A hacker is claiming to have stolen over one billion user records, but security researchers are not convinced that this came from a legitimate TikTok hack or that account takeovers were involved.
Plex media streaming platform issued password reset notices to millions of users after an August data breach exposed a database containing account information.
Only 55% of the organizations surveyed are carrying any cyber insurance at all. And of those that are insured, just under 20% have more than $600,000 in coverage; not enough to meet the usual ransomware payment, let alone the potential cleanup costs.
Lloyd's of London has told its global network of insurer groups that new or renewed cyber insurance coverage policies must exclude nation-state attacks as of March 31, 2023.
Montenegro is dealing with a brutal ongoing campaign of ransomware attacks that appears to be coming from criminal groups in Russia. Government agencies in Chile have also been hit by a new form of ransomware that targets Linux servers.
A new ePrivacy complaint from noyb alleges that advertising emails are sent to Gmail users without their consent, a violation of that directive.
The FBI warned about the prevalent use of proxies and configurations to mask and automate credential stuffing attacks. Threat actors extensively leveraged residential proxies instead of those connected to data centers to avoid triggering suspicious behavior monitors.
Cybersecurity researchers discovered over 80,000 Hikvision cameras exposed online without security fixes for an critical exploited vulnerability whose patch was released in September 2021.
The first CCPA enforcement action has just been handed down, resulting in $1.2 million in penalties and a mandatory compliance program for Sephora’s privacy violation.
The attack the food delivery company DoorDash appears to have been part of the ongoing "0ktapus" campaign, which first made news when it ensnared Twilio. Customers may have had contact information exposed along with order information and partial credit card information.
