Suspected Chinese hackers exploited a second SolarWinds hack to compromise the National Finance Center, which processes salaries for agencies including the FBI and the DHS.
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Alicia Hope has been a journalist for more than 5 years, reporting on technology, cyber security and data privacy news.
KELA found that the sale of network initial access methods in underground forums was worth millions of dollars, and brokers resorted to selling in private conversations.
Hacker created a Telegram bot to sell information belonging to 533 million Facebook users. Buyers could search users' mobile numbers using account IDs or vice versa.
Hackers breached UScellular’s retail CRM software and accessed customer data, including PIN and CPNI, and ported some subscribers’ mobile phone numbers to a different carrier.
DDoS extortion gangs returned and made new ransom demands as Bitcoin price surged. Four out five Radware customers who received the threats experienced intense DDoS attacks.
A10 Networks found an increase in DDoS attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic as attackers exploited new DDoS tools, 5G networks, and the increasing number of connected devices.
Hacking group ShinyHunters released Pixlr's 1.9 million stolen user credentials on a hacker forum. The data was accessed from an AWS S3 bucket while breaching sister site 123rf.
Documents related to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from European Medicines Agency's server were leaked online. EMA said participants' personal data was not exposed.
A Chinese startup leaked information of more than 214 million social media users obtained through data scraping, including private information not provided on social profiles.
Healthcare web application attacks increased by 51% since the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. Cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injections were the most detected by volume.
