How kids pay the price for ransomware attacks on education

Modern ransomware attacks are as much about stealing data and threatening to leak it as they are about encrypting data. Which means that when a school or hospital is attacked, it's often students' and patients' data that's leaked if the ransom demand isn't met. We have to wonder how greedy any...

Global Translation Service Exposed Highly Sensitive Records Online

By Waqas The company behind the database mess-up is Kings of Translation, a US-based "premium translation service provider." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Global Translation Service Exposed Highly Sensitive Records Online...

HackerOne: Hackerone All Private Program Name Leaked to Public Via Collaborator OR Attacker can Easily Dump all Private Program Names through Collaborator

A vulnerability was discovered in Hackerone that allowed an attacker to obtain the names of private programs. By manipulating the report ID and using the Collaborator feature, the attacker could determine if a program was private or public. This compromised the confidentiality of private programs...

Warning issued over vulnerability in cardiac device monitoring software

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued a warning about a vulnerability that could result in remote code execution or a denial-of-service DoS condition impacting a healthcare delivery organizations Paceart Optima system. Paceart Optima is a software application that...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-36813

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. In versions prior to 1.2.31authenticated user is able to perform a SQL Injection, leading to a privilege escalation or loss of confidentiality. It appears that in some insert and update operations, the code improperly...

CVE-2023-36817

In CVE-2023-36817, the repository tktchurch/website (The King’s Temple Church website) version 0.1.0 exposed a Stripe API key in public code. The root cause is sensitive credentials accidentally committed to the codebase, enabling potential unauthorized financial transactions and access to custom...

Spyware app LetMeSpy hacked, tracked user data posted online

Stalkerware-type app LetMeSpy says it has been hacked, with the attacker taking user data with it. From the message posted to the login screen on the LetMeSpy website: On June 21, 2023, a security incident occurred involving obtaining unauthorized access to the data of website users. As a result ...

Tennessee Valley Authority: Admin.MyTVA.com Customer lookup and internal notes bypass

The admin.mytva.com site had a vulnerability that allowed an attacker to bypass the login and access admin-only endpoints. This could lead to unauthorized access to customer information and the ability to add internal notes...

Android Spy App LetMeSpy Suffers Major Data Breach, Exposing Users' Personal Data

Android-based phone monitoring app LetMeSpy has disclosed a security breach that allowed an unauthorized third-party to steal sensitive data associated with thousands of Android users. "As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to email addresses, telephone numbers and the content of...

Stalkerware Vendor Hacked

The stalkerware company LetMeSpy has been hacked: TechCrunch reviewed the leaked data, which included years of victims call logs and text messages dating back to 2013. The database we reviewed contained current records on at least 13,000 compromised devices, though some of the devices shared litt...

Company finds lost SSD—and confidential data—for sale on eBay

Major software company SAP is putting the pieces of a story involving missing SSD disks back together. Four SSD disks are alleged to have gone on an adventure last November, making their way out of a Walldorf, Germany, datacenter with one of them ending up on eBay. An investigation revealed that...

US Auto Insurance Price Comparison Site RateForce Leaks Massive PII Data

By Habiba Rashid The leaked database contained a staggering 96,175 folders that housed 255,756 records, totaling a size of 93.93 GB. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Auto Insurance Price Comparison Site RateForce Leaks Massive PII Data...

UPS warns customers of phishing attempts after data accessed

UPS Canada is warning customers in Canada of potential data exposure and the risk of phishing. People have started to receive letters like the one below from UPS, which some have assumed were "just" regular phishing alerts. As it turns out, the letter is specifically about the potential exposure ...

The Reddit Files: Hackers Demand $4.5M Ransom and API Access Waiver

By Deeba Ahmed The hackers from the infamous BlackCat ransomware gang also known as ALPHV have claimed to have stolen 80GB of data from Reddit. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Reddit Files: Hackers Demand $4.5M Ransom and API Access Waiver...

Black Cat ransomware group wants $4.5m from Reddit or will leak stolen files

The ramifications of a Reddit breach which occurred back in February are now being felt, with the attackers threatening to leak the stolen data. The February attack, billed as a "sophisticated phishing campaign" by Reddit, involved an attempt to swipe credentials and two-factor authentication...

Disclosed Hong Kong Identity Number

A Hong Kong Identity Number HKID number is a personally identifiable number that is allocated during the issuance of a Honk Kong Identity Card. A stolen or leaked HKID number can lead to a compromise, and/or the theft of the affected individuals identity. WAS has discovered an HKID number located...

Data Breach at New BreachForums: 4,000 members’ data leaked

By Waqas BreachForums is a recently resurfaced alternative to the popular hacker and cybercrime forum, Breach Forums, which is now defunct. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Data Breach at New BreachForums: 4,000 members’ data leaked...

Data Breach at New BreachForums: 4,000 members’ data leaked

By Waqas BreachForums is a recently resurfaced alternative to the popular hacker and cybercrime forum, Breach Forums, which is now defunct. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Data Breach at New BreachForums: 4,000 members data leaked...

CVE-2023-32754

CVE-2023-32754 affects Thinking Software Efence, where the login function has insufficient input validation, enabling an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL commands. The intended impact reported is access, modification, or deletion of database content. Connected sources consi...

Attack Surface Management Strategies

As organizations shift to the cloud in droves, their digital attack surface continues to rapidly expand. We explore how proactive cyber risk management can help harden your defenses and reduce the likelihood of an attack or breach...