American Express has issued a data breach notification after one of its service providers experienced unauthorized access to its systems. This has led to the exposure of American Express Card account numbers, names, and card expiration dates.
Epic Games found no evidence of a cyberattack or data theft after the Mogilevich group claimed to have breached their servers. The group offered to sell stolen data for $15,000 but only shared samples with those who proved they had the funds.
A ransomware gang is seeking $3.4 million after attacking a children’s hospital in Chicago, forcing staff to resort to manual processes to provide care to patients. The attack on Lurie Children’s Hospital was announced earlier this month, when officials said they had been forced to take their entire network offline due to an unspecified “cybersecurity […]
Nearly two weeks after detecting a cyberattack on its systems, German battery manufacturer Varta AG still has not restarted production at its plants. In a statement on Thursday, the company said: “There is currently no reliable information on how long it will take to process and resolve the attack or on when production at all […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is investigating a potential breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen HPE credentials and sensitive data and put it up for sale on a hacking forum.
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 […]
A multinational company lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally recreated version of its chief financial officer ordering money transfers in a video conference call, police said. Everyone present on the video calls except the victim […]
Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed a trove of internal data after leaving a private key online that gave “unrestricted access” to the company’s source code, according to the security research firm that discovered it. Shubham Mittal, co-founder and chief technology officer of RedHunt Labs, alerted TechCrunch to the exposure and asked for help in disclosing to the […]
The threat actor tracked as TA866 has resurfaced after a nine-month hiatus with a new large-volume phishing campaign to deliver known malware families such as WasabiSeed and Screenshotter. The campaign, observed earlier this month and blocked by Proofpoint on January 11, 2024, involved sending thousands of invoice-themed emails targeting North America bearing decoy PDF files. […]