PetSmart, a major pet retail company, has issued a warning to customers about credential stuffing attacks aimed at breaching their accounts. As a precaution, passwords for accounts logged in during the attack have been reset.
Capita, the British outsourcing company hit by a ransomware attack last March, has reported losing more than £106.6 million ($135.5 million) over the last year — roughly a quarter of which was directly caused by the incident. The company had initially said it expected the incident to cost up to £20 million ($25.4 million) to […]
DTEX Systems, a San Jose, CA-based insider risk management company, raised $50M in Series E funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $138M, was led by CapitalG. In conjunction with the funding, James Luo, partner at CapitalG who will be joining the DTEX board of directors. The company intends to use the funds […]
DTEX Systems, a San Jose, CA-based insider risk management company, raised $50M in Series E funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $138M, was led by CapitalG. In conjunction with the funding, James Luo, partner at CapitalG who will be joining the DTEX board of directors. The company intends to use the funds […]
A utility company controlling the water, electricity and internet for a town in eastern Iowa confirmed that a January ransomware attack led to the exposure of sensitive information from nearly all local residents. Muscatine Power and Water — providing the Muscatine and Fruitland area with internet, TV, phone, water, and electric services for more than […]
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry is urging Chunghwa Telecom, the the island’s largest telecom company, to improve its cybersecurity following a data breach that compromised government-related information. The hackers, reportedly believed to be backed by the Chinese government, made off with 1.7TB of data following the Chunghwa compromise and have put it all up for sale on […]
A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts. The Asian technology and internet company YX International manufactures cellular networking equipment and provides SMS text message routing […]
The company attributed the infection to software adjustments made by developers to reduce boot times, which inadvertently affected network settings and omitted digital signatures.
The company has initiated containment measures, enlisted the help of law enforcement and cybersecurity experts, and is currently investigating the incident, with no confirmation yet on the impact to their finances or operations.