Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware, Miscellaneous News, News
October 10, 2025
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LockBit, DragonForce, and Qilin form a ‘cartel’ to dictate ransomware market conditions (1)

CSO reports: Three of the most notorious ransomware-as-a-service operations have formed a criminal cartel aimed at coordinating attacks and sharing resources in what they describe as an increasingly “challenging” ransomware business environment. DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit announced the partnership in early September, with DragonForce proposing the collaboration shortly after LockBit reemerged with its LockBit 5.0 […]

Data Breach News, News, Vendor News
October 09, 2025
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Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users

Bleeping Computer reports: Discord says they will not be paying threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company’s Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people. The company is also pushing back on claims that 2.1 million photos of government IDs […]

Critical Infrastructure, Data Breach News
October 09, 2025
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Nearly a third of Mississippi state agencies fail cybersecurity requirements

The Vicksburg Daily News reports on the findings by the state auditor: According to Mississippi State Auditor Shad White, a third of state offices are at risk of cybercrimes due to not meeting cybersecurity assessment requirements according to a report released yesterday, Tuesday, Oct. 7. Auditor Shad White stated in the release, “Part of our […]

Data Breach News, News
October 08, 2025
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Two arrested over nursery chain Kido hack

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IT Pro reports two men have been arrested in connection with the attack on Kido schools in which individuals calling themselves Radiant Group first posted pictures, names, and details of nursery school kids and threatened to dump all 8,000, and then deleted the data and apologized. The UK’s Metropolitan Police have arrested two teenagers for […]

Data Breach News
October 08, 2025
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Japan’s Asahi hack that halted beer production claimed by Qilin ransomware group

Reuters reports an update on the attack on a prominent Japanese brewery: Qilin, a ransomware group with a track record of cyberattacks on major entities around the world, claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a hack on Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings that disrupted production at the beer and beverage giant. Asahi Group’s beer-making subsidiary, Asahi Breweries, said on […]

Data Breach News
October 06, 2025
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Ransomware variant poses heightened risk to hospitals

Becker’s Health IT reports: The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit organization that works to share threat intelligence, issued an alert Oct. 1 regarding LockBit 5.0, a ransomware variant that represents an elevated risk to healthcare and other enterprises. The variant is the latest iteration of the ransomware-as-a-service group, which resurfaced in September after a […]

Data Breach News, News
October 06, 2025
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ParkMobile pays… $1 each for 2021 data breach that hit 22 million

Bleeping Computer reports: ParkMobile has finally wrapped up a class action lawsuit over the platform’s 2021 data breach that hit 22 million users. But there’s a catch: victims are receiving compensation in the form of a $1 in-app credit, which they must claim manually. And, it comes with an expiration date. In-app $0.25 credit can be […]

Data Breach News, News
October 04, 2025
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Returns With Salesforce Leak Site

DarkReading reports: After announcing its farewell last month, the cyber extortion group known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters returned on Friday with a website featuring stolen Salesforce data and a list of dozens of alleged victims. Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is an apparent combination of the Scattered Spider, Lapsus$, and ShinyHunters cybercriminal groups, which first emerged over the summer […]

Data Breach News, News
October 04, 2025
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Oracle customers being bombarded with emails claiming widespread data theftOracle E-Business

CyberScoop reports: Attackers appearing to be aligned with the Clop ransomware group have sent emails to Oracle customers seeking extortion payments, claiming they stole data from the tech giant’s E-Business Suite, according to researchers who spoke with CyberScoop.  Researchers haven’t confirmed the veracity of Clop’s claimed data theft, but multiple investigations into Oracle environments belonging […]