Now that the security breach of GitHub by the “TeamPCP” hacking group has been confirmed, Microsoft is facing even more hard questions about the platform’s overall security and stability. At least 3,800 internal repositories, now being offered up for auction.
State-backed Chinese threat actors have once again been linked to a high-profile security breach, this time of FBI surveillance systems used for foreign intelligence interception orders.
The quiet entry and very long breach window without detection does definitely point to nation-state hackers. The list of Ribbon Communications clients certainly raises serious concerns about the security breach, when one sees not just Verizon present but also the U.S. Defense Department, Softbank and City of Los Angeles among others.
An alternative version of the Signal messaging app that was thought to be safe enough for high-level U.S. government officials has suspended service indefinitely after a security breach, and the incident has raised serious questions about how confidential and classified communications are being handled.
During the roughly year-and-a-half that the security breach was active, about 100 email accounts were monitored by the attacker and it is estimated that they viewed about 150,000 messages in total.
Teamviewer has now confirmed that a Russian APT group is the likely culprit in a security breach that impacted the “corporate environment” of its company.
Microsoft’s security breach, which essentially gave the Chinese hackers the ability to walk into any Exchange Online email account and ended up impacting at least 500 people in high-ranking positions, would have been unthinkable at one time.
The perpetrator of a recent attack on Microsoft also seems to have been behind a December security breach of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the second time it hit the company in the space of a year.
Okta’s customer support system was infiltrated in September, and reported to the public in October. At the time, the company said that only about 1% of its customers had anything to worry about from the security breach. A new announcement has revised that number quite sharply; it’s now at nearly 100%.
With 134 customers impacted and just five reporting attacks, the total impact of the Okta security breach appears to have been minimal. However, it has also added to an ongoing string of incidents for the company.