Bill Toulas reports: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. The Senator started the formal asking by saying that Microsoft should be held “responsible for its…
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Exclusive: High-end fashion retailers Gucci, Balenciaga, Brioni, and Alexander McQueen hit by Salesforce attacks
Those readers who aren’t A-listers (including yours truly) may never have heard of Kering, but you may have heard of their high-end fashion brands: Gucci. Yves Saint Laurent. Bottega Veneta. Balenciaga. Alexander McQueen. Brioni. It is some of those fashion brands that are the subject of this post as they fell prey to attacks by…
Qantas CEO, top executives lose $522,000 in pay for major cyber breach
Angus Whitley reports: Qantas Airways Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Vanessa Hudson and her top leadership team were docked A$800,000 ($522,000) in pay for a cyberbreach that impacted millions of customers, as the airline attempts to show it’s taking a harder line on accountability and governance. Hudson forfeited A$250,000 in compensation, while the airline’s five executive…
Salesloft Drift Breach Rolls Up Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Zscaler, and Others
Jeffrey Burt reports: The ever-widening series of supply chain attacks on Salesforce instances linked to Salesloft’ Drift app has claimed a number of new victims in recent days, including Cloudflare, Palto Alto Networks, and Zscaler. Cybersecurity firms SpyCloud and PagerDuty also said they were hit by the UNC6395 threat group that exploited a vulnerability in…
Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists’ Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn’t Pay Up
Matthew Gault reports: An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets. Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the…
Gmail’s protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false.
From Google’s blog, today, to try to counter headlines about any major security concern: We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are strong and effective. Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we issued a broad warning to all Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue. This is entirely false….