Bill Toulas reported this yesterday: Coca-Cola, the world’s largest soft drinks maker, has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that it is aware of the reports about a cyberattack on its network and is currently investigating the claims. The American beverage giant has started to investigate after the Stormous gang said that it successfully breached some…
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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police
On April 20, DataBreaches reported claims that a security researcher had been scared away after threat actors allegedly obtained his details from Twitter by using a fraudulent Emergency Data Request. Twitter has yet to respond to numerous inquiries from the media as to whether that actually happened, but there is no doubt that fake law…
Over 300,000 Internet-Exposed Databases Identified in 2021
Ionut Arghire reports: Cybersecurity firm Group-IB identified more than 91,000 publicly-exposed databases in the first quarter of 2022, significantly more than in the previous year. In 2021, the firm discovered a total of 308,000 exposed databases, with more than 165,000 of them found in the second half of the year. Most of the exposed databases use…
Cloudflare Detects One Of The Largest DDoS Attacks On Record Targeting Crypto Platform
Jonathan Greig reports: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that has been recorded to date. Cloudflare said it detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack earlier this month — making it one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record….
Data Breach Disrupts UK Army Recruitment
Sarah Coble reports: The British Army’s online recruitment portal has been offline for more than a month following a data breach. Officials shut the computerized enrollment system down in the middle of March as a precaution after the personal data of more than 100 army recruits was found being offered for sale on the dark…
FL: St. Mary’s and Good Samaritan hospitals suffered hack, company says
Andrew Lofholm reports: Good Samaritan and the St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach are among the Tenet-owned hospitals around the country that were hacked recently, crippling their phone and computer systems. CBS12 News broke the story last Thursday when the company reported it was experiencing some sort of “network outage.” Nurses told CBS12 News they…