BleepingComputer reports: Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company’s Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers. “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or […]
Security researcher Adam Shostack writes:
Some may call it “hacktivism.” Some call it “domestic terrorism.” The Economic Times reports: Tesla owners across the United States are on high alert following a shocking cyberattack that revealed their personal information. With a terrifying symbol, the hackers responsible for the breach, who oppose Elon Musk, have shared an interactive map containing the owners’ […]
Data Breach Today reports that Australia’s financial regulator has filed a lawsuit against FIIG Securities over cybersecurity failures that enabled a threat actor to steal confidential personal information of 18,000 customers: The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it decided to sue Brisbane-headquartered FIIG Securities in Federal Court after observing the company’s “systemic and prolonged cybersecurity failures” […]
In December 2024, EdTech vendor PowerSchool was hit with a major attack that reportedly affected more than 60 million students and employees throughout the country. But that wasn’t the only major attack affecting an education sector vendor in December. Teiss reports that a retirement services vendor was also the victim of an attack: About 50 […]
DevOps reports: A popular GitHub Action used in more than 23,000 code repositories has been compromised in a supply chain attack by attackers who introduced a malicious commit aimed at leaking secrets like passwords held in public repositories. In the compromise, which is being tracked as CVE-2025-30066, bad actors modified the code in GitHub Actions tj-actions/changed-files […]
Tycko & Zavareei Whistleblower Practice Group writes: February 2025 saw an important False Claims Act settlement involving allegations of known cybersecurity failures by Health Net Federal Services Inc. (HNFS), a government contractor that provides TRICARE healthcare management services to active duty military members and their families. HNFS as well as its parent corporation Centene agreed […]
About Lawsuits reports that all the state and federal lawsuits against Change Healthcare should be coordinated: The U.S. District Judge appointed to preside over all Change Healthcare data breach lawsuits brought throughout the federal court system has issued an order, outlining a plan to coordinate the pretrial proceedings in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) with claims pending […]
The U.S. Department of Justice announced: A dual Russian and Israeli national was extradited to the United States on charges that he was a developer of the LockBit ransomware group, United States Attorney John Giordano announced. In August, Rostislav Panev, 51, was arrested in Israel pursuant to a U.S. provisional arrest request. Today, Panev was […]
Dark Storm, the big scary-sounding group that took down X (formerly Twitter) in a DDoS attack was just an Egyptian college kid? Cybernews reports: A French security researcher on Tuesday claims to have uncovered the identity of the Dark Storm hacker behind the hours-long DDoS cyberattack on Elon Musk’s X social media platform – and […]
