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Leading U.S. commercial bank Truist confirmed its systems were breached in an October 2023 cyberattack after a threat actor posted some of the company's data for sale on a hacking forum. While BleepingComputer could not independently verify these claims, the data also allegedly contains bank transactions with names, account numbers, balances, and IVR funds transfer source code.
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Ascension, one of the largest U.S. healthcare systems, revealed that a May 2024 ransomware attack was caused by an employee who downloaded a malicious file onto a company device. Ascension says this was likely an "Honest mistake" as the employee thought they were downloading a legitimate file.
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The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached in January 2024. "The New York Times recently communicated to some of our contributors regarding an incident that resulted in the exposure of some of their personal information," a Times spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
The Toronto District School Board is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any personal information was exposed. TDSB is Canada's largest school board and the fourth largest in North America, responsible for the administration and management of 473 elementary, 110 secondary, and five adult education schools.
U.S. food chain giant Panera Bread is notifying employees of a data breach after unknown threat actors stole their sensitive personal information in a March ransomware attack. In breach notification letters filed with the Office of California's Attorney General, Panera said it detected what it describes as a "Security incident," took measures to contain the breach, hired external cybersecurity experts to investigate the incident, and notified law enforcement.
A proof-of-concept exploit for a critical Veeam Recovery Orchestrator authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29855 has been released, elevating the risk of being exploited in attacks. CVE-2024-29855, rated 9.0 as per CVSS v3.1, is an authentication bypass vulnerability impacting Veeam Recovery Orchestrator versions 7.0.0.337 and 7.1.0.205 and older.
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YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements. Currently, YouTube performs client-side ad injection, where JavaScript scripts and the video player on a user's device load and display ads.