Tag: Cyberattack

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British police arrest seven Lapsus$ suspects

British police arrest seven Lapsus$ suspects

British police arrested seven suspects in connection to Lapsus$'s attacks on Okta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung. Reuters reports that the suspects are aged between 16 and 21. Among the suspects is Lapsus$'s alleged 16-year-old mastermind. Family members of the young hacker declined to comment. ... Read more

date2 years ago
Okta confirms breach: up to 366 customers affected by Lapsus$

Okta confirms breach: up to 366 customers affected by Lapsus$

Lapsus$ caused a data breach at authentication specialist Okta. The data of 366 customers is at stake. Okta confirmed the incident today. On Monday, Lapsus$ shared screenshots of an internal Okta admin account. The crime group claimed to have access to customer accounts. Today, the claim appears... Read more

date2 years ago
‘Cyberattacks were increasingly frequent and complex in 2021’

‘Cyberattacks were increasingly frequent and complex in 2021’

Both the volume and complexity of cyberattacks increased significantly in the past year. This is concluded in a Cisco security study of 2021. Researchers registered 36 percent more attacks than in 2020. Respondents were most affected by ransomware, which is seen as the biggest threat. Companies'... Read more

date2 years ago
Lapsus$ cybercriminals claim major cyberattack on Samsung

Lapsus$ cybercriminals claim major cyberattack on Samsung

Hacker group Lapsus$ claims to have stolen 190GB of confidential data from Samsung. This mainly involves source code for Samsung devices. Last week, Lapsus$ claimed to have stolen 1TB of confidential data from Nvidia. In an attempt to back the claim, the criminal group published 20GB of the alle... Read more

date2 years ago
German fuel and oil distributors disrupted by cyberattack

German fuel and oil distributors disrupted by cyberattack

Petrol distributors had to re-route deliveries to keep fuel flowing to consumers and businesses across the country. Oittanking Deutschland GmbH and Mabanaft GmbH & Co KG Group, both subsidiaries of Marquard & Bahls AG, announced that they were victims of a cyberattack over the weeke... Read more

date2 years ago
Acer victim of second cyber-attack, data was stolen

Acer victim of second cyber-attack, data was stolen

Acer has confirmed that its India offices were hit this week after hackers affiliated with the Desorden Group claimed they breached servers and stole 60GB of files. The group sent an email to tech publication ZDNet about the hack, claiming to have customer and corporate business data, as well as fi... Read more

date2 years ago

SolarWinds hackers used Microsoft resellers to breach targets

The supposedly Russian hackers behind the worst cyberattack in U.S. history in years used reseller access to Microsoft services to reach their targets, who were not using the compromised SolarWinds network management software. SolarWinds updates to its Orion software were the known point of entr... Read more

date3 years ago
Trump downplays attack on federal agencies, blames China not Russia

Trump downplays attack on federal agencies, blames China not Russia

Over the weekend, President Trump downplayed a serious cyberattack aimed at several US federal government agencies. Not only is the downplaying of this attack a strange approach to take, but also contradicts what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said about the hack. In a public address, Pompeo lin... Read more

date3 years ago
Machine identity attacks keep growing but are hardly ever reported

Machine identity attacks keep growing but are hardly ever reported

2018 and 2019 have been the worst years on record when it comes to machine identity attacks. This comes from a new report submitted by Venafi, which argues that the machine identity attacks are exploding. The number of reported machine identity attacks grew by 400% in both 2018 and 2019. In the ... Read more

date3 years ago
Mix of of old technologies could make 4G, 5G vulnerable

Mix of of old technologies could make 4G, 5G vulnerable

Attackers can take advantage of a decades-old protocol to exploit 5G networks.  Researchers at Black Hat Asia have shown how hackers can use an exploit in 5G networks because of the platform's reliance on an old protocol from 1975. In the global rush to deploy 5G, security appears to ha... Read more

date3 years ago
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