Have I Been Pwned Adds 441K Accounts Stolen by RedLine Malware The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service now lets you check if your email and password are one of 441,000 accounts stolen in an information-stealing campaign using RedLine malware. RedLine is currently the most widely used information-stealing Read more…
University Loses 77TB of Research Data Due to Backup Error The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer. The incident occurred between December 14 and 16, 2021, and resulted in 34 million files from 14 research groups Read more…
Firmware Attack can Drop Persistent Malware in Hidden SSD Area Korean researchers have developed a set of attacks against some solid-state drives (SSDs) that could allow planting malware in a location that’s beyond the reach of the user and security solutions. The attack models are for drives with flex capacity Read more…
Twitter Account of FBI’s Fake Chat App, ANOM Seen Trolling Today The Twitter account previously associated with the ANOM chat app is posting frivolous tweets this week. But, is it an account hijack, as some may wonder? Perhaps not. ANOM was a fake encrypted messaging platform created as part of a global sting Read more…
Silent Danger: One in Five Aged Domains is Malicious, Risky, or Unsafe The number of malicious dormant domains is on the rise, and as researchers warn, roughly 22.3% of strategically aged domains pose some form of danger. This was a realization that struck analysts when it was revealed that the SolarWinds Read more…
Ransomware Gang Coughs Up Decryptor After Realizing they Hit the Police The AvosLocker ransomware operation provided a free decryptor after learning they encrypted a US government agency. Last month, a US police department was breached by AvosLocker, who encrypted devices and stole data during the attack. However, according to a Read more…
T-Mobile Says New Data Breach Caused by SIM Swap Attacks T-Mobile confirmed that recent reports of a new data breach are linked to notifications sent to a “very small number of customers” who fell victim to SIM swap attacks. “We informed a very small number of customers that the SIM Read more…
Microsoft Defender Log4j Scanner Triggers False Positive Alerts Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is currently showing “sensor tampering” alerts linked to the company’s newly deployed Microsoft 365 Defender scanner for Log4j processes. The alerts are reportedly mainly shown on Windows Server 2016 systems and warn of “possible sensor tampering in memory was detected by Read more…
Fintech Firm Hit by Log4j Hack Refuses to Pay $5 million Ransom One of the largest Vietnamese crypto trading platforms, ONUS, recently suffered a cyber attack on its payment system running a vulnerable Log4j version. Soon enough, threat actors approached ONUS to extort a $5 million sum and threatened to publish customer data should ONUS refuse Read more…
The year is about to end, and there’s a lot for us to look back and set as a reminder for us not to do again. As the PDPC strictly monitors data breaches and related endeavors, organizations must make sure that they are kept abreast with the recent decisions and Read more…
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