The ODP Corp. reports in a Securities and Exchange Commission 8-K filing that it has suffered a loss of about $28 million due to a March 1 cyber incident at its business services and supplies subsidiary, CompuCom, that forced the company to shut down some of its operations.
Customers of Indian payments platform MobiKwik appear to have gotten a lucky break: A listing for 8.2TB of stolen data pertaining to 99 million customers was withdrawn by a cybercrime forum seller, supposedly because of the public risk posed. MobiKwik continues to deny that it was breached. Who's to be believed?
The Iranian-linked threat group TA453, also known as Charming Kitten and Phosphorus, conducted a phishing campaign, dubbed "BadBlood," in late 2020 that targeted senior U.S. and Israeli medical researchers in an attempt to obtain their Microsoft Office credentials, according to Proofpoint.
Banks and mobile network operators should collaborate to mitigate the risks of SIM swap fraud, which can lead to account takeovers, says Clare Messenger, global head of fraud protection at the U.K. telecom firm JT Group Ltd.
Security practitioners often tread a fine and not entirely well-defined legal line in collecting current and meaningful research. This research can also pose ethical questions when commercial sources for stolen data fall into a gray area.
Check Point Research says it has spotted more than 50,000 ransomware attack attempts worldwide so far against unpatched on-premises Microsoft Exchange email servers.
The zero-day attacks against Accellion's File Transfer Appliance show that a number of big-name firms continued to use the legacy technology - even though more secure, cloud-based options were available. Evidently, many CISOs didn't see a compelling reason to move on. Of course, now they do.
An attacker added a backdoor to the source code for PHP, an open-source, server-side scripting language used by more than 75% of the world's websites. Core PHP project members say the backdoor was quickly removed.
A major Australian broadcaster was hit over the weekend by what was likely ransomware, and the country's federal Parliament was affected by what is described as a clumsy incident that nonetheless triggered a shutdown of its email system.
Researchers at Awake Security says at least one attack launched by the operators of Hades ransomware has a connection to the China-linked Hafnium group waging attacks on vulnerable Exchange servers.
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Several members of the German Parliament, the Bundestag, and political activists in the country were targeted by a spear-phishing campaign, according to a local news report Friday. Parliament previously sustained a cyberattack in 2015.
Eleven U.S. senators are raising concerns about the Department of Energy's cybersecurity readiness as the department continues to investigate a breach related to the SolarWinds supply chain attack.
Identity crimes are up, but data breaches are down. What does this mean for risk mitigation strategies? Jim Van Dyke and Al Pascual of Sontiq offer an analysis.
Left unsaid in Fat Face's "strictly private and confidential" data breach notification to affected customers this week was any indication that the fashion clothing retailer had paid a reported $2 million ransom to the Conti gang to unlock its systems. Fat Face has now confirmed the ransomware hit.
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