North Korea hackers breached South Korea’s Atomic Energy Research Institute using a VPN vulnerability. IssueMakersLab traced one IP address to state-backed Kimsuky.
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NATO officials warned that state-sponsored cyber attacks on member countries could invoke Article 5 that calls for a coordinated military response against aggressors.
Alibaba's web scraping data leak exposed over 1 billion user records leading to the imprisonment of the implicated software developer and his employer for three years.
Healthcare giant CVS exposed over a billion health records through a misconfigured cloud database leak, including visitor and session IDs, device information and multiple records for medications.
Report found that organizations faced cybersecurity risks while transitioning to the hybrid workplace because of the bad behaviors picked up by employees during remote working.
Investigation showed that scammers manually access 91% of compromised accounts within a week, 50% within 12 hours, and used them to send bulk credential phishing messages.
Hackers listed FIFA 21 and Frostbite engine source code and developer tools for sale on an underground hacking forum following the successful Electronic Arts data breach.
The DOJ elevated the priority of ransomware attacks, comparing them to terrorism and directing U.S. Attorneys to coordinate investigations through the ransomware task force.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that Chinese hackers breached three computers in the New York subway via Ivanti’s Pulse Connect Secure VPN critical vulnerabilities.
China-based game developer exposed personal information and transaction records of nearly 6 million Battle for the Galaxy players in an unsecured ElasticSearch data leak.
