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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...
CVE-2024-11297 Page Restriction WordPress (WP) – Protect WP Pages/Post <= 1.3.6 - Unauthenticated Content Restriction Bypass to Sensitive Information Exposure
The Page Restriction WordPress WP – Protect WP Pages/Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.6 via the WordPress core search feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from pos...
Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million around $263 million for a 2018 data breach that impacted millions of users in the bloc, in what's the latest financial hit the company has taken for flouting stringent privacy laws. The...
Hackers Demand Ransom in Rhode Island Health System Data Breach
In a major cyberattack, the state of Rhode Island has fallen victim to a security breach potentially exposing the personal information of thousands of residents...
Cicada3301 Ransomware Claims Attack on French Peugeot Dealership
SUMMARY Cicada3301, a ransomware group, has claimed responsibility for a data breach targeting Concession Peugeot concessions.peugeot.fr, a prominent…...
Bitcoin ATM Giant Byte Federal Hit by Hackers, 58,000 Users Impacted
SUMMARY Byte Federal, the US’s largest Bitcoin ATM operator offering around 1,200 Bitcoin ATMs across the country, recently…...
Potential Vulnerabilities Due to Outdated golang.org/x/crypto Dependency in NanoProxy
A security issue was identified in the NanoProxy project related to the golang.org/x/crypto dependency. The project was using an outdated version of this dependency, which potentially exposed the system to security vulnerabilities that have been addressed in subsequent updates. Impact: The specif...
Schneider Electric Modicon Controllers 输入验证错误漏洞
Schneider Electric Modicon Controllers is a Modicon family of programmable logic controllers from Schneider Electric France. An input validation error vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric Modicon Controllers that stems from incorrect input validation. When unauthenticated specially crafted...
Vulnerabilities fixed in Mitel MiCollab
Mitel has fixed vulnerabilities in Mitel MiCollab Specifically the Unified Messaging and Conferencing components. The vulnerabilities are in the way Mitel MiCollab components handle user input. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to user data and system...
A week in security (December 2 – December 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Europol takes down criminal data hub Manson Market in busy month for law enforcement Americans urged to use encrypted messaging after large, ongoing cyberattack Crypto’s rising value likely to bring new wave of scams AI chatbot provider exposes 346,000 customer...
CVE-2024-50402 QTS, QuTS hero
A use of externally-controlled format string vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow remote attackers who have gained administrator access to obtain secret data or modify memory. We have already fixed the...
AI chatbot provider exposes 346,000 customer files, including ID documents, resumes, and medical records
Researchers have discovered a huge Google Cloud Storage bucket, found freely accessible on the internet and containing a treasure trove of personal information. AI startup WotNot provides companies with the ability to create their own customized chatbot. The company reportedly has 3,000 customers...
Exploit for SQL Injection in Paloaltonetworks Expedition
CVE-2024-9465: Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability in...
Medical testing company LifeLabs failed to protect customer data, report finds
In 2019, a ransomware attack hit LifeLabs, a Canadian medical testing company. The ransomware encrypted the lab results of 15 million Canadians, and personally identifiable information PII of 8.6 million people was stolen. After noticing the attack, LifeLabs informed its customers and the Canadia...