515,000 People Affected By Red Cross Data Breach
Over 515,000 people are affected by the Red Cross data breach incident. The ICRC has no information on who carried out the attack.
Attacks & Breaches
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Hackers Using Azure and AWS to Spread RATs
Researchers from Cisco Talos Intelligence found that hackers are using public cloud providers like Azure and AWS to spread RATs.
Suspected Hacker Attack on Greek Parliament
A temporary shutdown of the legislature's web mail followed the hack of 60 Greek Parliament emails on Friday.
IT Company Fined for Massive Data Breach of Voters Information
The company had failed to notify the personal data breach to the data protection commissioner within the deadline stipulated by law. Nor had it informed victims of the breach that they had been affected.
FBI Warning on Google Voice Authentication Scams
FBI has issued a warning regarding a new scam utilizing Google voice authentication.The scam targets people who share their numbers publicly.
Indian Hackers Scored an Embarrassing Own Goal
Indian hackers infected themselves with their own RAT. Making it possible for security researchers to gather information on their methods.
Data Breach Statistics for 2021
The top five countries with the largest number of data breaches account for more than half of all breaches of 2021.
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach
After a previous breach in August where nearly 50 million customer data were leaked, T-Mobile suffered another data breach, this time less severe. It has affected only a small subset of customers.
Copies of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Infected with Malware
The long awaited Marvel movie "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is out. People are trying to download an illegal copy are up for an unpleasant surprise.
Popular Game Series “Just Dance” Targeted by Attackers
Ubisoft Entertainment a French video game company recently announced that they have identified an intrusion in their IT Infrastructure targeting Just Dance.
NCA Shares 585 Million Compromised Passwords With “Have I Been Pwned”
The National Crime Agency of United Kingdom (NCA) shared a collection of more than 585 million compromised passwords that were found during an investigation with the infamous Have I Been Pwned website.
Hacking Group Leaked Confidential UK Police Data
Russian hacking group "Clop" leaked confidential information held by the UK police onto the dark web. The data were stolen from Dacoll, an IT company which handles the Police National Computer.
Threat Actors Impersonating Pfizer
Phishing campaigns that use COVID-19 as a hook are still on the rise. Hackers are increasingly using vaccine-related emails in their targeted spear-phishing attacks.
Audio Tech Giant Exposed Thousands of Customers’ Data
The data may be old, but it's still valuable to criminals and hackers, and the leak itself could have been much worse. It represents a massive oversight by a huge, multinational, well-known company.
Why Do Data Breaches Happen
We have gotten used to seeing news every day of sensitive data being exposed to unauthorized parties, but do you know why do data breaches happen?
Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked
On Sunday, AscendEX announced via Twitter that it had identified a number of unauthorized transactions from one of its hot wallets on Saturday.
HR Management Platform Hit by Ransomware
HR management platform Kronos has been hit by a ransomware attack and information from its customers may have been accessed.
Massive Internet Scans and Log4j Exploit Attempts
Many organizations have noticed a surge in internet scans to discover vulnerable systems and exploit attempts on them.