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Contact Center Linked to Qantas Frequent Flyer Program Breached, Up to Six Million Records Exposed
Australia’s Qantas has been contacting customers about a data breach that appears to be tied to its loyalty rewards program. The airline says that a third-party contact center was compromised and at least some of its customers, potentially up to six million, are impacted.
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Scattered Spider Shifts Cyber Attacks to North American Airlines
After hopping from UK retail to US retail to US insurance firms, the hacking group “Scattered Spider” appears to have switched industries once again. The FBI is advising that North American airlines should be on alert for cyber attacks, as well as their assorted vendors and contractors.
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NSA and CISA Turn Up the Heat on Changeover to Memory-Safe Languages
A new CISA/NSA report summarizes the benefits of memory-safe languages for organizations, with a particular focus on critical infrastructure partners, but also acknowledges common challenges that make the changeover a long-term goal and one that may never be 100% attainable.
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Users Searching Google for Support Numbers May Be Walking Into a Trap
Scammers take out Google ads impersonating legitimate companies offering support numbers. Victims that clicked on the link are taken to the company’s legitimate URL with a hacker-controlled phone number inserted in the site search bar.
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Insurance Companies the New Focus for “Scattered Spider” Hacking Team
Scattered Spider now has a long history of focusing on particular industries and regions for weeks at a time before pivoting somewhere else, and the Google Threat Intelligence Group is warning that their attention has now shifted to US insurance companies.
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16 Billion Leaked Login Credentials Just Dropped; How Great Is the Risk?
Formatting of the login credentials makes clear that this collection was largely put together by way of infostealer malware. Most entries have the URL of the applicable service paired with the username and password, but some include further information such as cookies or access tokens.
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Highlights of Trump’s New Cybersecurity Executive Order: AI Security, Quantum Cryptography and a Blow to Digital IDs
Trump’s new cybersecurity executive order reflects both ongoing political tensions and necessary cybersecurity realities, ranging from discouraging adoption of mobile driver’s licenses to reframing AI and automation defense approaches to address new developments.
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2026 Budget Cuts to CISA Could Reshape the Organization
The 2026 budget cuts are broad, and it is unclear if curtailing anti-disinformation activities are the only impact they will have. The total removal of $495 million from CISA’s coffers would drop its budget by about 16.5%, and much of that would come from removal of 1,083 of its 3,292 employees.
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FBI Warning: BADBOX 2.0 Botnet Targeting Home IoT Devices
A new botnet is having a great deal of success in compromising home networks via IoT devices, one thought to be controlled by private criminal operators in China with some assistance from an app development company based in Malaysia.
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Cyber Scams Backed by Infrastructure Provider Based in Phillippines Pose Major Security Challenge
The illicit infrastructure provider has been in business since at least late 2023 and is one of the bigger ones of its type, but far from the only one. The FBI says that it has located over 332,000 unique domain names owned by the group and that the cyber scams it facilitates have taken in…