Security News > 2024 > January
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays."We've identified a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service and we're performing a failover to remediate impact. Additional information can be found under TM710344 in the admin center," tweeted the official Microsoft account for updates on Microsoft365 service incidents.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka "Planeta", and wiped 2 petabytes of data. Planeta is a state research center using space satellite data and ground sources like radars and stations to provide information and accurate predictions about weather, climate, natural disasters, extreme phenomena, and volcanic monitoring.
Biotech and DNA-collection biz 23andMe, the one that blamed its own customers for the October mega-breach, just admitted it failed to detect any malicious activity for the entire five months attackers were breaking into user accounts. In a collection of data breach notifications filed with California's attorney general Rob Bonta, 23andMe revealed attackers were using credential stuffing techniques between April 29 and September 27, 2023.
On January 12, 2024, Microsoft discovered that Russian hackers breached its systems in November 2023 and stole email from their leadership, cybersecurity, and legal teams.Microsoft now explains that the threat actors used residential proxies and "Password spraying" brute-force attacks to target a small number of accounts, with one of these accounts being a "Legacy, non-production test tenant account."
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The first edition of Pwn2Own Automotive has ended with competitors earning $1,323,750 for hacking Tesla twice and demoing 49 zero-day bugs in multiple electric car systems between January 24 and January 26.After a zero-day vulnerability is exploited and reported to vendors during Pwn2Own, they have 90 days to release security patches before Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative discloses it publicly.
The Akira ransomware gang is claiming responsiblity for the "Cybersecurity incident" at British bath bomb merchant. Akira says it has stolen 110 GB of data from the UK-headquartered global cosmetics giant, which has more than 900 stores worldwide, allegedly including "a lot of personal documents" such as passport scans.
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