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JLR cyber attack: production won’t restart until 24 Sept at earliest
Autocar reports: JLR car production will not restart until 24 September at the earliest, the company has confirmed. The Jaguar and Land Rover maker was targeted by hackers on 1 September and is still in the process of rebuilding its computer systems. The group that hit Marks & Spencer earlier this year has claimed responsibility. This has led to […]
SEC to Notify Crypto Businesses of Technical Violations Before Taking Action: Report
CryptoPotato reports: A report by the Financial Times revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to issue crypto firms notices of technical violations before taking action. The move is a shift away from the aggressive enforcement approach that was pursued under former President Joe Biden. Trump-appointed SEC Chair Paul Atkins told the Financial Times in […]
Tiffany Korea acknowledges customer data leak, begins security overhaul
Chosun Biz reports an update to a previously disclosed breach affecting Tiffany Korea: Tiffany & Co., the luxury jewelry brand of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), announced that it became aware of a leak of key personal information, including customers’ names, postal and email addresses, and phone numbers. Through a notice on the 15th, Tiffany […]
Extradition Battle Over RaidForums’ Owner Continues
Risky Biz News reports that the battle between the US and Portugal over which country gets to prosecute the owner of the RaidForums hacking forum and marketplace continues. Diogo Santos Coelho, known online as Omnipotent, is a Portuguese national who was arrested in the UK in January 2022 when he flew there to visit his […]
Gucci, Balenciaga, Brioni, and Alexander McQueen allegedly hit by Salesforce attacks
More high-end retailers have reportedly fallen prey to Salesforce attacks. As first reported by DataBreaches.net, Gucci customer data was stolen last year. The data included more than 43 million records with customers’ names, age range, month and date of birth, email addresses, mobile phone numbers, addresses, total sales prices, and some additional information. The records […]
FBI FLASH: Cyber Criminal Groups UNC6040 and UNC6395 Compromising Salesforce Instances for Data Theft and Extortion
The FBI has issued an alert, FLASH-20250912-001. Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with recent malicious cyber activities by cyber criminal groups UNC6040 and UNC6395, responsible for a rising number of data theft and extortion intrusions. Both groups have recently been observed targeting […]
Sen. Wyden seeks FTC probe into Microsoft over Ascension cyberattack
Becker’s Health IT reports: U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft, saying weak security practices at the tech company helped enable a 2024 ransomware attack on St. Louis-based Ascension hospitals, Bloomberg reported Sept. 10. In a letter sent Sept. 10 to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Wyden accused Microsoft of “gross […]
Watchdog warns of ‘insider threat’ of students launching cyberattacks on their schools
Public Technology reports: The UK’s data-protection watchdog has warned of a growing trend of cyberattacks on schools being perpetrated by pupils. The Information Commissioner’s Office recently analysed the details of 215 data breaches that took place across the education sector between January 2022 and August 2024 and were classified as “insider attacks”. Almost three in […]