> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A major cyberattack on French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling $133 million, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party service providers. Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted brands in fake gift card schemes, collecting personal information from unsuspecting consumers. The rise of IoT vulnerabilities is underscored by recent hacks affecting critical infrastructure, such as blood labs and grocery stores. Additionally, vulnerabilities in SonicWall's SonicOS have been exploited, prompting CISA to add these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Developers are also reminded of security best practices, as sensitive credentials were found exposed in public GitHub repositories.
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PHI of 72,000 Pennsylvanians exposed after Insight Global employees allegedly ignored security protocols
Darknet CSAM site Boystown seized and alleged site operators arrested
Recently Google’s FLoC proposal has been making the rounds in the news. FLoC stands for “federated learning of cohorts” and is Google’s vision how to perform user profiling in Chrome going forward.
Currently user tracking and profiling happens (mostly) via cookies, but many browser vendors have been...
US president reportedly considering using private firms to spy on Americans’ online activity
Boris Johnson’s personal cell phone number reportedly available online since 2006
A nifty way for adversaries to acquire passwords during post-exploitation is to spoof credential dialogs and perform a local phishing attack. This means tricking a user on a compromised computer to enter their password.
Unfortunately, users are conditioned to enter their credentials frequently and t...
SAP fined $8m after admitting it exported US-made patches and upgrades to Iran for seven years
Privately owned critical infrastructure to benefit from new cybersecurity delegation
Industry experts argue fightback should begin with better cyber-hygiene
Paleohacks misconfigured an AWS S3 bucket
Babuk says this is its last big job before closing down
Task force urges Biden to tackle ransomware attacks, disrupt cyber-criminals' safe havens, and regulate crypto more tightly
Accenture enters into agreement to acquire French cybersecurity services company
Police trace shared child sexual abuse material back to well-established nanny and babysitter
Participants will be trained via Immersive Labs online platform
Concerned users can now check with HaveIBeenPwned
Supply chain attack caused disruption across the country
Attackers stole less than $1 million after breaching internal security
Man suspected of laundering around $336m in Bitcoin via a crypto-mixing service is arrested
Wyoming Department of Health exposes test results of more than a quarter of state residents on GitHub