A third-party data breach has exposed the personal data of UK’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers and staff. Company that produces GMP’s staff ID cards was affected by a ransomware attack.
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Airbus has confirmed a data breach that exposed confidential business information via a partner airline’s compromised account. Threat actors compromised a Turkish Airlines employee account using the Redline info-stealer malware in August 2023.
Facebook Messenger phishing campaign targeted millions of business accounts using fake and hijacked personal accounts to trick business owners into installing an infostealer that harvests passwords and cookies before locking them out.
Okta has warned about social engineering attacks by sophisticated actors targeting super administrators by tricking service desk staff into resetting multi-factor authentication for privileged users.
Johnson & Johnson’s IT service provider IBM has notified over 1 million Janssen CarePath customers of a data breach that leaked personal and medical information.
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.
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.
