National Student Clearinghouse data breach impacts 890 schools
U.S. educational nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse has disclosed a data breach affecting 890 schools using its services across the United...
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Air Canada discloses data breach of employee and ‘certain records’
Image Credit: John McArthur (Unsplash) Air Canada, the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, disclosed a cyber security incident...
New stealthy and modular Deadglyph malware used in govt attacks
A novel and sophisticated backdoor malware named 'Deadglyph' was seen used in a cyberespionage attack against a government agency in...
T-Mobile denies new data breach rumors, points to authorized retailer
T-Mobile has denied suffering another data breach following Thursday night reports that a threat actor leaked a large database allegedly...
Hotel hackers redirect guests to fake Booking.com to steal cards
Security researchers discovered a multi-step information stealing campaign where hackers breach the systems of hotels, booking sites, and travel agencies...
Government of Bermuda links cyberattack to Russian hackers
The Government of British overseas territory Bermuda has linked a cyberattack affecting all its departments' IT systems since Thursday to...
Crypto firm Nansen asks users to reset passwords after vendor breach
Ethereum blockchain analytics firm Nansen asks a subset of its users to reset passwords following a recent data breach at...
Recently patched Apple, Chrome zero-days exploited in spyware attacks
Security researchers with the Citizen Lab and Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed today that three zero-days patched by Apple...
Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist
Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a 29-year-old Nigerian national extradited from Canada to the United States last April, pleaded guilty to wire...
Dallas says Royal ransomware breached its network using stolen account
The City of Dallas, Texas, said this week that the Royal ransomware attack that forced it to shut down all...
GitHub passkeys generally available for passwordless sign-ins
GitHub has made passkeys generally available across the platform today to secure accounts against phishing and allow passwordless logins for...
Pizza Hut Australia warns 193,000 customers of a data breach
Pizza Hut Australia is sending data breach notifications to customers, warning that a cyberattack allowed hackers to access their personal...
‘Sandman’ hackers backdoor telcos with new LuaDream malware
A previously unknown threat actor dubbed 'Sandman' targets telecommunication service providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and South Asia,...
UK-US Confirm Agreement for Personal Data Transfers
The UK government has announced its decision to establish a data bridge with the US, enabling the free flow of...
Signal adds quantum-resistant encryption to its E2EE messaging protocol
Signal has announced that it upgraded its end-to-end communication protocol to use quantum-resistant encryption keys to protect users from future...
Expensive Investigations Drive Surging Data Breach Costs
The dreaded data breach is an outcome feared by companies of all sizes in today’s threat landscape, largely due to...
Free Download Manager releases script to check for Linux malware
The developers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have published a script to check if a Linux device was infected through...
P2PInfect botnet activity surges 600x with stealthier malware variants
The P2PInfect botnet worm is going through a period of highly elevated activity volumes starting in late August and then...
T-Mobile app glitch let users see other people’s account info
Today, T-Mobile customers said they could see other peoples' account and billing information after logging into the company's official mobile...
TransUnion denies it was hacked, links leaked data to 3rd party
Credit reporting firm TransUnion has denied claims of a security breach after a threat actor known as USDoD leaked data...
Fake WinRAR proof-of-concept exploit drops VenomRAT malware
A hacker is spreading a fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability on GitHub, attempting to infect...
#NITAM: Average Annual Cost of Insider Incidents Reaches $16.2m Per Organization
The average annual cost of insider risk incidents has risen to $16.2m per organization in 2023, up from $15.4m in...
BlackCat ransomware hits Azure Storage with Sphynx encryptor
Image: Midjourney The BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware gang now uses stolen Microsoft accounts and the recently spotted Sphynx encryptor to encrypt...
TikTok flooded by ‘Elon Musk’ cryptocurrency giveaway scams
TikTok is flooded by a surge of fake cryptocurrency giveaways posted to the video-sharing platform, with almost all of the...
