Hacker posted videos of the yet released GTA6 game to a popular discussion forum, and followed that up with claims of stolen GTA5 source code and a demand for payment from Rockstar.
Public accusations of cyber espionage at a research university appear to be in response to Washington ramping up its own warnings to private industry about China’s hackers.
Hundreds of sensitive and classified NATO documents that were supposed to be stored in air-gapped systems were stolen from a Portugal military agency. It is unknown who (or how many) parties may have purchased them from the dark web.
Teenage hacker targeted MFA fatigue for initial access in Uber network breach, and escalated the cybersecurity incident with plaintext administrator usernames and passwords found on the network.
Diplomatic ties have now been formally dissolved as a cyber attack campaign attributed to Iran did damage to critical infrastructure and government websites. Albania says that the primary focus of the cyber attacks was to expose information on the dissidents that it is providing safe harbor to.
IHG hotel loyalty program members began noticing difficulties with the hotel booking system toward the end of the first week of September. The cyber attack most likely involved ransomware.
A TikTok hack that allows for account takeovers with just one click on a malicious link has been discovered by security researchers with Microsoft, and at least one hacker has already popped up on the dark web claiming to have stolen the data of over a billion users.
45% of organizations surveyed are not carrying any cyber insurance at all. A little over 80% have no more than $600,000 in coverage, which would likely only cover part of a ransomware payment.
Vague attribution of nation-state attacks could become an existential threat if the cost of a ransomware incident stretches into the tens of millions of dollars, as businesses struggle to maintain cyber insurance coverage.
Some Russian criminal groups have directed ransomware attacks as a way to support the invasion of Ukraine. Others are simply attacking government agencies out of opportunity and an apparent lack of fear.