Tag: data
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Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service
Airportr is a service that allows passengers to have their luggage picked up, checked, and delivered to their destinations. As you might expect, it’s used by wealthy or important people. So if the company’s website is insecure, you’d be able to spy on lots of wealthy or important people. And maybe even steal their luggage.…
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You Are What You Eat: Why Your AI Security Tools Are Only as Strong as the Data You Feed Them
Just as triathletes know that peak performance requires more than expensive gear, cybersecurity teams are discovering that AI success depends less on the tools they deploy and more on the data that powers themThe junk food problem in cybersecurityImagine a triathlete who spares no expense on equipment—carbon fiber bikes, hydrodynamic wetsuits, precision GPS watches—but fuels…
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Exciting Developments in NHIDR
Are You Prepared to Tackle the Evolving Landscape of Cybersecurity? Data breaches, security threats, and compliance issues these are common narratives. Amid the cacophony of these significant challenges, is your organization prepared to combat evolving cybersecurity? If your answer is shrouded in doubt, it’s time to look at a holistic approach to secrets and… First…
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Staggering 800% Rise in Infostealer Credential Theft
Flashpoint data reveals an 800% increase in credentials stolen via infostealers in just six months First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/staggering-800-rise-infostealer/
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Summer: Why cybersecurity must be strengthened as vacations abound
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backup, control, corporate, credentials, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, encryption, exploit, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, office, password, resilience, risk, theft, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vpn, wifiGuillermo Fernandez, Sales Engineer for Southern Europe at WatchGuard Technologies. WatchGuard Technologies.Another important point is that, during the summer, attackers know that many IT and cybersecurity teams are operating with more limited resources or with staff on vacation. “They take advantage of this to launch phishing campaigns and other targeted attacks, aware that attention and vigilance often…
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Smart steps to keep your AI future-ready
In this Help Net Security interview, Rohan Sen, Principal, Cyber, Data, and Tech Risk, PwC US, discusses how organizations can design autonomous AI agents with strong … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/01/rohan-sen-pwc-us-ai-ecosystems-security/
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Ransomware Payment Bans: Prevention Strategy or Misguided Policy?
It’s no secret that ransomware is on the rise, as this escalation is echoed across numerous industry reports. The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), for instance, starkly illustrates this reality, revealing that ransomware (with or without encryption) was present in 44% of all breaches reviewed. This marks a substantial 37% increase from their…
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Sensitive data in text embeddings is recoverable
We ran an experiment using Morris et. al’s Vec2Text model, to demonstrate the privacy risk of text embeddings with sensitive data. As we’ll show, a large percentage of sensitive data can be recovered from just their text embeddings, posing a significant privacy risk and demonstrating the need to use a tool like Tonic Textual to…
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How bright are AI agents? Not very, recent reports suggest
CSOs should ‘skip the fluff’: Meghu’s advice to CSOs: Stop reading the marketing and betting too much of your business on AI/LLM technology as it exists today. Start small and always have a human operator to guide it.”If you skip the fluff and get to the practical application, we have a new technology that could…
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HHS Data Plan Aims to ‘Make Health Technology Great Again’
Voluntary Effort Calls for Standards, Empowering Patients, But What About Privacy?. The Trump administration launched an initiative to improve patient data interoperability, exchange and accessibility throughout the healthcare ecosystem. The effort asks tech firms, healthcare providers and insurers to voluntarily comply with standards and data sharing criteria. Sounds like déjà vu? First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Breach Roundup: Did China Have a Sneak Peek Into ToolShell?
Also: ToolShell Hits South Africa, Most Americans Are Online Fraud Victims. This week: Did China sneak a peek into ToolShell? ToolShell hacking in South Africa, Cisco flaws, an Arizona woman sentenced for aiding North Korea. Most Americans scammed online, a NASCAR data breach and a claimed data leak at France’s Naval Group. Orange telecom disrupted.…
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SafePay Claims Ingram Micro Breach, Sets Ransom Deadline
The ransomware gang claims to have stolen 3.5TB of data, and told the technology distributor to pay up or suffer a data breach. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/safepay-ingram-micro-breach-ransom-deadline
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Unlocking secure data utility: the Tonic.ai and Databricks partnership and integration
Announcing a strategic partnership between Tonic.ai and Databricks: Tonic’s innovative approach to data synthesis is now seamlessly integrated with Databricks, offering a joint solution that is both powerful and privacy-enhancing. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/unlocking-secure-data-utility-the-tonic-ai-and-databricks-partnership-and-integration/
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Ingram Micro Partners ‘Concerned’ About Claimed SafePay Data Theft
Solution providers tell CRN they fear their own company’s or their customers’ data could be made public in the wake of reports that the Safepay ransomware organization has stolen 3.5 terabytes of Ingram Micro data. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/ingram-micro-partners-concerned-about-claimed-safepay-data-theft
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Unit 42 Launches Attribution Framework to Classify Threat Actors by Behavior and Activity
Unit 42, the threat research division of Palo Alto Networks, has unveiled its Attribution Framework, designed to transform the traditionally subjective process of threat actor attribution into a structured, evidence-based science. Drawing on the foundational Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, this framework integrates the Admiralty System to assign reliability and credibility scores to evidentiary data,…
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Google is experimenting with machine learning-powered age-estimation tech in the US
Google will use machine learning and user data to estimate age of users in the U.S. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/google-is-experimenting-with-machine-learning-powered-age-estimation-tech-in-the-u-s/
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Ingram Micro threatened with post-ransomware data leak
Group that attacked distributor indicate they have terabytes of data that was stolen from the channel player First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366628299/Ingram-Micro-threatened-with-post-ransomware-data-leak
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Ransomware up 179%, credential theft up 800%: 2025’s cyber onslaught intensifies
Exploits multiply as defenders play catch-up: Vulnerability disclosure rose by 246%, and publicly available exploits increased by 179%, with over 20000 vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 202535% of which already have exploit code.A backlog of 42000 vulnerabilities awaiting NVD analysis and delays in CVE enrichment leave organizations blind to many critical flaws, the…
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Mehr Backup-Kontrolle mit integrierten Immutable- und Datenresilienz-Funktionen
Smarte Ransomware-Abwehr: Neue integrierte Unveränderbarkeit und Data-Resilience-Funktionen von Arcserve bieten mehr Backup-Kontrolle sowohl in der Cloud als auch onpremises. Arcserve-Unified-Data-Protection (UDP) 10.2 und die neuen Funktionen des Arcserve-Cyber-Resilient-Storage helfen Organisationen jeder Größe, die Kontrolle über unveränderbaren Backup-Speicher sowohl in der Cloud als auch vor Ort zu erlangen. Die Softwarelösungen bieten eine integrierte Kontrolle des Immutable…
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Researchers Link New SS7 Encoding Attack to Surveillance Vendor Activity
Researchers identify a new SS7 encoding attack used by a surveillance vendor to bypass security and access mobile subscriber data without detection. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/researchers-ss7-encoding-attack-surveillance-vendor/
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Low-Code Tools in Microsoft Azure Allowed Unprivileged Access
Using the API Connections for Azure Logic Apps, a security researcher found unauthenticated users could access sensitive data of other customers. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/low-code-tools-azure-allowed-unprivileged-access
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Cyberkriminelle setzen Ingram Micro Ultimatum
Tags: attack, breach, cyberattack, data, group, intelligence, leak, lockbit, ransomware, service, technology, threatRansomware-Gangster erpressen Ingram Micro.Anfang Juli 2025 wurde bekannt, dass der IT-Dienstleister Ingram Micro von einer Ransomware-Attacke betroffen ist. Diese zog auch einen mehrtägigen Ausfall der IT-Systeme nach sich. Inzwischen laufen die Systeme zwar größtenteils wieder, trotzdem könnte der größte Schaden noch bevorstehen.Denn inzwischen hat sich die Ransomware-Bande Safepay zu dem Angriff bekannt und Ingram Micro…
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Google is experimenting with machine-learning powered age estimation tech in the U.S.
Google will use machine learning and user data to estimate age of users in the U.S. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/google-is-experimenting-with-machine-learning-powered-age-estimation-tech-in-the-u-s/
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Partnerschaft mit Databricks stärkt das KI-gestützte SOC von Arctic Wolf
Arctic Wolf, ein weltweit führender Anbieter von Security-Operations-Lösungen, hat die Partnerschaft mit Databricks bekannt gegeben. Die neue Allianz mit dem Daten- und KI-Unternehmen wird das schnelle Wachstum der weiter vorantreiben. Durch die Integration der Databricks-Data-Intelligence-Platform in die Datenpipeline der Aurora-Plattform verbessert Arctic Wolf seine Fähigkeit, riesige Mengen an sicherheitsrelevanten Telemetriedaten in […] First seen on…
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Browser Extensions Can Exploit ChatGPT, Gemini in ‘Man in the Prompt’ Attack
Man in the Prompt attack shows how browser extensions can exploit ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI tools to steal data or inject hidden prompts. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/browser-extensions-exploit-chatgpt-gemini-man-in-the-prompt/
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Hacker Arrested for Data Theft Targeting Spanish Bank Customers
Spanish authorities have successfully apprehended a sophisticated cybercriminal who allegedly stole sensitive data from major financial institutions, educational organizations, and private companies across the country. The arrest represents a significant victory in the ongoing battle against cybercrime targeting Spanish citizens and businesses. A collaborative effort between the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) and Spain’s National Police…
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Chinese Silk Typhoon Hackers File Over 10 Patents for Advanced Intrusive Hacking Tools
A SentinelLABS investigation has revealed that businesses linked to the Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group Hafnium, also known as Silk Typhoon, have submitted more than ten patents for highly intrusive forensics and data exfiltration methods. These patents, registered by firms named in recent U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indictments, detail offensive capabilities, including encrypted…
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Alert Fatigue, Data Overload, and the Fall of Traditional SIEMs
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are stretched to their limits. Log volumes are surging, threat landscapes are growing more complex, and security teams are chronically understaffed. Analysts face a daily battle with alert noise, fragmented tools, and incomplete data visibility. At the same time, more vendors are phasing out their on-premises SIEM solutions, encouraging migration to…