Tag: data
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LexisNexis says hackers accessed legacy data in contained breach
The breach emerged this week when a threat actor claimed they stole 2 GB worth of information from the company that included millions of records. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/lexisnexis-says-hackers-accessed-legacy-data
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Amazon Says Drone Strikes Disrupted Middle East Data Centers
Iranian Cyberespionage Group MuddyWater Goes Dark. Physical effects rather than cyber strikes are triggering Middle Eastern connectivity problems during day four of a sustained U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. Iran is responding with drone and missile attacks targeting U.S. military as well as British bases in Bahrain, Cyprus. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Identity Security Blind Spots Fuel Modern Attacks
New data shows identity-related incidents are rising as cloud complexity and AI-driven automation outpace governance and visibility. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/identity-security-blind-spots-fuel-modern-attacks/
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Fake Tech Support Spam Deploys Customized Havoc C2 Across Organizations
Threat hunters have called attention to a new campaign as part of which bad actors masqueraded as fake IT support to deliver the Havoc command-and-control (C2) framework as a precursor to data exfiltration or ransomware attack.The intrusions, identified by Huntress last month across five partner organizations, involved the threat actors using email spam as lures,…
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One Foothold, 25 Million Victims: The Risk Inside Modern Breaches
In last month’s reporting cycle, we saw one of the largest healthcare data breaches in U.S. history, ransomware groups tied to North Korea targeting hospitals, and firewall vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to create rogue administrative accounts almost instantly. Taken together, these incidents raise a more important question than who was hit. They force us to……
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NDSS 2025 Be Careful Of What You Embed: Demystifying OLE Vulnerabilities
Tags: conference, cve, data, detection, exploit, Internet, malicious, microsoft, network, office, remote-code-execution, risk, tool, vulnerability, windowsSession 14C: Vulnerability Detection Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yunpeng Tian (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Feng Dong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Haoyi Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Meng Xu (University of Waterloo), Zhiniang Peng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Sangfor Technologies Inc.), Zesen Ye (Sangfor Technologies Inc.), Shenghui Li…
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AI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, governance, identity, infrastructure, risk, saas, skills, software, strategy, theft, threat, toolAI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 03/03/2026 – 15:00 Over the past year, I’ve watched AI move to operational reality across nearly every industry we work with. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will transform business. It already has. Cybersecurity Todd Moore –…
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Oracle EBS 2025 campaign impacts Madison Square Garden, sensitive data leaked
Madison Square Garden confirmed a data breach tied to the 2025 Oracle E-Business Suite hacking campaign. Madison Square Garden (MSG) has confirmed it was affected by a data breach linked to the 2025 cybercrime campaign targeting Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS) customers. Madison Square Garden (MSG) is a world-famous multi-purpose indoor arena located in New York…
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LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files
American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-as-hackers-leak-stolen-files/
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Tonic Structural vs Informatica: Which is better for Test Data Management?
Tags: dataWhen it comes to test data management and de-identification, how do Informatica and Tonic Structural compare? Explore the value of a modern, on-premises solution. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/tonic-structural-vs-informatica-which-is-better-for-test-data-management/
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Fig Security emerges from stealth with $38M to help security teams deal with change
Fig traces data flows in the security stack and then alerts security teams when changes at any point affect detection or response capabilities. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/fig-security-emerges-from-stealth-with-38m-to-help-security-teams-deal-with-change/
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Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better
Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/turns_out_most_cybercriminals_are/
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Iranian drone strikes hit Amazon data centers in Gulf, disrupting cloud services
Iranian drone strikes hit three Amazon data centre facilities in the UAE and Bahrain this week, disrupting cloud services across parts of the Middle East as regional tensions escalate. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/iran-drone-strikes-hit-amazon-data-centers-gulf
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Quantum-Resistant Data Diode Secures Sensitive Data on Edge Devices, Critical Systems
Forward Edge-AI’s new Isidore Quantum is a compact, low-power hardware device designed to defend sensitive operational technology endpoints against future quantum attacks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/quantum-resistant-data-diode-secures-sensitive-data-on-edge-devices-critical-systems
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AWS Data Centers Hit: Drone Strikes Cripple Cloud
AWS says drone strikes damaged data center facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting and degrading dozens of cloud services across the Middle East. The post AWS Data Centers Hit: Drone Strikes Cripple Cloud appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-aws-drone-strikes-uae-bahrain-data-centers/
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Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East
Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-drone-strikes-damaged-aws-data-centers-in-middle-east/
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AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter – Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged
The Rise of MCPs in the EnterpriseThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automate end-to-end business workflows across the enterprise. This is…
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Star Citizen game dev discloses breach affecting user data
Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), the game developer behind Star Citizen and Squadron 42, says attackers breached systems containing some users’ personal information in January. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/star-citizen-game-dev-discloses-breach-affecting-user-data/
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UH Cancer Center data breach affects nearly 1.2 million people
The University of Hawaii confirmed that a ransomware gang stole the data of nearly 1.2 million individuals in August 2025 after breaching its Cancer Center’s Epidemiology Division. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-hawaii-cancer-center-ransomware-attack-affects-nearly-12-million-people/
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Why Every Enterprise Needs a Strong API Security Strategy?
Modern enterprises are rapidly shifting toward API-centric architectures, leveraging APIs to connect internal systems, external partners, and digital services. With 74% of organizations adopting API-first development models, APIs now drive critical business logic and data exchanges at scale. However, this API proliferation also dramatically increases the attack surface, exposing sensitive data and business processes to……
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7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, group, incident response, intelligence, jobs, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability2. Emerging technologies: New technologies, particularly AI, are contributing to a cyber landscape that’s evolving so quickly it’s hard for even highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to pace, says Dan Lohrmann, CISO at enterprise strategy and consulting firm Presidio.AI-driven threats keep moving the target, allowing cybercriminals to attack with unprecedented levels of speed and agility, Lohrmann…
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Google Confirms CVE-2026-21385 in Qualcomm Android Component Exploited
Google on Monday disclosed that a high-severity security flaw impacting an open-source Qualcomm component used in Android devices has been exploited in the wild.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21385 (CVSS score: 7.8), a buffer over-read in the Graphics component.”Memory corruption when adding user-supplied data without checking available buffer space,” Qualcomm said in an advisory, First…
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Malvertising Campaign Spreads AMOS ‘malext’ macOS Infostealer via Fake Text-Sharing Ads
A large-scale malvertising operation targets macOS users with fake Google Ads leading to malicious text-sharing sites. These lures deliver the AMOS infostealer variant, dubbed >>malext,<< which steals sensitive data such as browser credentials and crypto wallets. Suspicious password prompts halted the compromise, revealing initial domains like optimize-storage-mac-os[.]medium[.]com, octopox[.]com, and vagturk[.]com."‹ Google Ads Library exposed over…
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AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up
Enterprise AI deployments have shifted from pilot programs to production systems handling customer data, executing business transactions, and integrating with core … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/enterprise-ai-agent-security-2026/
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Gamers furious as Brit studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach
Slow disclosure and odd reassurance that exposing names and contact details won’t be a problem isn’t going down well First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/brit_games_studio_cloud_imperium/
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Angular i18n Flaw Lets Hackers Execute Malicious Code via Critical XSS Vulnerability
A high-severity security flaw has been discovered in Angular, one of the most popular web application frameworks. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-27970, affects the framework’s internationalization (i18n) pipeline. If exploited, it allows attackers to execute malicious code within an application, posing a significant risk to user data and application integrity. The Core of the Vulnerability…
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Cyberattackers Exploit OpenVSX Aqua Trivy with Malicious AI Prompts to Hijack Coding Tools
Threat actors compromised the Aqua Trivy VS Code extension on OpenVSX by publishing malicious versions 1.8.12 and 1.8.13 on February 27-28, 2026. These versions injected prompts to hijack local AI coding tools for system reconnaissance and data exfiltration. Aqua Trivy is a popular open-source vulnerability scanner with a VS Code extension, hosted on OpenVSX under…
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Canada’s Data Sovereignty Question Answered with Dedicated Data Center
Tags: data<div cla If you support Canadian customers in regulated industries, you have likely run into the requirement early in the evaluation process: data must stay in Canada. It’s not a preference, and in many evaluations it determines whether a security project moves forward at all. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/canadas-data-sovereignty-question-answered-with-dedicated-data-center/