens of Linux images with the XZ backdoor
The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/docker-hub-still-hosts-dozens-of-linux-images-with-the-xz-backdoor/
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IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report drives home that point: attackers today are often “logging in rather than hacking in”. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/ibms-cost-of-a-data-breach-report-2025/
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Cybercrime Groups ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider Join Forces in Extortion Attacks on Businesses
Tags: attack, credentials, cybercrime, data, extortion, finance, group, service, tactics, technology, theftAn ongoing data extortion campaign targeting Salesforce customers may soon turn its attention to financial services and technology service providers, as ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider appear to be working hand in hand, new findings show.”This latest wave of ShinyHunters-attributed attacks reveals a dramatic shift in tactics, moving beyond the group’s previous credential theft and database…
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ShinyHunters Claims BreachForums Seized by Law Enforcement, Now a Honeypot
Tags: authentication, breach, communications, cyber, data, hacking, infrastructure, law, privacy, threatThe threat actor known as ShinyHunters has publicly disclosed what they claim is a covert seizure of BreachForums, a notorious online platform used for trading stolen data and discussing illicit hacking activities. According to ShinyHunters’ announcement, the forum’s core infrastructure, including its official Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) key used for cryptographic authentication and secure communications,…
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A New Security Threat to Public Clouds From Old Vulnerabilities
Researchers at the WHY2025 hacker forum said they were able to combine the Spectre and L1TF processor vulnerabilities discovered in 2018 to create a new transient execution attack called L1TF Reloaded that allowed them to leak data from AWS and Google Cloud instances. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/a-new-security-threat-to-public-clouds-from-old-vulnerabilities/
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Executive PII Exposure: Why You Need Ongoing Monitoring
Nisos Executive PII Exposure: Why You Need Ongoing Monitoring Exposed personal data is fueling executive impersonation, fraud, and social engineering. Here’s what enterprise leaders need to know… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/executive-pii-exposure-why-you-need-ongoing-monitoring/
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Third-Party Risk Set to Reshape AI Security
Lytical Ventures’ Taylor Margot on Autonomous Agents and New AI Defenses. As AI shifts toward autonomous agents, organizations face growing exposure from third-party systems. Strong permissioning, data orchestration and new defenses are essential to protect against opaque and potentially costly security risks, said Taylor Margot, partner at Lytical Ventures. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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New ‘Curly COMrades’ APT Using NGEN COM Hijacking in Georgia, Moldova Attacks
A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Curly COMrades has been observed targeting entities in Georgia and Moldova as part of a cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate long-term access to target networks.”They repeatedly tried to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers — the primary repository for user password hashes and authentication data in a…
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Interlock Ransomware Group Leaks 43GB of Data in City of St. Paul Cyberattack
St. Paul hit by Interlock ransomware attack, 43GB of sensitive data leaked, city refuses ransom, launches Operation Secure… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/interlock-ransomware-leaks-st-paul-city-cyberattack-data/
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Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/data-brokers-hiding-opt-out-pages-google-search/
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Manpower discloses data breach affecting nearly 145,000 people
Manpower, one of the world’s largest staffing companies, is notifying nearly 145,000 individuals that their information was stolen by attackers who breached the company’s systems in December 2024. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/manpower-staffing-agency-discloses-data-breach-after-attack-claimed-by-ransomhub/
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Scattered Spider’s New Telegram Channel Names Targeted Organizations
A new Telegram channel that combined the names of well-known threat actor organizations Shiny Hunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsus$ emerged on Friday afternoon in a daring uptick in cyberthreat activity. This platform, potentially short-lived due to Telegram’s moderation policies, has rapidly disseminated evidence of multiple data breaches, partial data leaks, and extortion demands within its…
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Scattered Spider’s New Telegram Channel Names Targeted Organizations
A new Telegram channel that combined the names of well-known threat actor organizations Shiny Hunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsus$ emerged on Friday afternoon in a daring uptick in cyberthreat activity. This platform, potentially short-lived due to Telegram’s moderation policies, has rapidly disseminated evidence of multiple data breaches, partial data leaks, and extortion demands within its…
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How to detect Open Bullet 2 bots running in Puppeteer mode
Open Bullet 2 is an open-source tool built for credential stuffing attacks, automated attempts to gain access to user accounts using stolen credentials from data breaches. It supports both website and mobile application targets and has become a staple in the fraud ecosystem due to its flexibility, extensibility, and active First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…