Number of data breach victims goes up 1,000%

Nope, that headlines not a typo. Over one thousand percent. The Identity Theft Resource Center ITRC tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an increase of 1,170% over Q2 2023 81,958,874 victims. The ITRC is a national non-profit organization set up with the goal of minimizing the ri...

A week in security (July 1 – July 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ticketmaster hackers release stolen ticket barcodes for Taylor Swift Eras Tour Authy phone numbers accessed by cybercriminals, warns Twilio Affirm says Evolve Bank data breach also compromised some of its customers Prudential Financial data breach impacts 2.5 milli...

Prudential Financial data breach impacts 2.5 million people, not 36,000 as first thought

In February 2024, Prudential Financial reported it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The attack was discovered one day after it started, but not before some 2.5 million people had been impacted by the resulting data breach. As one of the largest insurance companies in the US, Prudential...

prudential-group.gr Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3835534

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31440: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on November 24, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 56046 First Published: 2017 November 27 13:16 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31440 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31217: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on November 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 55794 First Published: 2017 November 7 13:57 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31217 may contain the following files: Name |...