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Water services giant Veolia North America hit by ransomware attack
2024-01-23 21:52

Veolia North America, a subsidiary of transnational conglomerate Veolia, disclosed a ransomware attack that impacted systems part of its Municipal Water division and disrupted its bill payment systems. The attack hasn't disrupted Veolia's water treatment operations or wastewater services.

Jason’s Deli says customer data exposed in credential stuffing attack
2024-01-23 16:44

Jason's Deli is warning of a data breach in notifications sent to customers of its online platform stating that their personal data was exposed in credential stuffing attacks.In a data breach notification sent to customers, Jason's Deli says hackers obtained credentials of member accounts at Jason's Deli from other sources and, on December 21, 2023, used them in a credential stuffing attack against the restaurant's website.

From Megabits to Terabits: Gcore Radar Warns of a New Era of DDoS Attacks
2024-01-23 11:33

As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore’s broad,...

~40,000 Attacks in 3 Days: Critical Confluence RCE Under Active Exploitation
2024-01-23 09:34

Malicious actors have begun to actively exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, within three days of public...

Atlassian Confluence Server RCE attacks underway from 600+ IPs
2024-01-22 23:37

More than 600 IP addresses are launching thousands of exploit attempts against CVE-2023-22527 - a critical bug in out-of-date versions of Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server - according to non-profit security org Shadowserver. The CVE scored a CVSS rating of 10 out of 10, and it affects Confluence Data Center and Server 8 versions released before December 5, 2023 and versions up to 8.4.5.

SEC confirms X account was hacked in SIM swapping attack
2024-01-22 23:04

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed today that its X account was hacked through a SIM-swapping attack on the cell phone number associated with the account. Today, the SEC has confirmed that a cell phone account associated with the X account suffered a SIM-swapping attack.

Apple fixes first zero-day bug exploited in attacks this year
2024-01-22 19:20

Apple released security updates to address this year's first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks that could impact iPhones, Macs, and Apple TVs. The zero-day fixed today is tracked as CVE-2024-23222 and is a WebKit confusion issue that attackers could exploit to gain code execution on targeted devices. "Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited," Apple said today.

MavenGate Attack Could Let Hackers Hijack Java and Android via Abandoned Libraries
2024-01-22 16:35

Several public and popular libraries abandoned but still used in Java and Android applications have been found susceptible to a new software supply chain attack method called MavenGate. "Access to...

Tietoevry ransomware attack halts Swedish organizations
2024-01-22 11:09

Finnish IT software and service company Tietoevry has suffered a ransomware attack that affected several customers of one of its datacenters in Sweden. "Tietoevry immediately isolated the affected platform, and the ransomware attack has not affected other parts of the company's infrastructure."

Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks
2024-01-22 03:40

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "notable increase" in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised...