Uber data theft: Driver info stolen after law firm breached

Uber, yet again, has become a victim of data theft following a third-party breach. This time, threat actors have aimed at the company's law firm, Genova Burns. Data of Uber's drivers may have been swiped during the security incident. According to the letter sent to affected drivers, the firm beca...

Fake ransomware demands payment without actually encrypting files

Fake it till you make it ransomware groups are trying to get rich off the backs of genuine ransomware authors. Why are they "fake it till you make it"? Because they dont actually create ransomware or compromise networks in any way. Theyre simply lying through their teeth and hoping that recipient...

CVE-2023-0967

CVE-2023-0967 affects Bhima 1.27.0. An attacker authenticated with normal user permissions can view data that should be admin-only due to an IDOR-like permission validation flaw. All connected sources consistently describe Bhima 1.27.0 as vulnerable to improper permission checks that expose sensi...

Risk Fact #5: Infrastructure Misconfigurations Open the Door to Ransomware

Qualys Blog Series – Threat Research Unit Report In this last blog of our series describing the top Risk Facts discovered in the 2023 Qualys TruRisk Research Report, we go under the hood to better understand Risk Fact 5: Infrastructure misconfigurations open the door to ransomware Misconfiguratio...

Italian Watchdog Bans OpenAI's ChatGPT Over Data Protection Concerns

The Italian data protection watchdog, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali aka Garante, has imposed a temporary ban of OpenAI's ChatGPT service in the country, citing data protection concerns. To that end, it has ordered the company to stop processing users' data with immediate effect,...

Italian Watchdog Bans OpenAI's ChatGPT Over Data Protection Concerns

The Italian data protection watchdog, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali aka Garante, has imposed a temporary ban of OpenAI's ChatGPT service in the country, citing data protection concerns. To that end, it has ordered the company to stop processing users' data with immediate effect,...

Deep Dive Into 6 Key Steps to Accelerate Your Incident Response

Organizations rely on Incident response to ensure they are immediately aware of security incidents, allowing for quick action to minimize damage. They also aim to avoid follow on attacks or future related incidents. The SANS Institute provides research and education on information security. In th...

"BingBang" flaw enabled altering of Bing search results, account takeover

Researchers from Wiz have discovered a way to allow for search engine manipulation and account takeover. The research in question focuses on several Microsoft applications, with everything stemming from a new type of attack aimed at Azure Active Directory. Azure Active Directory is a single sign-...

The vulnerability of the coders/pcl.c component in the console-based graphic editor ImageMagick allows a hacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the coders/pcl.c component of the console-based image editing tool ImageMagick is related to a potential integer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures...

20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker "pompompurin," faces a maximum penalty of up to...

Latitude Financial Data Breach: 14 Million Customers Affected

By Waqas The CEO of Latitude Financial, Ahmed Fahour, has expressed disappointment in the incident and apologized unreservedly to customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Latitude Financial Data Breach: 14 Million Customers Affected...

A week in security (March 20 - 26)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: How to avoid potentially unwanted programs "ViLE" members posed as police officers and extorted victims Google reveals 18 chip vulnerabilities threatening mobile, wearables, vehicles A look at a Magecart skimmer using the Hunter obfuscator The NBA tells fans about...

India Shut Down Mobile Internet in Punjab Amid Manhunt for Amritpal Singh

Plus: The “Clop” gang's ransomware spree, the DC Health Link breach comes into focus, and more...

ChatGPT Bug Exposed Payment Details of Paid Users

By Habiba Rashid OpenAI has apologized and reached out to affected users about the potential data breach. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ChatGPT Bug Exposed Payment Details of Paid Users...

BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

On March 15, 2023 US law enforcement arrested a man from New York who was accused of being the administrator of BreachForums, a well-known and probably the largest Dark Web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold. At first, a new administrator rose to the occasion and said they were...

The NBA tells fans about data breach

The National Basketball Association NBA has notified its fans they may be affected by a data breach in a third-party service the organization uses. For now, it is safe to assume that the attacker only obtained names and email addresses, but the NBA has hired the services of external cybersecurity...

Unauthenticated Access to Users PII

Description A Unauthorized/Unauthenticated Attacker can access PII data of all the Users. Some of the PII leaked are: first name, last name, email, username, IP address, twofactorsecret, twofactorrecoverycodes Proof of Concept http://localhost/api/user It shows you details of all the users...

Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device -- unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection. Heres...

"ViLE" members posed as police officers and extorted victims

Two men have been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer intrusions after they allegedly extorted victims by threatening to publish their personal information online--a practice known as doxxing. In a press release, the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York...

Pompompurin Unmasked: Infamous BreachForums Mastermind Arrested in New York

U.S. law enforcement authorities have arrested a 21-year-old New York man in connection with running the infamous BreachForums hacking forum under the online alias "Pompompurin." The development, first reported by Bloomberg Law, comes after News 12 Westchester, earlier this week, said that federa...