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Australian IVF Giant Genea Discloses Cybersecurity Incident Exposing Company Data
TechNadu reports: Genea, one of Australia’s leading fertility service providers, has revealed a cybersecurity breach that disrupted patient services and raised concerns about the potential exposure of sensitive information. The company, which operates 21 clinics nationwide, confirmed the incident in a statement on its website on Wednesday. While Genea confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed its data, […]
Venture capital giant Insight Partners hit by cyberattack
Bleeping Computer reports: New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners has disclosed that its systems were breached in January following a social engineering attack. The company manages over $90 billion in regulatory assets and has invested in over 800 software and technology startups and companies worldwide during its 30 years of activity. […]
Finastra Starts Notifying People Impacted by Recent Data Breach
SecurityWeek reports: British fintech giant Finastra last week started sending written notifications to individuals who had their personal information stolen in a data breach. The incident came to light in mid-November 2024, after a threat actor offered on an underground forum data allegedly stolen from the company’s systems. The hacker claimed the theft of 400 gigabytes […]
Palo Alto Networks warns of another firewall vulnerability under attack by hackers
TechCrunch reports: U.S. cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks has warned that hackers are exploiting another vulnerability in its firewall software to break into unpatched customer networks. Attackers are exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in PAN-OS, the operating system that runs Palo Alto Networks firewalls, the California-based company confirmed on Tuesday. Cybersecurity firm Assetnote first discovered the vulnerability, […]
Pro-Russian hackers attack Italian websites after president compares invasion of Ukraine to Nazis
Associated Press reports: A pro-Russian hacker group attacked Italian government websites on Tuesday in what it said was a reaction to a speech by Italian President Sergio Mattarella that compared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the Nazis ‘ “wars of conquest.” The NoName57 hacker group, which announced the attacks on social media, hit the websites of the defense, interior and transport ministries, as […]
Warning issued to 2,500,000,000 Gmail users over ‘devastating scam’ which allows hackers to steal banking and sensitive data
Back in May 2024, the FBI issued a warning about the increasing threat of cybercriminals using AI in their scams to make it difficult for users to spot. Unilad reports: Cybercriminals are seemingly using all the right tricks to take advantage of innocent web users and recently, they have been targeting Gmail customers, which sees them use AI […]
Stealthy Malware in WordPress Sites Enables Remote Code Execution by Hackers
GBHackers reports that researchers have uncovered malware targeting WordPress websites, leveraging hidden backdoors to enable remote code execution (RCE): One notable case involved attackers embedding malicious scripts within the Must-Use Plugins (mu-plugins) directory, a special WordPress folder that automatically loads plugins on every page load without requiring activation. By placing obfuscated PHP code in this directory, attackers […]
Thousands of Polish lawyers affected by data breach
The personal data of thousands of Polish lawyers and trainee lawyers has been leaked online, exposing social security numbers and password hashes, cybersecurity sources have reported. The breach, first reported by CyberDefence24, occurred on February 14 at around 8:00 PM, with some 10,337 names and 9,037 social security—or PESEL numbers—leaked. The Supreme Bar Council (Naczelna […]