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In Brief More than 40 percent of surveyed IT security professionals say they've been told to keep network breaches under wraps despite laws and common decency requiring disclosure. To further complicate matters, 40 percent of IT infosec folk polled said they were told to not report security incidents, and that climbs to 70.7 percent in the US, far higher than any other country.
The actor emerged on Telegram in late 2021 and has been associated with the RansomHouse ransomware operation and the data leak platform, KelvinSecurity, and the network access group Adrastea. ARES Group manages its own site with database leaks and a forum, which may fill the void left by the now defunct Breached forum.
The group's trophies included nearly 200GB of source code from Samsung, the source code for Nvidia's DLSS technology, and 250 internal projects from Microsoft. There may be vulnerabilities in the way software applications handle functions and data that could be present in the source code.
Microsoft unveils AI-powered Security Copilot analysis toolMicrosoft has unveiled Security Copilot, an AI-powered analysis tool that aims to simplify, augment and accelerate security operations professionals' work. Prioritizing data security amid workforce disruptionsIn this Help Net Security video, Chris Wey, President of Data Modernization at Rocket Software, discusses the risks organizations face and the steps they can take to mitigate disruption.
Fake extortionists are piggybacking on data breaches and ransomware incidents, threatening U.S. companies with publishing or selling allegedly stolen data unless they get paid. They have also impersonated some ransomware and data extortion gangs in emails and claimed to be the authors of the intrusion, stealing hundreds of gigabytes of important data.
Ambiguity in the Wi-Fi specification has left the wireless networking stacks in various operating systems vulnerable to several attacks that have the potential to expose network traffic. Wi-Fi frames contain various kinds of data related to network traffic and routing.
OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.OpenAI took ChatGPT offline to investigate an issue but did not provide details as to what caused the outage.
In a separate incident, another 766,846 burger-buyers whose data should have been destroyed after a retention period expired also saw their info leak, attracting a ₩10 million wrist slap. The company therefore coughed up info about 1,540 customers, and earned ₩40 million in fines.
Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped serving customers, while it tries to clean up an attack on its systems. Latitude said the attack on the vendor exposed credentials of its staff, which were used to log on to two other service providers it uses for matter such as identity verification.
A cancer patient whose nude medical photos and records were posted online after they were stolen by a ransomware gang, has sued her healthcare provider for allowing the "Preventable" and "Seriously damaging" leak. LVHN refused to pay the ransom, and earlier this month BlackCat started leaking patient info, including images of at least two breast cancer patients, naked from the waist up.