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Downfall Vulnerability Affects Millions of Intel CPUs With Strong Data Leak Impact
2023-08-11 16:58

Downfall Vulnerability Affects Millions of Intel CPUs With Strong Data Leak Impact Learn technical details about this newly disclosed security vulnerability, as well as mitigation recommendations from the Google researcher who discovered it. Google researcher Daniel Moghimi discovered a new vulnerability affecting millions of Intel chip models.

Nearly every AMD CPU since 2017 vulnerable to Inception data-leak attacks
2023-08-09 22:52

AMD processor users, you have another data-leaking vulnerability to deal with: like Zenbleed, this latest hole can be to steal sensitive data from a running vulnerable machine. Inception utilizes a previously disclosed vulnerability alongside a novel kind of transient execution attack, which the researchers refer to as training in transient execution, to leak information from an operating system kernel at a rate of 39 bytes per second on vulnerable hardware.

Hawai'i Community College pays ransomware gang to prevent data leak
2023-07-28 13:45

The Hawaiʻi Community College has admitted that it paid a ransom to ransomware actors to prevent the leaking of stolen data of approximately 28,000 people. On June 19th, 2023, the relatively new NoEscape ransomware gang listed UH on its extortion portal, threatening to publish 65 GB of stolen data in a week if a ransom was not paid.

ALPHV ransomware adds data leak API in new extortion strategy
2023-07-26 06:34

The ALPHV ransomware gang, also referred to as BlackCat, is trying to put more pressure on their victims to pay a ransom by providing an API for their leak site to increase visibility for their...

Week in review: VirusTotal data leak, Citrix NetScaler zero-day exploitation
2023-07-23 08:00

Citrix ADC zero-day exploitatation: CISA releases details about attack on CI organizationThe exploitation of the Citrix NetScaler ADC zero-day vulnerability was first spotted by a critical infrastructure organization, who reported it to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISOs under pressure: Protecting sensitive information in the age of high employee turnoverIn this Help Net Security interview, Charles Brooks, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs, talks about how zero trust principles, identity access management, and managed security services are crucial for effective cybersecurity, and how implementation of new technologies like AI, machine learning, and tracking tools can enhance supply chain security.

VirusTotal apologizes for data leak affecting 5,600 customers
2023-07-21 09:35

VirusTotal apologized on Friday for leaking the information of over 5,600 customers after an employee mistakenly uploaded a CSV file containing their info to the platform last month. The data leak impacted only Premium account customers, with the uploaded file containing their names and corporate email addresses.

VirusTotal Data Leak Exposes Some Registered Customers' Details
2023-07-18 11:34

Data associated with a subset of registered customers of VirusTotal, including their names and email addresses, have leaked on the internet. The security incident, which comprises a database of 5,600 names in a 313KB file, was first disclosed by Der Spiegel and Der Standard yesterday.

Nickelodeon probes claims of massive data leak as SpongeBob fans rejoice
2023-07-06 22:45

TV network's attorneys 'on a DMCA rampage' ... are you sure you're ready, kids? Nickelodeon says it is probing claims that "decades old" material was stolen from it and leaked online. This follows...

Japan's digital ID card gets emergency review amid data leaks
2023-06-22 04:45

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida has ordered an emergency review of the nation's ID Cards, amid revelations of glitches and data leaks that threaten the government's digital services push. Japanese media reports that people with similar names are receiving cards intended for other people, while some recipients found the card links to records describing someone else.

Hackers warn University of Manchester students’ of imminent data leak
2023-06-20 20:17

The ransomware operation behind a cyberattack on the University of Manchester has begun to email students, warning that their data will soon be leaked after an extortion demand was not paid. The threat actors claim to have stolen 7 TB of data from the University of Manchester during a June 6th cyberattack in an email sent to students and shared with BleepingComputer.