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Kraft Heinz has confirmed that their systems are operating normally and that there is no evidence they were breached after an extortion group listed them on a data leak site. In a post to Snatch extortion group's data leak site dated August 16th, but not made visible until today, the threat actors claim that they breached Kraft Heinz.
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The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years. The report, appearing in The Guardian, claimed that the controversial complex was hacked by "Cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China," with the infection detected in 2015 but perhaps present before that year.
Threat actors from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector as a major revenue generation mechanism since at least 2017 to get around...
Amir Hossein Golshan, 25, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Los Angeles District Court and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution for crimes involving SIM swapping, merchant fraud, support fraud, account hacking, and cryptocurrency theft. Golshan pleaded guilty on July 19, 2023, for hijacking the Instagram account of a prominent social media influencer.
The Canadian government says two of its contractors have been hacked, exposing sensitive information belonging to an undisclosed number of government employees. These breaches occurred last month and impacted Brookfield Global Relocation Services and SIRVA Worldwide Relocation & Moving Services, both providers of relocation services to Canadian government employees.
They also sell miniature pencil sharpeners, palm-size kitchen utensils, scaled-down books and camping chairs so small they evoke the Stonehenge scene in "This Is Spinal Tap." Many of the minuscule objects aren't clearly advertised. But there is no doubt some online sellers deliberately trick customers into buying smaller and often cheaper-to-produce items, Witcher said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that ransomware threat actors are targeting casino servers and use legitimate system management tools to increase their permissions on the network. [...]
Okta says attackers who breached its customer support system last month gained access to files belonging to 134 customers, five of them later being targeted in session hijacking attacks with the help of stolen session tokens. "From September 28, 2023 to October 17, 2023, a threat actor gained unauthorized access to files inside Okta's customer support system associated with 134 Okta customers, or less than 1% of Okta customers," Okta revealed.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged SolarWinds with defrauding investors by allegedly concealing cybersecurity defense issues before a December 2020 linked to APT29, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service hacking division. The SEC claims SolarWinds failed to notify investors about cybersecurity risks and poor practices that its Chief Information Security Officer, Timothy G. Brown, knew about.