“At this time, our analysis of the data shows that this is not a legitimate claim and an aggregation of data. We have seen no evidence that our customer data has been accessed or compromised,” Microsoft noted.
According to Emsisoft data, at least 19 healthcare providers hit by ransomware attacks operate 33 hospitals and at least 16 of the 19 had data exfiltrated. Data exfiltration last year occurred in 68% of cases.
A SOCRadar dark web analyst recently discovered an alleged database leak for Instagram. The leaked data reportedly contains over 17 million records in JSON format. The nature of the data suggests that it may have been collected from open source.
Attackers said “We announce that we have successfully hacked Microsoft and have access to a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, email and password. Price for full database : 50,000 USD.”
Protecting runtime environments requires at least a monitoring approach that includes scanning for known malicious files and network communications, then blocking them and alerting when they appear. However, this is still insufficient.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first time cyber experts at GCHQ responded to a foreign state hacking the British government, the intelligence and security agency revealed on Friday.
Police in Britain are investigating multiple incidents in which national exam papers for school-leavers were stolen by hackers and sold online to students seeking to cheat on their tests.
Pay and benefits details of Dublin Airport staff were compromised in a cyberattack on professional service provider Aon, highlighting the vulnerability of supply chain attacks.
A Chinese nation-state group has been observed targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe using HTML smuggling techniques to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan on compromised systems.
Hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are vulnerable to a critical security issue identified as CVE-2023-27997, almost a month after Fortinet released an update that addresses the problem.