Tag: data
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State AG Sues Change Healthcare in 2024 Ransomware Attack
Iowa Seeking Civil Monetary Fines, Damages for Alleged Violations. Iowa’s state attorney general is seeking financial damages, civil penalties and improvements to UnitedHealth Group’s data security practices for alleged violations of state and federal laws and other claims involving the 2024 ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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97% of Enterprises Expect a Major AI Agent Security Incident Within the Year
Is Your Business Ready? The threat is no longer hypothetical. AI agents autonomous systems capable of planning, reasoning and acting across digital environments, are already operating inside enterprise systems. They’re retrieving data, triggering transactions, and interacting across services through legitimate credentials and approved workflows. According to new research from Arkose Labs, nearly every… Continued First…
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Gmail’s New Rename Feature Could Add Spam and Phishing to Your Inbox
As of March 31st, Google is allowing users to change their primary Gmail address username. Although a nice feature for those who created unfortunate names originally, it may also undermine spam and phishing blocking. The feature is intended to allow the user account to be changed while keeping the underlying account intact. The original name…
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Hasbro hit by cyberattack, investigates possible data breach
Hasbro suffers a cyberattack, disrupting some operations; the company is probing the scope and potential data compromise. Toy giant Hasbro reported a cyberattack on Wednesday that disrupted certain company operations. The firm is investigating the full extent of the incident, including whether any files or sensitive data were compromised, as it works to restore normal…
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Security Operations Platform
A security operations platform is designed to unify visibility, detection, investigation, and response across an organization’s entire IT environment. By integrating multiple security capabilities into a single platform, it enables security teams to monitor threats in real time, correlate data across systems, and respond quickly to incidents. This unified approach not only improves detection accuracy…
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Akira ransomware group can achieve initial access to data encryption in less than an hour
A new report from Halcyon finds that the group also puts more effort than usual into developing working decryptors, likely to incentivize businesses to pay up. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/akira-ransomware-initial-access-to-encryption-in-hours/
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When Trusted Systems Become Attack Paths
A hospital in Chicago is still dealing with stolen patient data. A major U.S. medical manufacturer is restoring order processing, manufacturing, and shipments after a destructive attack. A Washington-based employee benefits administrator is notifying 2,697,540 people that their data may have been exposed. Put those stories together and the same fault lines keep showing up,……
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Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web
An exposed Amazon-hosted server allowed anyone to access reams of customer data without needing a password. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/canadian-money-transfer-app-duc-expose-drivers-licenses-passports-amazon-server/
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Hasbro Systems Nerfed by Data Breach; IT Recovery Underway
Transformers, Peppa Pig Toymaker Forecasts Delays, Says Product Shipping Continues. Toymaker Hasbro said its IT systems have been breached, leading to data being stolen and some operations being disrupted, and it warned that a full recovery may take weeks. The owner of such brands as Transformers, Peppa Pig and Monopoly said it’s still able to…
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Software supply chain hacks trigger wave of intrusions, data theft
After linking the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean hackers, Google researchers warned that >>hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets could potentially be … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/02/supply-chain-hacks-data-theft/
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How ‘Wikipedia of cyber’ helps SAP make sense of threat data
SAP runs enormous cloud environments for some of the world’s most heavily-regulated organisations, and in the hyperscale era, data security and compliance were becoming big challenges. It turned to cutting-edge agentic tools from Uptycs to cut through the noise First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366641057/How-Wikipedia-of-cyber-helps-SAP-make-sense-of-threat-data
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Software supply chain hacks trigger wave of intrusions, data theft
After linking the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean hackers, Google researchers warned that >>hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets could potentially be … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/02/supply-chain-hacks-data-theft/
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Standardize or Suffer: The JCHK Blueprint for MSSPs Defending SMB and SME Clients
Advanced persistent threats don’t discriminate by organization size, they discriminate by defense capability. Nation-state actors and their proxies invest months conducting reconnaissance, moving laterally through networks with surgical patience, and exfiltrating data long before any alert fires. The reality for small and mid-sized businesses and enterprises is particularly brutal: they carry the same exposure.. First…
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The agentification of Test Data Management is here. Meet the Structural Agent.
Tonic.ai announces the launch of the Structural Agent, an intelligent AI copilot that fuels AI-native software development by transforming how teams configure and provision anonymized test data. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/the-agentification-of-test-data-management-is-here-meet-the-structural-agent/
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Medtech giant Stryker fully operational after data-wiping attack
Stryker Corporation, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, says it’s fully operational three weeks after many of its systems were wiped out in a cyberattack claimed by the Iranian-linked Handala hacktivist group. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/medtech-giant-stryker-fully-operational-after-data-wiping-attack/
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GitHub Used as Covert Channel in Multi-Stage Malware Campaign
LNK files use GitHub C2, embedded decoders and PowerShell for persistence and data exfiltration First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/github-covert-multi-stage-malware/
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EvilTokens abuses Microsoft device code flow for account takeovers
A phishing package with post-compromise focus: Beyond the initial access vector, EvilTokens is structured as a full-service phishing platform. The kit provides affiliates with ready-to-use lures, infrastructure, and automation tools designed to carry out both the phishing phase and post-compromise activity.The lures used in the campaign include fake SharePoint document notifications, DocuSign requests, and account…
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OT Cyber Resilience: Strategic Data Protection for IEC 62443 and NIS2 Compliance
Learn how to protect OT systems, ICS, and SCADA infrastructure from ransomware with backup strategies built for legacy, air-gapped industrial environments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/ot-cyber-resilience-strategic-data-protection-for-iec-62443-and-nis2-compliance/
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Iranian Hacker Group Handal Claims Breach of Israeli Defense Firm
Tags: breach, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, group, hacker, international, iran, military, threatThe international cybersecurity community was alerted to a major data breach involving Israeli military infrastructure. Handala, a recognized Iranian nation-state threat actor, claims to have successfully breached PSK Wind Technologies, a key Israeli defense contractor. The incident has resulted in the public release of highly classified military data, representing a significant compromise of sensitive operational…
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The State of Trusted Open Source Report
In December 2025, we shared the first-ever The State of Trusted Open Source report, featuring insights from our product data and customer base on open source consumption across our catalog of container image projects, versions, images, language libraries, and builds. These insights shed light on what teams pull, deploy, and maintain day to day, alongside…
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Inside the Talos 2025 Year in Review: A discussion on what the data means for defenders
A conversation between Cisco Talos and Cisco Security leaders on the 2025 threat landscape, from identity attacks and legacy vulnerabilities to AI-driven threats, and what defenders should prioritize now. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/inside-the-talos-2025-year-in-review-a-discussion-on-what-the-data-means-for-defenders/
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FBI Warns Chinese Mobile Apps Could Expose User Data to Cyberattacks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a public warning about potential data security risks associated with foreign-developed mobile applications, particularly those developed by companies based in China. While the advisory focuses on apps widely used in the United States, the risks highlighted are global and relevant to users worldwide. Apps operating within China’s…
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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open source LiteLLM project
The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company’s systems. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-open-source-litellm-project/
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Google’s Vertex AI Is Over-Privileged. That’s a Problem
Palo Alto Networks researchers show how attackers could exploit AI agents on Google’s Vertex AI to steal data and break into restricted cloud infrastructure. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/googles-vertex-ai-over-privilege-problem
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AI Data Quality Risk at the Schema Layer – Liquibase Secure
64% of AI risk lives at the schema layer, not the model. Learn why database governance matters more than model governance for reliable AI systems. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/ai-data-quality-risk-at-the-schema-layer-liquibase-secure/
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Microsoft Teams to Improve Privacy With EXIF Data Removal Feature
Microsoft is rolling out a wave of privacy and security updates for Microsoft Teams, headlining with a critical new feature that automatically removes EXIF metadata from shared images. These upcoming changes are designed to protect user privacy by default, streamline biometric data management, and enforce modern browser security standards across the platform. For cybersecurity professionals…
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A Taxonomy of Cognitive Security
Last week, I listened to a fascinating talk by K. Melton on cognitive security, cognitive hacking, and reality pentesting. The slides from the talk are here, but”, even better”, Menton has a long essay laying out the basic concepts and ideas. The whole thing is important and well worth reading, and I hesitate to excerpt.…
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Cisco Faces Alleged Data Leak as ShinyHunters Claims Responsibility
Cisco is actively dealing with a major cybersecurity incident after threat actors breached its internal development networks. The notorious hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the attack, alleging they stole sensitive source code and data affecting Cisco, Salesforce, Aura, and various AWS storage buckets. The breach stems from a recent supply chain attack involving…