Tag: data
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Durch Datenlecks verursachte Kosten sind gefallen
Tags: ai, breach, cyberattack, data, data-breach, deep-fake, fraud, germany, ibm, infrastructure, phishing, risk, security-incident, service, usaDurch KI unterstützte Angriffe wie Phishing und Deepfakes nehmen weiter zu, doch Unternehmen zögern in gleichem Maße nachzurüsten.Die gute Nachricht zuerst: Wie IBM in seinem jährlich erscheinenden Cost of a Data Breach Report herausfand, sind die durchschnittlichen Kosten eines Datenlecks in Deutschland erstmals seit fünf Jahren wieder gesunken. Ein einzelner Vorfall kostete demnach 2024 im…
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Building Confidence in Your Secrets Vaults
Is Your Secrets Vault Ensuring Optimal Data Protection? Securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their accompanying secrets requires robust cybersecurity measures. NHIs, essentially machine identities, are a crucial part of cybersecurity infrastructure. They are crafted from a ‘Secret’, a unique identifier akin to a passport, and the permissions granted to that Secret by a destination server,……
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Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Flettner Rotor’
Tags: datavia the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/08/randall-munroes-xkcd-flettner-rotor/
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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-data-chatgpt/
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Dialysis Firm Attack Affects 1 Million, Costs $13.5M to Date
Interlock Claims to Have 1.5TB of DaVita’s Data as Expenses Mount. DaVita Inc., one of the largest kidney dialysis providers in the world, told regulators that an April cyberattack has cost the company $13.5 million so far and has affected more than one million people in the U.S., and counting. Interlock says it’s behind the…
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Researchers Uncover ECScape Flaw in Amazon ECS Enabling Cross-Task Credential Theft
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated an “end-to-end privilege escalation chain” in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that could be exploited by an attacker to conduct lateral movement, access sensitive data, and seize control of the cloud environment.The attack technique has been codenamed ECScape by Sweet Security researcher Naor Haziz, who presented the findings today at the…
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Act Now: $100M in FY25 Cyber Grants for SLTTs Available Before August 15
Tags: attack, breach, cisa, cloud, compliance, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, governance, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, iot, metric, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityWith over $100 million on the table in FY25 cybersecurity grants, state, local and tribal governments have until August 15, 2025 to apply to secure critical cyber funding to strengthen their defenses. On August 1st, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the FY 2025 Notice…
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The AI Security Dilemma: Navigating the High-Stakes World of Cloud AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, cloud, container, control, credentials, cve, data, data-breach, flaw, google, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, microsoft, risk, service, software, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAI presents an incredible opportunity for organizations even as it expands the attack surface in new and complex ways. For security leaders, the goal isn’t to stop AI adoption but to enable it securely. Artificial Intelligence is no longer on the horizon; it’s here, and it’s being built and deployed in the cloud at a…
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On the Rise: Ransomware Victims, Breaches, Infostealers
Tags: breach, credentials, cybercrime, data, data-breach, exploit, ransomware, threat, vulnerabilityResearchers See ‘Acceleration’ in Existing Threats, Ongoing Criminal Success. Cybercrime so far this year can be summarized as featuring more of everything, with researchers tracking increases in the number of ransomware and data breach victims, credentials stolen by infostealers, and new vulnerability disclosures with exploits coming to light. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Akira and Lynx Ransomware Target MSPs Using Stolen Credentials and Exploited Vulnerabilities
Tags: breach, credentials, cyber, data, defense, exploit, extortion, group, msp, ransomware, service, threat, vpn, vulnerabilityThe Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) dissected recent samples from the Akira and Lynx ransomware families, revealing incremental enhancements in their ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) models and double-extortion strategies. Both groups leverage stolen credentials, VPN vulnerabilities, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, defense evasion, and data exfiltration to infiltrate systems, primarily targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with recycled yet…
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Strong regulation can nudge automakers to improve customers’ privacy, research suggests
Fines from a state regulator pushed one car maker to improve the data privacy on its website and customer portal, and others seem to have taken notice, according to new ratings from the watchdog Privacy4Cars. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/automakers-data-privacy-ratings-websites-customer-portals
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A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users’ personal data and driver’s licenses
The newly launched app, now trending on Apple’s App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses/
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Google says the group behind last year’s Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances
ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/google_salesforce_attacks/
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Hacker Accesses Millions of IMDataCenter Records from Exposed AWS Bucket
Florida firm IMDataCenter exposed 38GB of sensitive data including names, emails and ownership info. At least one hacker accessed and downloaded the files. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/hacker-accesses-imdatacenter-records-exposed-aws-bucket/
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5 Things To Know On Salesforce Data Theft Attacks
A wave of data-theft attacks against Salesforce CRM customers have now compromised Google in addition to numerous other major companies. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/5-things-to-know-on-salesforce-data-theft-attacks
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Clinical Data Stolen in Cyber-Attack on Kidney Dialysis Provider DaVita
The incident, reported to be ransomware-related, has resulted in attackers stealing sensitive personal and clinical data, including lab test results First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/clinical-data-stolen-kidney/
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A Day in the Life of A SOC Operations Manager Prioritizing High-Risk Incidents to Improve SOC Efficiency
A Day in the Life of A SOC Operations Manager – Prioritizing High-Risk Incidents to Improve SOC Efficiency madhav Tue, 08/05/2025 – 05:14 Imagine the pulse of a Security Operations Center (SOC) where analysts, managers, and leaders navigate a whirlwind of incidents daily, with the stakes higher than ever. Picture them faced with an avalanche…
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Nvidia patches critical Triton server bugs that threaten AI model security
This could matter to AI everywhere: Wiz researchers focused their analysis on Triton’s Python backend, citing its popularity and central role in the system. While it handles models written in Python, it also serves as a dependency for several other backendsmeaning models configured under different frameworks may still rely on it during parts of the…
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Cisco Talos Researcher Reveals Method That Causes LLMs to Expose Training Data
In this TechRepublic interview, researcher Amy Chang details the decomposition method and shares how organizations can protect themselves from LLM data extraction. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-cisco-talos-generative-ai-llm-decomposition/
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Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts
Cisco has disclosed that cybercriminals stole the basic profile information of users registered on Cisco.com following a voice phishing (vishing) attack that targeted a company representative. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-discloses-data-breach-impacting-ciscocom-user-accounts/
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Self-Service Data Analytics erfolgreich implementieren
Statt Analysen allein durch spezialisierte IT- oder Datenteams erstellen zu lassen, befähigt SSDA Mitarbeiter aus allen Fachabteilungen, eigenständig Daten auszuwerten und datengetrieben Entscheidungen zu treffen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/self-service-data-analytics-erfolgreich-implementieren/a41615/
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Threat Actors Exploit Open-Source Vulnerabilities to Spread Malicious Code
Tags: ai, cyber, data, exploit, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, software, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityFortiGuard Labs has reported a sustained trend in the exploitation of open-source software (OSS) repositories for malware dissemination within supply chain ecosystems. As development workflows increasingly depend on third-party packages, adversaries are capitalizing on vulnerabilities in platforms like NPM and PyPI to inject malicious code, facilitate data exfiltration, and inflict broader damage. Leveraging proprietary AI-driven…
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Exposed Without a Breach: The Cost of Data Blindness
These are in plain sight without a Breach. No ransomware. No compromise. Just misconfigured systems, overpermissioned users, silent access. When we think of a breach, we imagine firewalls failing, malware spreading, or hackers stealing credentials. But 2025 has made something else clear: you don’t need a breach to suffer breach-level damage. Sometimes, data leaks without…
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North Korean Hackers Exploit NPM Packages to Steal Cryptocurrency and Sensitive Data
Veracode Threat Research has uncovered a sophisticated North Korean cryptocurrency theft operation that continues to evolve, building on campaigns previously reported in February and June 2024. This latest iteration involves twelve malicious NPM packages, including cloud-binary, json-cookie-csv, cloudmedia, and nodemailer-enhancer, which were flagged by automated monitoring systems and subsequently removed from the NPM registry. The…
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New Android Malware Poses as SBI Card and Axis Bank Apps to Steal Financial Data
McAfee’s Mobile Research Team has identified a sophisticated Android malware campaign primarily aimed at Hindi-speaking users in India, masquerading as legitimate financial applications from institutions like SBI Card, Axis Bank, and IndusInd Bank. This operation distributes malicious APKs through dynamically created phishing websites that mimic official banking portals, leveraging real assets such as images and…