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Have attackers compromised Snowflake or just their customers' accounts and databases? Conflicting claims muddy the situation. "From an enterprise perspective, Snowflake is typically set up as a cloud-based data warehousing solution. Enterprises choose a cloud provider, and set up their Snowflake account within the chosen region. Data is ingested from various sources, transformed, and analyzed using SQL," Doron Karmi, Senior Cloud Security Researcher at Mitiga, told Help Net Security.
A threat actor claiming recent Santander and Ticketmaster breaches says they stole data after hacking into an employee's account at cloud storage company Snowflake. Snowflake disputes these claims, saying recent breaches were caused by poorly secured customer accounts.
More than 600,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers are estimated to have been bricked and taken offline following a destructive cyber attack staged by unidentified cyber actors, disrupting...
Operation Endgame, announced by Europol yesterday, led to the seizure of 100 servers used in multiple malware operations, including IcedID, Pikabot, Trickbot, Bumblebee, Smokeloader, and SystemBC. The law enforcement crackdown also involved four arrests, one in Armenia and three in Ukraine. Yesterday, the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany revealed the identities of eight cybercriminals of Russian descent, who are thought to have held central roles in the Smokeloader and Trickbot malware operations.
A threat actor known as ShinyHunters is claiming to be selling a massive trove of Santander Bank data, including information for 30 million customers, employees, and bank account data, two weeks after the bank reported a data breach. ShinyHunters is known for selling and leaking data from numerous companies over the years, including this week's alleged massive Ticketmaster data breach impacting 560 million people.
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Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology (OT) devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. "These repeated...
Personal information of current and former BBC employees has been exposed in a data breach that affected the broadcaster's in-house pension scheme."On the 21 May, the BBC's information security team alerted us to a data security incident, in which some files containing personal information of BBC Pension Scheme members records were copied from a cloud-based data storage service used by our administration team," the BBC Pension and Benefits Centre said.
Attackers have been exploiting CVE-2024-24919, a zero-day vulnerability in Check Point Security Gateways, to pinpoint and extract password hashes for local accounts, which they then used to move laterally in the target organizations' network. The existence and in-the-wild exploitation of the flaw was revealed by Check Point on Tuesday, a day after they warned that about discovered instances of attackers making login attempts "Using old VPN local-accounts relying on unrecommended password-only authentication method."
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