Security News

Australian mining company discloses breach after BianLian leaks data
2024-06-04 22:10

Northern Minerals issued an announcement earlier today warning that it suffered a cybersecurity breach resulting in some of its stolen data being published on the dark web. The firm is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker 'NTU,' so it is legally obliged to disclose any data breach incidents promptly.

Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak
2024-06-04 02:25

Snowflake said if any customer data was taken from its servers, it may have been obtained by thieves who got hold of individual customers' account credentials - via targeted phishing, some other leak, or malware, for example - and not by a general compromise of Snowflake's security. On Friday, in its now-deleted write-up, Hudson Rock wrote that data thieves claimed to have signed into a Snowflake employee's ServiceNow work account and used this access to siphon databases belonging to as many as 400 Snowflake corporate clients.

Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'
2024-06-03 19:36

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Christie’s confirms breach after RansomHub threatens to leak data
2024-05-28 16:10

Yesterday, the RansomHub ransomware group added Christie's on its extortion page on the dark web, claiming it had breached the company and stole sensitive client data. A Christie's spokesperson confirmed to BleepingComputer that the company had suffered a data breach that impacted some clients.

UK data watchdog wants six figures from N Ireland cops after 2023 data leak
2024-05-23 08:30

Following a data leak that brought "Tangible fear of threat to life", the UK's data protection watchdog says it intends to fine the Police Service of Northern Ireland £750,000. The August exposure of cops' data affected 9,483 officers and was described by Commissioner Pete O'Doherty of the City of London Police as "The most significant data breach that has ever occurred in the history of UK policing" in an official review.

Bitbucket artifact files can leak plaintext authentication secrets
2024-05-21 19:05

Threat actors were found breaching AWS accounts using authentication secrets leaked as plaintext in Atlassian Bitbucket artifact objects. As developers may not be aware that these secrets are exposed in artifact files, the source code may be published to public repositories where threat actors can steal them.

FBI seize BreachForums hacking forum used to leak stolen data
2024-05-15 14:44

The FBI has seized the notorious BreachForums hacking forum used to leak and sell stolen corporate data to other cybercriminals. The seizure occurred on Wednesday morning, soon after the site was used last week to leak data stolen from a Europol law enforcement portal.

New Spectre-Style 'Pathfinder' Attack Targets Intel CPU, Leak Encryption Keys and Data
2024-05-08 14:17

Researchers have discovered two novel attack methods targeting high-performance Intel CPUs that could be exploited to stage a key recovery attack against the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)...

New attack leaks VPN traffic using rogue DHCP servers
2024-05-07 18:46

A new attack dubbed "TunnelVision" can route traffic outside a VPN's encryption tunnel, allowing attackers to snoop on unencrypted traffic while maintaining the appearance of a secure VPN connection. The attackers set up a rogue DHCP server that alters the routing tables so that all VPN traffic is sent straight to the local network or a malicious gateway, never entering the encrypted VPN tunnel.

BlackBasta claims Synlab attack, leaks some stolen documents
2024-05-06 11:03

The BlackBasta ransomware / cyber extortion gang is behind the recent cyber attack that resulted in the temporary shutdown of operations at Synlab Italia. The group claimed the attack on their leak site on Saturday and says they have exfiltrated approximately 1.5 TB of company and customer data, employees' personal documents, as well as the results of customers' medical tests.