Bleeping Computer has been reporting on ShinyHunters’ latest activities. Their newest reporting includes incidents involving SoundCloud and PornHub. Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users’ email addresses and profile information. […]
Geo News reports: Russian hackers have sent shockwaves through Britain’s health system after gaining access to hundreds of thousands of sensitive NHS documents some of them linked to the Royal Household. The cyber breach, blamed on a ransomware gang exploiting a flaw in NHS software, has resulted in around 169,000 confidential files being dumped on […]
The Record reports: A cyberattack on the library system of Pierce County, Washington exposed the information of more than 340,000 people. The Pierce County Library System published breach notifications this week on its website and with regulators in several states. The letters concern a cybersecurity incident that was first discovered on April 21 and required the library system to shut down […]
Bleeping Computer reports: U.S. prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian national for her role in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure worldwide, including U.S. water systems, election systems, and nuclear facilities, on behalf of Russian state-backed hacktivist groups. On Tuesday, 33-year-old Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova (also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya) was arraigned on charges related to her […]
On December 4, the U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Financial Trend Analysis of ransomware incidents since January 2022: FinCEN
There have been many articles written about the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) being used to program or assist cybercrime, but very little evidence of it actually happening. Here is a case where it has reportedly happened. Kyodo News reports: A 17-year-old boy was served an arrest warrant on Thursday on suspicion of breaching the […]
Cyber Security News reports that LockBit 5.0’s infrastructure was leaked on X.com on December 5 by Rakesh Krishnan: LockBit 5.0 key infrastructure exposed, revealing the IP address 205.185.116.233, and the domain karma0.xyz is hosting the ransomware group’s latest leak site. According to researcher Rakesh Krishnan, hosted under AS53667 (PONYNET, operated by FranTech Solutions), a network frequently […]
The Record reports: State-backed hackers in China are exploiting a vulnerability impacting a popular open-source tool built into thousands of widely-used digital products, according to new reports. The tool, React Server Components, was maintained by Meta for many years and now is embedded in 50 million websites and products built by countless major firms. The bug, tagged […]
HackRead reports: Barts Health NHS Trust has confirmed that the Russian-speaking Cl0p ransomware group stole files from one of its invoice databases after exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite. The breach exposed data linked to payments for treatment and services, with some records going back several years. Hackread.com first reported on the Cl0p activity in November twenty twenty […]
Gesa Credit Union was one of Marquis Software Solutions’s clients affected by a breach at Marquis, but there were many others. Bleeping Computer reports: Financial software provider Marquis Software Solutions is warning that it suffered a data breach that impacted dozens of banks and credit unions across the US. Marquis Software Solutions provides data analytics, […]
