The City of Helsinki suffered a data breach that impacted tens of thousands of students, guardians, and personnel. The Police of Finland is investigating a data breach suffered by the City of Helsinki, the security breach occurred during the night…
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Russian hackers defaced local British news sites
A group of hackers that defines itself as “first-class Russian hackers” claims the defacement of hundreds of local and regional British newspaper websites. A group claiming to be “first-class Russian hackers” defaced numerous local and regional British newspaper websites owned…
Australian Firstmac Limited disclosed a data breach after cyber attack
Firstmac Limited disclosed a data breach after the new Embargo extortion group leaked over 500GB of data allegedly stolen from the company. Firstmac Limited, one of the largest non-bank lenders in Australia, disclosed a data breach. Firstmac Limited is an Australian…
Pro-Russia hackers targeted Kosovo’s government websites
Pro-Russia hackers targeted government websites in Kosovo in retaliation for the government’s support to Ukraine with military equipment. Pro-Russia hackers targeted Kosovo government websites, including the websites of the president and prime minister, with DDoS attacks. The attacks are a…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 471 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Ohio…
As of May 2024, Black Basta ransomware affiliates hacked over 500 organizations worldwide
Black Basta ransomware affiliates have breached over 500 organizations between April 2022 and May 2024, FBI and CISA reported. The FBI, CISA, HHS, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) regarding the Black Basta ransomware activity as part…
Ohio Lottery data breach impacted over 538,000 individuals
The cyber attack on the Ohio Lottery on Christmas Eve exposed the personal data of over 538,000 individuals. On Christmas Eve, a cyberattack targeting the Ohio Lottery resulted in the exposure of personal data belonging to 538,959 individuals. The organization…
Notorius threat actor IntelBroker claims the hack of the Europol
Notorius threat actor IntelBroker claims that Europol has suffered a data breach that exposed FOUO and other classified data. The threat actor IntelBroker announced on the cybercrime forum Breach the hack of the European law enforcement agency Europol. The hacker…
A cyberattack hit the US healthcare giant Ascension
A cyberattack hit the US Healthcare giant Ascension and is causing disruption of the systems at hospitals in the country. Ascension is one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, ranking second in the United States by the number of hospitals as of…
Russia-linked APT28 targets government Polish institutions
CERT Polska warns of a large-scale malware campaign against Polish government institutions conducted by Russia-linked APT28. CERT Polska and CSIRT MON teams issued a warning about a large-scale malware campaign targeting Polish government institutions, allegedly orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT28…
Google fixes fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year
Since the start of the year, Google released an update to fix the fifth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser. Google this week released security updates to address a zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-467, in Chrome browser. The…
Citrix warns customers to update PuTTY version installed on their XenCenter system manually
Citrix urges customers to manually address a PuTTY SSH client flaw that could allow attackers to steal a XenCenter admin’s private SSH key. Versions of XenCenter for Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1 LTSR used PuTTY, a third-party component, for SSH connections…
Dell discloses data breach impacting millions of customers
Dell disclosed a security breach that exposed millions of customers’ names and physical mailing addresses. IT giant Dell suffered a data breach exposing customers’ names and physical addresses, the company notified impacted individuals. The company launched an investigation into the…
Mirai botnet also spreads through the exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure bugs
Threat actors exploit recently disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerabilities to deploy the Mirai botnet. Researchers from Juniper Threat Labs reported that threat actors are exploiting recently disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 to drop the payload…
Zscaler is investigating data breach claims
Cybersecurity firm Zscaler is investigating claims of a data breach after hackers offered access to its network. Cybersecurity firm Zscaler is investigating allegations of a data breach following reports that threat actors are offering for sale access to its network.…
Experts warn of two BIG-IP Next Central Manager flaws that allow device takeover
Two high-severity vulnerabilities in BIG-IP Next Central Manager can be exploited to gain admin control and create hidden accounts on any managed assets. F5 has addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-26026 and CVE-2024-21793, in BIG-IP Next Central Manager…
LockBit gang claimed responsibility for the attack on City of Wichita
The LockBit ransomware group has added the City of Wichita to its Tor leak site and threatened to publish stolen data. Last week, the City of Wichita, Kansas, was the victim of a ransomware attack and shut down its network…
New TunnelVision technique can bypass the VPN encapsulation
TunnelVision is a new VPN bypass technique that enables threat actors to spy on users’ traffic bypassing the VPN encapsulation. Leviathan Security researchers recently identified a novel attack technique, dubbed TunnelVision, to bypass VPN encapsulation. A threat actor can use…
LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin actively exploited in the wild
Threat actors are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress to take over web sites. WPScan researchers reported that threat actors are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress. LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress…
Most Tinyproxy Instances are potentially vulnerable to flaw CVE-2023-49606
A critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Tinyproxy service potentially impacted 50,000 Internet-Exposing hosts. Researchers from Cisco Talos reported a use-after-free vulnerability in the HTTP Connection Headers parsing of Tinyproxy 1.11.1 and Tinyproxy 1.10.0. The issue is tracked as CVE-2023-49606…