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Fujitsu has confirmed that miscreants have compromised some of its internal computers, deployed malware, and may have stolen some customer information. "In a March 15 notice posted on its website, and translated from Japanese, the global tech giant said it had"confirmed the presence of malware on several of our company's work computers, and after conducting an internal investigation "Discovered that files containing personal information and customer information could be illegally taken out."

Fujitsu Limited, the largest Japanese IT services provider, has announced that several of the company's computers have been compromised with malware, leading to a possible data breach. The affected computers have been disconnected and the company has strengthened the monitoring of other business computers, Fujitsu said.

Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security to provide increased security. 1024-bit RSA keys have approximately 80 bits of strength, while the 2048-bit key has approximately 112 bits, making the latter four billion times longer to factor.

The volume of Fortinet boxes exposed to the public internet and vulnerable to a month-old critical security flaw in FortiOS is still extremely high, despite a gradual increase in patching. According to security nonprofit Shadowserver's latest data, the number of Fortinet appliances vulnerable to CVE-2024-21762 stands at more than 133,000 - down only slightly from more than 150,000 ten days prior.

A new elaborate attack campaign has been observed employing PowerShell and VBScript malware to infect Windows systems and harvest sensitive information. Cybersecurity company Securonix, which...

More than 70 million records, allegedly stolen from AT&T in 2021, were dumped on a cybercrime forum at the weekend. The stolen files include names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, addresses, emails, phone numbers and other personal information, according to Dark Web Informer, who first spotted the massive data dump by the criminals.

Electronic Arts has postponed the North American finals of the ongoing Apex Legends Global Series after hackers compromised players mid-match during the tournament. The hack resulted in the player being able to see the positions of all other players on the map, giving him an unfair competitive advantage.

Customer information is usually one of the favorite targets of hackers as it contains confidential details which can be used to commit property or identity theft. Even innocent mistakes such as a lost mobile device that contains customer information can wreak havoc.

Risk management involves the practice of addressing and handling threats to the organization in the form of cybersecurity attacks and compromised or lost data. The process of establishing appropriate risk management guidelines is critical to ensure company operations and reputation do not suffer adverse impacts.

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu discovered that several of its systems were infected by malware and warns that the hackers stole customer data. Fujitsu says it will continue investigating how the malware found its way into business systems and what data it exfiltrated.