JumpCloud Blames ‘Sophisticated Nation-State’ Actor for Security Breach
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Jul 18, 2023THNData Security / Cyber Attack
A little over a week after JumpCloud reset API keys of customers impacted by a security incident, the company said the intrusion...
Indian Brokerage Firm Upstox Suffers Data Breach Leaking 2.5 Millions Users’ Data
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Online trading and discount brokerage platform Upstox has become the latest Indian company to suffer a security breach of its systems, resulting in the exposure of sensitive...
Data Leaked in Fertility Clinic Ransomware Attack
Reproductive Biology Associates says the data of 38,000 patients may have been compromised in the April cyberattack.Reproductive Biology Associates says the data of approximately 38,000 people may have been...
Ex-NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Data to Russia
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Oct 24, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Data Safety
A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of attempting to transmit classified...
Lovers’ Spat? North Korea Backdoors Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry
North Korean state hackers appear to be spying on Russia, by planting a backdoor inside of bespoke, internal government software.In mid-January 2024, a sample of the Konni backdoor was...
FBI Takes Down BlackCat Ransomware, Releases Free Decryption Tool
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Dec 19, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Cybercrime
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation and released a decryption tool that more than 500...
U.S. State Government Network Breached via Former Employee’s Account
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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomCybersecurity / Data Breach
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed state government organization's network environment was compromised via an administrator...
Infrastructure Cyberattacks, AI-Powered Threats Pummel Africa
Most major economies in Africa experienced fewer overall cyber threats in 2023, but there were some dramatic exceptions: Kenya suffered a 68% rise in ransomware attacks, while South Africa...
How Hackers Phish for Your Users’ Credentials and Sell Them
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Nov 28, 2023The Hacker NewsCybercrime / Breach Prevention
Account credentials, a popular initial access vector, have become a valuable commodity in cybercrime. As a result, a single set of...
