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Ransomware Gang Leaks Data From Stanford, Maryland Universities Personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California was leaked online by the Clop ransomware group. The threat actors obtained the documents after hacking the universities’ Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) software used to share and store sensitive information.
Microsoft Outage Caused By Overloaded Azure DNS Servers Microsoft has revealed that Thursday’s worldwide outage was caused by a code defect that allowed the Azure DNS service to become overwhelmed and not respond to DNS queries. At approximately 5:21 PM EST on Thursday, Microsoft experienced a global outage that prevented users from accessing or signing
GitHub Actions Being Actively Abused To Mine Cryptocurrency On GitHub Servers GitHub Actions is currently being abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency using GitHub’s servers in an automated attack. GitHub Actions is a CI/CD solution that makes it easy to automate all your software workflows and setup periodic tasks. The particular attack adds malicious GitHub Actions code to repositories forked
Brown University Hit By Cyberattack, Some Systems Still Offline Brown University, a private US research university, had to disable systems and cut connections to the data center after suffering a cyberattack on Tuesday. The Ivy League school’s IT staff said the attack focused on the university’s Windows-based devices and asked faculty and staff to switch