Russian hackers stole 50 million passwords from popular online services such as PayPal, Amazon, Roblox, Steam and crypto wallets by deploying infostealer malware on users’ devices.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
Hot Topic has suffered a data breach affecting 57 million retail customers stemming from a compromised cloud account without multi-factor authentication (MFA).
The Pegasus spyware sold by NSO Group, supposed to only be available to law enforcement and intelligence agencies for legitimate and legal uses, appears to be widely available to repressive governments with little oversight.
Human capital management (HCM) software giant Workday says that a social engineering data breach on a third-party CRM system has impacted its clients’ business information.
A security breach at France’s national bank registry has compromised the personal information of 1.2 million people, after a threat actor downloaded a database containing the information of all bank accounts in the country.
As prices of cryptocurrencies continue to skyrocket, fraudulent cryptocurrency scams are on the rise. Twitter cryptocurrency scams impersonating celebrities or influencers are so popular with cryptocurrency thieves and hackers simply because they are so easy to pull off on a daily basis.
ChatGPT will put information that is shared by users into its training model. It was reported that Samsung employees have fed it some source code and other sensitive data.
By mid-2023, crypto scams plummeted the most for any crypto-related crimes, while ransomware payments approach record levels from "big game hunting" and spray and pray attacks.
Hardware vulnerabilities are almost always serious in nature, and you can’t simply patch hardware. Why is hardware security often overlooked, and how will the implementation of a hardware bill of materials (HBOM) enable you to better secure and maintain electronic products?
Media streaming company Roku has disclosed a data breach that affected over 15,000 people and allowed fraudsters to purchase subscriptions using stored credit cards.










