Data Breaches
LastPass Hack: Engineer’s Failure to Update Plex Software Led to Massive Data Breach
The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in what's a sobering reminder of the dangers of failing to keep software up-to-date. The embattled password management service last week revealed how...
Reddit Suffers Security Breach Exposing Internal Documents and Source Code
Popular social news aggregation platform Reddit has disclosed that it was the victim of a security incident that enabled unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. The company blamed it on...
Twitter Denies Hacking Claims, Assures Leaked User Data Not from its System
Twitter on Wednesday said that its investigation found "no evidence" that users' data sold online was obtained by exploiting any security vulnerabilities in its systems. "Based on information and intel analyzed to investigate the issue, there is no evidence that the...
CISA Warns of Daixin Team Hackers Targeting Health Organizations With Ransomware
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have published a joint advisory warning of attacks perpetrated by a cybercrime gang known as the Daixin Team primarily targeting the healthcare sector in the…
Omnicell Healthcare Company Confirms Ransomware Incident
In a US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) 8-K filing, Omnicell, the healthcare technology provider, revealed that some of its products, services, and internal systems were affected by ransomware. Upon…
Former Uber Security Chief Found Guilty of Data Breach Coverup
A U.S. federal court jury has found former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan guilty of not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators and attempting…
How Secrets Lurking in Source Code Lead to Major Breaches
If one word could sum up the 2021 infosecurity year (well, actually three), it would be these: "supply chain attack". A software supply chain attack happens when hackers manipulate the code in third-party software components to compromise the 'downstream' applications...
GitHub Notifies Victims Whose Private Data Was Accessed Using OAuth Tokens
GitHub on Monday noted that it had notified all victims of an attack campaign, which involved an unauthorized party downloading private repository contents by taking advantage of third-party OAuth user tokens maintained by Heroku and Travis CI. "Customers should also...
Former Amazon Employee Found Guilty in 2019 Capital One Data Breach
A 36-year-old former Amazon employee was convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in the U.S. for her role in the theft of personal data of no fewer than 100 million people in the 2019 Capital One breach. Paige Thompson, who operated under the online alias...
RIG Exploit Kit Now Infects Victims’ PCs With Dridex Instead of Raccoon Stealer
The operators behind the Rig Exploit Kit have swapped the Raccoon Stealer malware for the Dridex financial trojan as part of an ongoing campaign that commenced in January 2022. The switch in modus operandi, spotted by Romanian company Bitdefender, comes in the wake of...