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Gang Of 5 Employees Stole The Customer Data At Late Night In Office

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GB Hackers provides one of this week’s examples of the insider threat: The sequence of events sounds like it was taken straight from a movie script. Five software programmers were working late into the night, chatting on their phones while they worked. During the wee hours of October 9, between 1:00 am and 4:00 am, […]

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Detailed data on employees of U.S. national security lab leak online

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CyberScoop reports: A cybercrime group that has engaged in politically motivated attacks breached a human resources application belonging to Idaho National Laboratory, claiming in a post to Telegram on Sunday that it had obtained detailed information on employees working at the nuclear research lab. The hacking group SiegedSec said it had accessed “hundreds of thousands of user, […]

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More than half of Black Friday shoppers wary of breached online retailers

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Insurance Business reports some findings for U.K. consumers. Would the findings be in the same in the U.S., we wonder? A survey conducted by QBE Insurance has revealed a cautious stance among Black Friday shoppers towards online retailers that have experienced data breaches. The study found that 54% of consumers participating in Black Friday sales would avoid […]

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Citrix warns admins to kill NetScaler user sessions to block hackers

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Earlier today, CISA issued an advisory: StopRansomware: LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Affiliates Exploit CVE 2023-4966 Citrix Bleed Vulnerability. The advisory includes TTPs and IOCs obtained from FBI, ACSC, and voluntarily shared by Boeing following its recent attack by LockBit that resulted in their data being leaked. Boeing observed LockBit 3.0 affiliates exploiting CVE-2023-4966, to obtain initial […]

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Cyberattacks at two Canadian government contractors affect former and current government employees, including RCMP and Defense

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Bleeping Computer reports: The Canadian government says two of its contractors have been hacked, exposing sensitive information belonging to an undisclosed number of government employees.  These breaches occurred last month and impacted Brookfield Global Relocation Services (BGRS) and SIRVA Worldwide Relocation & Moving Services, both providers of relocation services to Canadian government employees.  Government-related information stored […]

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Cybersecurity firm executive pleads guilty to hacking hospitals

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Bleeping Computer reports: The former chief operating officer of a cybersecurity company has pleaded guilty to hacking two hospitals, part of the Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC), in June 2021 to boost his company’s business. Vikas Singla, who worked for Securolytics, a network security company that provided services to the healthcare industry, pleaded guilty to hacking […]

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Rhysida Hackers Demand £602,500 in Bitcoin After British Library Ransomware Attack

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The420 reports: A lethal cyber attack has rocked the revered British Library, leaving its IT systems crippled for weeks. The brazen ransomware gang, known as the Rhysida group, has claimed responsibility for the attack, demanding a hefty sum of 20 Bitcoin, equivalent to approximately £602,500, for the return of stolen sensitive data, including employee passport […]

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FCC adopts new rules to protect consumers from SIM-swapping attacks

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Bleeping Computer reports: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed new rules to shield consumers from criminals who hijack their phone numbers in SIM swapping attacks and port-out fraud. FCC’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force introduced the new regulations in July. They are geared toward thwarting scammers who seek to access personal data and information […]