Hackers had been lurking undetected, and the FBI confirms they've breached systems critical to national security.
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North Korean hackers may have found a new trick to bypass macOS security and hide malicious code using Google's Flutter.
The main Internet Archive website is back online after hackers breached the site earlier this month and stole personal information from its servers
The Internet Archives' Wayback Machine site is now back online after a cyberattack hacked into the popular site last week and got access to 31 million user accounts.
Internet Archive and Wayback Machine have been facing DDoS cyberattacks for the last few days. The non-profit assured that collections are safe despite the service being inconsistent since Sunday.
Roku discovered a second data breach affecting 576,000 accounts on its streaming platform. The company discovered the new unauthorized access while monitoring accounts following the first incident.
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Microsoft has posted an update on the discovery that a Russian hacker group accessed its corporate email accounts. Apparently, it used the information to breach Microsoft's source code repositories.
Developer Insomniac Games has finally comments on the recent cyberattack that caused massive amounts of data and info to be leaked from the studio, saying it is "saddened and angered".
A ransomware group has reportedly leaked over 1.3 million files online that it says was obtained from a cyberattack on Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games, of which includes personal data.
Microsoft has denied the claims made by Anonymous Sudan that the hacker group was able to access company's servers during a cyberattack last month and steal data of 30 million customers.
TSMC has said that it wasn't greatly affected by LockBit malware that hit one of its suppliers. Despite this, hackers have demanded a $70 million ransom, or it will leak info it claims to have.
Millions of driver's license numbers and more info from the states of Louisiana and Oregon have been reportedly exposed in this cyberattack that used a flaw in the MOVEit file transfer software.
Microsoft has revealed that the disruption to its services in the beginning of June was caused by a sophisticated DDoS cyberattack that overloaded the systems and caused a global blackout.
It's not yet clear which US government agencies were hit as part of this cyberattack, nor if they had any files taken as a result. A known hacker group called CL0P is a suspect in some of the attacks.
The unidentified hacker claims it took 10TB of data from Western Digital's network in March, including customer information. They want to get a large "minimum 8 figures" ransom payment.
While the My Cloud service from Western Digital may be up and running again, the computer storage and memory company still has not offered an update on the cyberattack on its network.
In a press release, Western Digital stated its network systems were hacked by an "unauthorized third party." There's very little word on what kind of data was taken during the attack.
Australian digital payments and lending company Latitude Financial has suffered a hacking incident. This allows cybercriminals to get a hold of the identification documents of 328,000 customers.
The satellite TV service stated some of its customer call centers are still being affected by this cyber attack, and that some "data was extracted," but Dish Network didn't offer any details.
The satellite TV service Dish Network has been experiencing outages for the last several days on its website, apps, and customer service systems. Some reports claim that it's due to a cyber attack.
The cybercriminals behind the ESXiArgs ransomware have created a new variant that evades the recovery script that the U.S. CISA recently released. The new version also comes with a new ransom note.
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The cybercriminals, who were, responsible for the Medibank cyber-attack have released the customer data they took from the health insurer onto the dark web. The police investigation is still on.
Medibank, the Australian private health insurance provider has been hit by a cyber incident. Currently, It is investigating the nature of the incident and any impact it may have on its customers.
The UK government is set to introduce laws to ensure broadband and mobile companies follow strict security protocols. Failure to do so will see firms get fined by Ofcom by as much as £100,000 per day.
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Google has announced that it now wears the crown for blocking the largest DDoS attack ever. Its DDoS attack peaked at 46 million requests per second which is 76% higher than Cloudflare's best.
One of the leading anti-virus assessment companies, AV-TEST couldn't stop the breach of its own Twitter account. The attack happened over a week ago and the account still remains hacked.
T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million as part of a settlement after the records of 76.6 million customers were compromised. It will also spend $150 million upgrading its data security.
A new air-gap cyberattack technique has entered the frame. The researchers are referring to it as “SATAn” and it basically involves using ordinary SATA cables to transmit data wirelessly.
QNAP remains silent while ech0raix, a ransomware operator targets its devices once again. QNAP NAS devices had been attacked earlier this year, in 2021, and in 2020. Users must remain cautious.
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Ubisoft has acknowledged it suffered a "cybersecurity incident". As a precaution, the game publisher has reset all internal passwords. All its games and services are functioning normally.
Microsoft has announced a series of steps that it is taking to aid Ukrainian authorities and civilians. It has also detailed how it is dismantling Russian state-sponsored propaganda on its platforms.
Ukraine's digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov is calling for international volunteers to help wage cyber-war on Russia. The telegram channel has more than 180,000 members.
Back in December last year, Microsoft had disabled the MSIX app installer protocol to prevent malicious spoofing attempts and attacks. Today, a formal annoucement has come regarding the matter.
Microsoft blocked close to 71 billion cybersecurity attacks last year using its various security solutions like Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Office 365. However, the firm is also worried.
Certain health data management systems in Brazil have suffered a cyberattack, with COVID-19 vaccination data allegedly being deleted. The government has been unable to recover the data so far.
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Intel has published an updated security advisory for a couple of new LPE bugs that were discovered. A lot of the newer CPUs, except Alder Lake, are vulnerable too. Firmware patches are rolling out.
Tesco, a major UK supermarket, has had its systems hacked. The incident seems to be ongoing and while the shop says no data has been stolen, it'll be hard to know for sure until the issue is resolved.
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Microsoft says Azure was easily able to handle a multi-Tbps (2.4Tbps) bandwidth DDoS attack, the largest it had ever faced. This attack was more than double larger than the one it took on last year.
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