Hackers Behind Iranian Wiper Attacks Linked to Syrian Breaches Destructive attacks that targeted Iran’s transport ministry and national train system were coordinated by a threat actor dubbed Indra, who previously deployed wiper malware on the networks of multiple Syrian organizations. Last month, Iran’s railways and transport ministry were hit by a Read more…
Colonial Pipeline Reports Data Breach After May Ransomware Attack Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, is sending notification letters to individuals affected by the data breach resulting from the DarkSide ransomware attack that hit its network in May. The company says that it “recently learned” that Read more…
Hacker Claims to Steal Data of 100 Million T-mobile Customers T-Mobile is actively investigating a data breach after a threat actor claims to have hacked T-Mobile’s servers and stolen databases containing the personal data of approximately 100 million customers. The alleged data breach first surfaced on a hacking forum yesterday Read more…
Ford Bug Exposed Customer And Employee Records From Internal Systems A bug on Ford Motor Company’s website allowed for accessing sensitive systems and obtaining proprietary data, such as customer databases, employee records, internal tickets, etc. The data exposure stemmed from a misconfigured instance of Pega Infinity customer engagement system running on Ford’s servers. From data exfiltration to account Read more…
US Brokers Warned of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Impersonating FINRA The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) warns US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating FINRA officials and asking them to hand over sensitive information under the threat of penalties. FINRA is a non-profit organization supervised by the Securities and Read more…
Data Minimization; Why Bigger is Not Always Better An interesting position was previously divulged by the Federal Trade Commissioner of the United States when it comes to data collection. Rebbecca Slaughter proposed to ditch the outdated notice-and consent model to govern questions surrounding personal data. For her, the focus should Read more…
Facebook Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption For Messenger Calls Facebook has announced the rollout of end-to-end encrypted Messenger voice and video calls five years after making it available in one-on-one text chats. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is used by most popular communication and collaboration platforms, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams (on 1:1 VoIP Read more…
Emails From Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs For Sale on Data-trading Forum The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declined to comment about the authenticity of email files allegedly stolen from its network and offered for sale on a data-trading forum. The cache supposedly consists of 1.6 million emails containing Read more…
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