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800,000 Malaysian Voters Compromised

17 Nov 2022

The news organization New Straits Times announced on November 11, 2022, that there had allegedly been a data breach involving 800,000 Malaysian voters’ personal data. “Another data breach has allegedly occurred in Malaysia, this time involving the personal details of 800,000 voters. The 67gb data breach is supposedly from the Election Commission database which is […]

Daixin Team the ransomware and data extortion group Targets Healthcare Sector

10 Nov 2022

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly issued an advisory on October 21, 2022, alerting the public to the fact that since June 2022, the cybercrime group Daixin Team has been actively targeting US businesses, primarily in the healthcare and public […]

Microsoft Storage Location Expose Customers’ Information

1 Nov 2022

One of Microsoft clients’ critical data was exposed due to a storage server configuration error, according to Microsoft Corporation. The misconfiguration, as for the investigation, permitted unauthorized access to some business transaction data from contacts between Microsoft and customers, including planning and provisioning client services. The international IT company safeguarded its server after getting the […]

Throughout Europe, Russian spoofing campaigns are disseminating false information on Ukraine

25 Oct 2022

A significant amount of social media posts and accounts that were spoofing Russian information was taken down by Meta’s security team in September 2022. The disinformation effort using fake websites, according to Meta, was the largest and most intricate Russian operation since the start of the war in Ukraine. The researchers saw a huge network […]

Malware for Windows SideWalk adapted for Linux

6 Oct 2022

It was discovered that a Linux version of the SideWalk backdoor had been developed, allegedly by the state-sponsored organization SparklingGoblin in China (Earth Baku). The SideWalk is a multipurpose backdoor that leverages Cloudflare as its command-and-control (C2) server and Google Docs as a dead-drop resolver. It can also load new modules that are transmitted from […]

Queen Elizabeth II’s death used in credential harvesting

28 Sep 2022

Proofpoint’s Threat Insight Team reveled on 14th September 2022 that threat actors are employing phishing attacks with a “death of Queen Elizabeth II” theme. Users are tricked into visiting malicious websites created for credential harvesting. Proofpoint identified a credential #phish campaign using lures related to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Messages purported to be from […]

Starbucks Suffers Data Breach

23 Sep 2022

The Straits Times published an article on a data breach involving a US coffee shop company Starbucks that affected the personal information of 330,000 Singaporean consumers on September 17, 2022. Starbucks operates 33,833 outlets across 80 nations and is one of the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. Threat actors advertised the database of the […]

Ransomware Rise – All you need to know

16 Sep 2022

What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a form of malware made to prevent users or organizations from accessing files on a computer. In simple terms it encryptsfiles on a device and make them unusable. Cyber attackers put an organization in a situation where paying the ransom is the quickest and least expensive option to recover access […]

Uber internal system breached

16 Sep 2022

Following news that a hacker had gained access to Uber’s network and forced it to shut down various internal communications and engineering systems, the firm stated on Thursday that it is reacting to a cybersecurity incident. The New York Times who first reported on this breached stated, quoting an Uber representative that a hacker infiltrated […]

Customer email addresses of DigitalOcean were compromised by a recent MailChimp breach

14 Sep 2022

A security advisory about a hack on its email service provider MailChimp that had an impact on its clients was just recently published by a security researcher from the cloud hosting company Digital Ocean. To notify consumers of password resets, email confirmations, and product-related alerts, the business engaged this email service provider. “On August 8, […]

SharkBot Malware Returned to Google Play Store

7 Sep 2022

SharkBot malware has returned in a fresh and upgraded edition, according to a post published by security news website Bleeping Computer. The malware started showing up in October 2021 is targeting Android users’ banking credentials. The malware can carry out “overlay attacks, steal data through keylogging, intercept SMS messages, or give threat actors complete remote […]

Last Pass Source Code Exposed in Data Breach

31 Aug 2022

On 25th August 2022, Last pass company published a data breach notification affirming that threat actors had compromised its source code. Around 33 million people and 100,000 businesses are utilizing this product and is one of the largest password management firm in the world. We recently detected unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development […]