SaaS applications are the darlings of the software world. They enable work from anywhere, facilitate collaboration, and offer a cost-effective alternative to owning the software outright. At the same time, the very features that make SaaS apps so embraced – access from anywhere and collaboration – can also be exploited by threat actors. Recently, Adaptive […]
A cyberattack targeted a major Maine healthcare provider’s computer servers over the weekend, leading the company to temporarily take all of its patient records offline. Northern Light Health told News Center Maine that its patient records were not on the affected servers, but they took down all of their servers as a precaution while the […]
Feb 06, 2024NewsroomDark Web / Cybercrime Employment agencies and retail companies chiefly located in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have been targeted by a previously undocumented threat actor known as ResumeLooters since early 2023 with the goal of stealing sensitive data. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said the hacking crew’s activities are geared towards job search platforms and the […]
The Commerce Department has sanctioned several European, Israeli, Russian, and Singaporean companies involved in the trafficking and development of spyware tools used for repression and human rights abuses.
Strategies for recognizing and addressing mental health in cyber security
Tokyo, Feb 5 (EFE).- Classified Japanese diplomatic documents were leaked after Chinese cyberattacks on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2020, a government source has revealed to Kyodo news agency, exposing once again the country’s digital vulnerability. Japanese authorities detected the large-scale attack and the leak of diplomatic telegrams during an unspecified period of Prime […]
An Idaho federal judge on Saturday ruled that a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement action against the data broker Kochava — which the agency asserts sells vast amounts of non-anonymized data belonging to millions of people — may continue, a reversal of a prior ruling to dismiss the case. Privacy advocates consider the court decision […]
Escape’s security research team scanned 189.5 million URLs and found more than 18,000 exposed API secrets. 41% of exposed secrets were highly critical, i.e. could lead to financial risks for the organizations. Exposed API secrets The exposed secrets include hundreds of Stripe, GitHub/GitLab tokens, RSA private keys, OpenAI keys, AWS tokens, Twitch secret keys, cryptocurrency […]
In 2023, HackerOne’s bug bounty data, acquired by Surfshark, a VPN service provider, reveals the crucial role of ethical hackers in safeguarding top government organizations like the US Department of Defense and private companies such as LinkedIn. A study by Surfshark, a VPN service provider, has revealed that ethical hackers, or white hat hackers, played a vital […]