Data Breach

Accenture Confirms Hack After LockBit Ransomware Data Leak Threats Accenture, a global IT consultancy giant has allegedly been hit by a ransomware cyberattack from the LockBit ransomware gang. Accenture is an IT giant known to serve a wide range of industries including automobiles, banks, government, technology, energy, telecoms, and many Read more…

One million stolen credit cards leaked to promote carding market  A threat actor is promoting a new criminal carding marketplace by releasing one million credit cards stolen between 2018 and 2019 on hacking forums. Carding is the trafficking and use of stolen credit cards. These credit cards are stolen through point-of-sale malware, magecart Read more…

Ransomware attack hits Italy’s Lazio region, affects COVID-19 site The Lazio region in Italy has suffered a reported ransomware attack that has disabled the region’s IT systems, including the COVID-19 vaccination registration portal. Early Sunday morning, the Lazio region suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted every file in its data center and Read more…

Private Data Breach at Air India Air India announced on 15th May 2021 that due to a cybersecurity attack, personal data of the customers registeredbetween August 2011 to February 2021 was leaked and which included passenger names, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information, frequent flyer and credit Read more…

Estonia arrests hacker who stole 286K ID scans from govt database A Tallinn man was arrested a week ago in Estonia under suspicion that he has exploited a government photo transfer service vulnerability to download ID scans of 286,438 Estonians from the Identity Documents Database (KMAIS). The attacker was apprehended Read more…

Chipotle’s marketing account hacked to send phishing emails Hackers have compromised an email marketing account belonging to the Chipotle food chain and used it to send out phishing emails, luring recipients to malicious links. Most of the messages directed users to credential-harvesting sites impersonating services from a financial business and Read more…

Saudi Aramco data breach sees 1 TB stolen data for sale Attackers have stolen 1 TB of proprietary data belonging to Saudi Aramco and are offering it for sale on the darknet. The Saudi Arabian Oil Company, better known as Saudi Aramco, is one of the largest public petroleum and natural gas companies in Read more…

Comparis customers targeted by scammers after ransomware attack Leading Swiss price comparison platform Comparis has notified customers of a data breach following a ransomware attack that hit and took down its entire network last week. Comparis is one of the most popular Swiss websites with more than 80 million visits Read more…

Chinese hackers use new SolarWinds zero-day in targeted attacks China-based hackers known to target US defense and software companies are now targeting organizations using a vulnerability in the SolarWinds Serv-U FTP server. Today, SolarWinds released a security update for a zero-day vulnerability in Serv-U FTP servers that allow remote code execution when SSH Read more…

New BIOPASS malware live streams victim’s computer screen Hackers compromised gambling sites to deliver a new remote access trojan (RAT) called BIOPASS that enables watching the victim’s computer screen in real time by abusing popular live-streaming software. Apart from the unusual feature, which comes on top of the regular functions Read more…