T-Mobile Faces Yet Another Data Breach

T-Mobile USA has reported a data breach – its fourth in three years. The wireless carrier disclosed the breach last week via its website, saying that it detected and shut down “malicious, unauthorized access to some information” related to T-Mobile accounts. Specifically, that data consisted of...

A week in security (December 28 – January 3)

First off we would like to wish all our readers a happy and secure 2021! Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we presented an overview of developments in the SearchDimension hijackers, we looked at the most enticing cyberattacks of 2020, and we also looked back at the strangest cybersecurity events of...

T-Mobile confirms another data breach exposing user call records, phone numbers

By Deeba Ahmed T-Mobile revealed attackers accessed its Customer proprietary network information CPNI, putting the private data of hundreds of thousands of customers at risk. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: T-Mobile confirms another data breach exposing user call records,...

Italy’s Ho-Mobile database with 2.5m accounts allegedly stolen, sold

By Sudais Asif Apparently, the personal data of over 2.5 million Ho-Mobile's customers is being sold on a dark web hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Italys Ho-Mobile database with 2.5m accounts allegedly stolen, sold...

The Advantages and Risks of Serverless Computing

Organizations are increasingly embracing serverless computing for its convenience and cost-effectiveness. But many IT teams are blindly embracing this innovation in cloud technology without consulting their security peers. As a result, we can expect to see a growing number of cyber-attacks in thi...

Japanese Aerospace Firm Kawasaki Warns of Data Breach

Japanese aerospace company Kawasaki Heavy Industries on Monday warned of a security incident that may have led to unauthorized access of customer data. According to the company’s data breach notification, it first discovered unauthorized parties accessing a server in Japan, from an overseas offic...

Police Arrest 21 WeLeakInfo Customers Who Bought Breached Personal Data

21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfo.com, a now-defunct online service that had been previously selling access to data hacked from other websites. The suspects used stolen personal credentials to commit further cyber...

CVE-2020-24673

CVE-2020-24673 affects S+ Operations and S+ Historian. The vulnerability is a SQL injection that can allow an attacker to read sensitive data, modify data (Insert/Update/Delete), perform database administration operations (e.g., shutdown the DBMS), recover files from the DBMS file system, and pot...

Data Privacy – Now’s the Time for the US to Catch Up

The recent Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, may have highlighted to many Americans just what happens to the wealth of personal information they regularly - and willingly - share online. It may be especially concerning, then, to know that companies in the United States aren’t required by...

Hacker Dumps Crypto Wallet Customer Data; Active Attacks Follow

On Monday a hacker dumped sensitive data stolen earlier this year from the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet’s website. The data was put up for grabs on sites frequented by criminals. And in a twist that surprised no one, the data is now actively being exploited in phishing campaigns. Researchers at...

Ledger data breach: Hacker leaks stolen database on hacker forum

By Waqas Ledger was involved in a data breach in July 2020 and now a hacker has leaked the data that was stolen 5 months ago. Here's what happened. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ledger data breach: Hacker leaks stolen database on hacker forum...

Insider Threats: What Are They, Really?

What an insider threat really is The idea of an “insider threat” sounds like some sort of double agent hiding away in a cubicle—someone hired to steal company secrets and take you down. That sounds pretty exciting, but it’s not very accurate. When we talk about insider threats, in reality, we’re...

Threat profile: Egregor ransomware is making a name for itself

What is Egregor? Egregor ransomware is a relatively new ransomware first spotted in September 2020 that seems intent on making its way to the top right now. Egregor is considered a variant of Ransom.Sekhmet based on similarities in obfuscation, API-calls, and the ransom note. As weve reported in...

Spotify Changes Passwords After Another Data Breach

Spotify has alerted users that some of their registration data was inadvertently exposed to a third-party business partner, including emails addresses, preferred display names, passwords, gender and dates of birth. This is at least the third breach in less than a month for the world’s largest...

Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Targeted in EU Cyberattack

Criminals haven’t given up on stealing COVID-19 vaccine data. Yet another cyberattack has been launched — this time, threat actors were able to break into the European Medicines Agency EMA server and access documentation about the vaccine candidate from Pfizer and BioNTech. The breach is just...

Payment Processing Giant TSYS: Ransomware Incident “Immaterial” to Company

Payment card processing giant TSYS suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month. Since then reams of data stolen from the company have been posted online, with the attackers promising to publish more in the coming days. But the company says the malware did not jeopardize card data, and that th...

Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Confirms Cyberattack

Foxconn Technology Group confirmed Tuesday that a November cyberattack knocked some of its U.S. operations offline. The incident is reportedly a ransomware attack carried out by a cybergang attempting to extort $34 million from the global manufacturing powerhouse. “We can confirm that an...

NSA Warns Russian Hacker Exploiting VMware Bug to Breach Corporate Networks

The US National Security Agency NSA on Monday issued an advisory warning that Russian threat actors are leveraging recently disclosed VMware vulnerability to install malware on corporate systems and access protected data. Specifics regarding the identities of the threat actor exploiting the VMwar...

OGUsers hacking forum hacked; user database compromised

By Sudais Asif OGUsers hacking forum was hacked twice in past as well. Here's what happened back then and what happened this time. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OGUsers hacking forum hacked; user database compromised...

RansomExx Ransomware Gang Dumps Stolen Embraer Data: Report

Hackers have dumped sensitive company data that was stolen during a ransomware attack last month on aircraft manufacturer Embraer. The compromised data appeared on a new dark web site created to publish leaked information, according to a published report. The move appears to be a revenge for the...