Bill Toulas reports: Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team issued a warning earlier today about the Russian state-sponsored actor APT28 (aka “Fancybear” or “Strontium”) actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts and steal sensitive information. The targeted entities include government, energy, transportation, and other key organizations in the United States, Europe, and the…
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Britain dismisses report claiming Sellafield nuclear site hacking, says no malware exists on our system
FirstPost reports: Hours after The Guardian report claimed that UK’s most hazardous nuclear site Sellafield has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, Britain on Monday said that it has no records or evidence to suggest that networks were compromised. “Our monitoring systems are robust and we have a high degree of…
23andMe data breach: Hackers accessed data of 6.9 million users
Catherine Stoddard reports: 23andMe, a company that does genetic testing and traces ancestry through shared DNA, confirmed to FOX TV Stations on Monday that hackers accessed personal data of about 0.1% of customers, which amounts to roughly 14,000 people who have used 23andMe. Hackers were able to breach those accounts because the customers had used the same username…
AlphV claims they have started contacting some of Tipalti’s clients (1)
Following up on a somewhat atypical strategy to monetize an alleged attack on Tipalti, AlphV updated their leak site post today. It now reads: We are systematically reaching out to affected clients of Tipalti, the first batch (consisting of organizations with the most data exfiltrated), have been sent communications requesting initial contact. We will immediately…
Research: Privacy as Pretense: Empirically Mapping the Gap Between Legislative & Judicial Protections of Privacy
Abstract While many statutes recognize that violations of privacy cause harm—and some even provide for private rights of action to enforce privacy rights—scholars have speculated that the judicial doctrine of Article III standing could create a procedural hurdle to remedying privacy harms. This empirical study maps the extent of that hurdle by investigating the data…
What it means — CitrixBleed ransomware group woes grow as over 60 credit unions, hospitals, financial services and more breached in US.
Kevin Beaumont writes: How CitrixBleed vulnerablity in Netscale has become the cybersecurity challenge of 2023. Credit union technology firm Trellance owns Ongoing Operations LLC, and provides a platform called Fedcomp — used by double digit number of other credit unions across the United States. This Fedcomp platform was not patched for CitrixBleed, as no Netscaler…