UnitedHealth almost doubles victim numbers from massive Change Healthcare data breach

UnitedHealth says it now estimates that the data breach on its subsidiary Change Healthcare affected 190 million people, nearly doubling its previous estimate from October. In May, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty estimated that the ransomware attack compromised the data of a third of US individuals...

The vulnerability of the Samsung Smart Switch data transfer service for the Android operating system allows a hacker to influence the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Samsung Smart Switch data transfer service for the Android operating system is related to errors in verifying the cryptographic signature. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to influence the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protecte...

UnitedHealth Group’s Massive Data Breach Impacts 190 Million Americans

UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that a ransomware attack targeted its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, in February 2024, impacting 190…...

How to Eliminate Identity-Based Threats

Despite significant investments in advanced technologies and employee training programs, credential and user-based attacks remain alarmingly prevalent, accounting for 50-80% of enterprise breaches1,2. While identity-based attacks continue to dominate as the leading cause of security incidents, th...

CVE-2025-21565

Vulnerability in the Oracle Agile PLM Framework product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Install. The supported version that is affected is 9.3.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Agile PLM Framework. Successful...

Hackers Claim Breach of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lists Data for Sale

Hacker IntelBroker claims to have breached Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE, exposing sensitive data like source code, certificates, and…...

Avery had credit card skimmer stuck on its site for months

The consequences of a wave of credit card skimmers—which is normal around the holidays—are starting to show. Label maker Avery has filed a data breach notification, saying 61,193 people may have had their credit card details stolen. On December 9, Avery said it became aware of an attack on its...

CVE-2025-21321

CVE-2025-21321 refers to a Windows Kernel Memory Information Disclosure vulnerability. Documentation confirms it affects Windows kernel memory and was addressed by January 2025 security updates (e.g., KB5050009, KB5050021, KB5049984, KB5049981, KB5049993). The CVSS shows local access with low pri...

Insurance company accused of using secret software to illegally collect and sell location data on millions of Americans

Insurance company Allstate and its subsidiary Arity unlawfully collected, used, and sold data about the location and movement of Texans’ cell phones through secretly embedded software in mobile apps, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Attorney General Paxton says the companies didn't...

Hackers Breach Telefonica Network, Leak 2.3 GB of Data Online

Telefónica faces a data breach impacting its internal systems, linked to hackers using compromised credentials. Learn more about this alarming cyber threat...

A week in security (January 6 – January 12)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Dental group lied through teeth about data breach, fined $350,000 AI-supported spear phishing fools more than 50% of targets US Cyber Trust Mark logo for smart devices is coming GroupGreeting e-card site attacked in "zqxq" campaign Massive breach at location data...

Massive breach at location data seller: “Millions” of users affected

Like many other data brokers, Gravy is a company you may never have heard of, but it almost certainly knows a lot about you if you’re a US citizen. Data brokers come in different shapes and sizes. What they have in common is that they gather personally identifiable data from various sources—from...

CVE-2024-12618

The Newsletter2Go plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'resetStyles' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.14. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to...

E.U. Commission Fined for Transferring User Data to Meta in Violation of Privacy Laws

The European General Court on Wednesday fined the European Commission, the primary executive arm of the European Union responsible for proposing and enforcing laws for member states, for violating the bloc's own data privacy regulations. The development marks the first time the Commission has bee...

CVE-2024-10527

The Spacer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the motechspacercallback function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view...

Dental group lied through teeth about data breach, fined $350,000

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an “accidentally formatted hard drive.” Unfortunately for the organization, the truth was found out. Westend Dental...

India Proposes Digital Data Rules with Tough Penalties and Cybersecurity Requirements

The Indian government has published a draft version of the Digital Personal Data Protection DPDP Rules for public consultation. "Data fiduciaries must provide clear and accessible information about how personal data is processed, enabling informed consent," India's Press Information Bureau PIB sa...

Data breaches in 2024: Could it get any worse?

It may sound weird when I say that I would like to remember 2024 as the year of the biggest breaches. That’s mainly because that would mean we’ll never see another year like it. To support this nomination, I will remind you of several high-profile breaches, some of a size almost beyond imaginatio...

U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m , a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT &T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, th...

Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts

A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company's network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira , 29, of Curitiba, Brazil has been charged with four counts of extortionate threats involving information obtaine...