Organizations are increasingly realizing the cost of data breach a year (or more) after the incident, with the biggest expenses coming in the form of fines from governments and lawsuits from consumers that were negatively impacted. Long-term reputational damage is also a consideration.
While very sensitive data is regularly dumped by ransomware gangs, including financial information, the stolen data very often does not attract much casual attention to data leak sites. A search function might change that.
In total, the FBI says that $42 milion has been stolen by fake crypto apps since 2021. The more complicated of these apps almost always use a social engineering element.
The hard-coded password vulnerability is the most serious of the bunch, but there are others that would likely cause the MiCODUS MV720 vehicle GPS tracker to be pulled out of circulation even if it was not present.
The notorious Log4j vulnerability is “endemic” and will not be fully remedied by the open source community or the organizations it plagues, according to a new report from the Cyber Safety Review Board.
Researchers has observed journalists being targeted by state-sponsored hackers from China, North Korea, Turkey and Iran. Cyber espionage campaigns focused on looking for identities of anonymous sources and any “off-the-record” information.
Social media accounts belonging to Disneyland were compromised by an unknown party and used to post crude and offensive messages during a brief account takeover.
Platforms like LinkedIn sometimes make it difficult to filter fake job offers out from legitimate communications. This may have been exploited in the Axie Infinity crypto theft incident.
A social engineering attack apparently ensnared a member of the BWI Airport Marriott staff, with the ensuing data breach leaking 20GB of data including credit card information.
Hacker raised major alarms by offering the personal data of 1 billion China citizens for sale, but it may originate from prior known data leaks that comprise a much smaller total of records.