Security News

Bridgestone Americas confirms ransomware attack, LockBit leaks data
2022-03-11 21:28

A cyberattack on Bridgestone Americas, one of the largest manufacturers of tires in the world, has been claimed by the LockBit ransomware gang. No details about the incident emerged until today when the LockBit ransomware gang claimed the attack by adding Bridgestone Americas to the list of their victims.

Samsung Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak Galaxy Source Code
2022-03-08 09:51

Samsung on Monday confirmed a security breach that resulted in the exposure of internal company data, including the source code related to its Galaxy smartphones. "According to our initial analysis, the breach involves some source code relating to the operation of Galaxy devices, but does not include the personal information of our consumers or employees," the electronics giant told Bloomberg.

Samsung Confirms Lapsus$ Ransomware Hit, Source Code Leak
2022-03-07 19:28

Just days after leaking data it claims to have exfiltrated from chipmaker NVIDIA, ransomware group Lapsus$ is claiming another international company among its victims - this time releasing data purportedly stolen from Samsung Electronics. Lapsus$ had earlier announced on its Telegram channel that it had breached Samsung and offered a taste of what it had as proof, including biometric authentication information and source code from both Samsung and one of its suppliers, Qualcomm.

Adafruit discloses data leak from ex-employee's GitHub repo
2022-03-06 11:16

Adafruit has disclosed a data leak that occurred due to a publicly-viewable GitHub repository. On Friday, March 4th, Adafruit announced that a publicly-accessible GitHub repository contained a data set comprising information on some user accounts.

Hackers Who Broke Into NVIDIA's Network Leak DLSS Source Code Online
2022-03-05 22:47

American chipmaking company NVIDIA on Tuesday confirmed that its network was breached as a result of a cyber attack, enabling the perpetrators to gain access to sensitive data, including source code purportedly associated with its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology. "We have no evidence of ransomware being deployed on the NVIDIA environment or that this is related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict," the company said in a security notice.

The Week in Ransomware - March 4th 2022 - The Conti Leaks
2022-03-04 23:46

This week's biggest story is the massive data leak from the Conti ransomware operation, including over 160,000 internal messages between members and source code for the ransomware and TrickBot operation. A Ukrainian security researcher has leaked over 60,000 internal messages belonging to the Conti ransomware operation after the gang sided with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.

Hackers leak 190GB of alleged Samsung data, source code
2022-03-04 22:15

The Lapsus$ data extortion group leaked today a huge collection of confidential data they claim to be from Samsung Electronics, the South Korean giant consumer electronics company. In a note posted earlier today, the extortion gang teased about releasing Samsung data with a snapshot of C/C++ directives in Samsung software.

Quarter of a million lawyer disciplinary records leak
2022-02-28 21:53

Approximately 260,000 nonpublic disciplinary records stored on behalf of The State Bar of California were found to be exposed to the public and to have been republished on Judyrecords.com, a website that aggregates over 630 million public court records. Full case records were not disclosed, the State Bar said, and it's not yet clear how many attorney and witness names were revealed.

Hackers to NVIDIA: Remove mining cap or we leak hardware data
2022-02-28 19:13

The Lapsus$ data extortion group has released what they claim to be data stolen from the Nvidia GPU designer. The first round of messages from Lapsus$ included a leak of what the actor said were hashed passwords of all Nvidia employees and a claim that the company hacked back to encrypt their virtual machine with the data.

Conti ransomware gang leak: 60,000 messages online
2022-02-28 18:14

Activists have reportedly leaked the contents of internal chats from the Russia-affiliated Conti ransomware gang as the Ukraine war continues. Conti ransomware group previously put out a message siding with the Russian government.