The number of people falling victim to data breaches has fallen back from last year’s record high, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a US-based non-profit that provides identity crime advice.
In a letter to contractors, Morgan Hunt – which provides personnel services to clients in the charity education, finance, government, housing, and technology sectors – confirmed the break-in.
According to Skybox Security, the top four causes of the most significant breaches reported by the affected organizations were human error, misconfigurations, poor maintenance/lack of cyber hygiene, and unknown assets.
Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology are warning this week about a novel technique attackers could use to de-anonymize website visitors and potentially connect the dots on many components of targets’ digital lives.
A lawsuit has been filed against Tenet Healthcare and its Texas affiliate Baptist Health System following Tenet’s breach notification to 1.2 million patients that their data was stolen during a systems’ hack in March.
Digital Shadows, which monitors almost 90 data leak sites on the dark web, observed ransomware groups name 705 victims in Q2 2022, representing a 21% increase over last quarter’s 582.
The botnet – which Cloudflare calls Mantis and which is named after the small, razor-legged prawn – generated a short but record-breaking DDoS attack in June that peaked at 26 million HTTPS requests per second (rps).
A new SMS-based scam is reaching out to people in New York with a false claim of New York State offering $1,500 rebates owing to high fuel prices. Those who click on the links are redirected to a fake DMV website and urged to enter their personal information. The NYS Office has provided multiple recommendations for […]
Malicious actors are leveraging GitHub Actions (GHA) and Azure virtual machines (VMs) for cloud-based cryptocurrency mining. Over 1,000 repositories and 550 code samples were spotted abusing GitHub Actions to mine cryptocurrency. Due to this, the cost of electricity to the target organization increased from $20 up to $130 per month. Early detection of possible exploits […]
The gang has launched several high-profile attacks, including OilTanking GmbH in January and Swissport in February. Most recently, BlackCat targeted Florida International University and the University of North Carolina A&T.