The US Department of Treasury and the UK’s Foreign Office have sanctioned 11 Russian nationals for their role in Conti ransomware and TrickBot cybercrime gangs.
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The UK Met Police is on high alert after a massive data breach exposed the identities and photographs of officers, including undercover cops and counter-terrorism agents.
Forever 21 has confirmed a data breach that impacted over 500,000 current and former employees. The company has however assured victims that hackers have deleted the stolen personal information, which included Social Security Numbers.
Barracuda ESG zero-day attacks by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors compromised multiple U.S. state, local, and tribal government email servers. Over 200,000 private and government organizations worldwide depend on Barracuda email security gateway (ESG) appliances.
Account information of over 2.6 million Duolingo users was obtained via data scraping of an exposed API, and recently leaked on an underground hacking forum.
Japanese watchmaker Seiko has suffered a data breach that leaked sensitive information, with the Russian ransomware gang BlackCat/AlphaV claiming responsibility for the attack.
Tesla has disclosed that the data breach impacting over 75,000 employees was an inside job. The electric automaker said two employees copied and shared confidential data with the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
Real estate professionals lost access to property data and resorted to manual systems after a Californian multiple listing service (MLS) Rapattoni Corporation suffered a cyber attack.
The US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has published a comprehensive analysis of the Lapsus$ hacker group’s cyber extortion activities. The report highlighted simple but effective tactics the Lapsus$ hackers used to compromise organizations and the existing security gaps enabling them.
Threat actors accessed personal and protected health information from the Colorado Department of Health Care after third-party vendor IBM suffered a MOVEit data breach.
