The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain. The attack took place on May 23, 2023 and the Play ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the data breach.
In early June, Swiss police launched an…
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Change Healthcare breachThere is evidence that the ransomware group behind the Change Healthcare breach, which has caused chaos for hospitals and pharmacies attempting to handle prescriptions, may have received $22 million from UnitedHealth Group.Researchers studying security issues discovered a pos…
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has published its annual report for 2023, which reveals that the number of cybercrime complaints received by the agency increased by nearly 10% compared to the previous year. Cybercrime victims in the United States filed more than 880,000 complaints wi…
Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for two high-severity vulnerabilities in Secure Client, the enterprise VPN application that also incorporates security and monitoring capabilities. The first issue, tracked as CVE-2024-20337, impacts the Linux, macOS, and Windows versions of Secure Client and cou…
In a recent development, American Express has issued a warning to its customers regarding a potential data breach originating from a third-party merchant processor. Although the breach did not directly involve American Express systems, the credit card data of several Card Members may have been compr…
Several internet forums are bombarded with headlines claiming that a “Mr Green Gaming user database has been leaked” as a serious security breach threatens the online gaming community. Significant concerns about online security and privacy have been raised due to the incident, which resulted in the…
Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company is informing roughly 28,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in a data breach at third-party services provider Infosys McCamish System (IMS). The data breach, Fidelity says, was the result of a cyberattack on IMS’ systems, which…
The nation-state group compromised the website of a Tibetan festival and a software application to target user systems in Asia.
The fallout from the devastating hacker attack on IT provider Xplain continues as the Swiss National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) publishes a detailed report on the leaked data. The report reveals both the scope of the breach and the complex challenges faced by authorities in analyzing the massive t…
In a recent eye-opening report from cybersecurity experts at Perception Point, a major spike in sneaky online attacks has been uncovered. These attacks, called Business Email Compromise (BEC), zoomed up by a whopping 1,760% in 2023. The bad actors behind these attacks are using fancy tech called gen…
Pet retail giant PetSmart is warning some customers their passwords were reset due to an ongoing credential stuffing attack attempting to breach accounts. […]
A Japanese ministry blames a shared Active Directory between merged tech companies Line and South Korea’s Naver for a massive data breach last November.
Hackers are conducting widescale attacks on WordPress sites to inject scripts that force visitors’ browsers to bruteforce passwords for other sites. […]