Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach. The press release published by the agency states that its information systems are not […]
Category: Cyber Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro.
The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated with 11 different accounts, according to G DATA. The repositories in question have since been taken down by the Microsoft-owned subsidiary.
“The repositories look…
A threat actor has unveiled “Hell Paradise,” an online platform offering access to vulnerable government websites and associated data, organized by country. The actor has categorized vulnerabilities and data by country, with an initial listing of 49 nations. Currently, there are over 1000 vulnerable…
A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution.
Dubbed GhostRace (CVE-2024-2193), it is a variation of the transient execution CPU vulnerability known as Spectre v1 (CVE-2017-5753). The approach combines speculative execution and race conditions.
“All the common synchronization primitives implemented…
Following a cyberattack on the largest health insurer in the United States last month, health care providers are still scrambling as insurance payments and prescription orders continue to be disrupted, costing physicians an estimated $100 million each day. According to the American Medical Asso…
A threat actor has purportedly disclosed the database of the Faculty of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of the National University of Cordoba, Argentina (UNC). According to the claims made by the threat actor, over 8,840 assorted personal records belonging to both teachers and students have be…
Recent research has surfaced serious security vulnerabilities within ChatGPT plugins, raising concerns about potential data breaches and account takeovers. These flaws could allow attackers to gain control of organisational accounts on third-party platforms and access sensitive user data, incl…
R00TK1T, a hacking group, has released a statement challenging the Malaysian government’s assertion that the PADU system remains uncompromised. The group has substantiated its claim with a series of screenshots and access credentials obtained from the system’s users. In a bold move to underscore the…
Restoro and Reimage agree to a $26 million settlement after selling fake antivirus and tech services to undercover FTC agents.
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Recent data breach at unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) could impact 43 million people.
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A threat actor has purportedly put up for sale access to the backoffice/admin panel of a leading Spanish cryptocurrency exchange. According to the actor, this access grants entry to the largest crypto exchange platform in Spain. Allegedly, this access enables users to look up sensitive information s…
In a recent cyber incident, the Handala team has purportedly infiltrated the servers of Viber Messenger, a popular messaging platform. According to their claims, the group successfully extracted a comprehensive array of sensitive data and the source code of Viber Messenger. The volume of data compro…
A purported threat actor has purportedly disclosed the database of Banregio Grupo Financiero, a financial group in Mexico, with a size of 340MB and file types including doc, xlsx, csv, sql, and html. According to the actor, access to the control panel was gained due to system malfunctions and errors…
The ransomware attack that hit the systems of Nissan Oceania in December 2023 impacted roughly 100,000 individuals. Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident. Nissan immediately notified the Australian Cyber Security…
BotGuard OU raises $13 million in Series A funding to help hosting providers filter traffic and protect infrastructures.
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