Alden Tabac reports: A zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Chrome web browser was discovered on July 1 when it was used to target journalists in the Middle East, according to cybersecurity company Avast. The majority of the attacks took place in Lebanon. “Based on the malware and TTPs used to carry out the attack, we can confidently…
Category: Business Sector
Months after Lopes claimed no anomalies found in their system, hackers were in their system
Lopes is a Brazilian firm that provides real estate services in the form of brokerage and project and financial consulting. Lopes had what appears to be a data breach involving customer data earlier this year. But why the data breach may have continued for months after they denied finding any anomaly in their system is…
Verified Twitter Vulnerability Exposes Data from 5.4 Million Accounts
Sven Taylor reports: A verified Twitter vulnerability from January has been exploited by a threat actor to gain account data allegedly from 5.4 million users. While Twitter has since patched the vulnerability, the database acquired from this exploit is now being sold on a popular hacking forum, posted earlier today. Back in January, a report…
Atlassian: Confluence hardcoded password was leaked, patch now!
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Australian software firm Atlassian warned customers to immediately patch a critical vulnerability that provides remote attackers with hardcoded credentials to log into unpatched Confluence Server and Data Center servers. As the company revealed this week, the Questions for Confluence app (installed on over 8,000 servers) creates a disabledsystemuser account with a hardcoded password to help admins…
T-Mobile agrees to pay $350 million in data breach affecting 77 million users
IANS reports: Telecommunications company T-Mobile has agreed to pay $500 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in a 2021 data breach that impacted nearly 76.6 million users’ data in the US. T-Mobile will put $350 million into a settlement fund to go to lawyers, fees, and the affected, according to the proposed agreement filled on Friday. The company will also…
Uber enters non-prosecution agreement; admits 2016 data breach coverup
SAN FRANCISCO –Uber Technologies, Inc., has entered a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve a criminal investigation into the coverup of a significant data breach suffered by the company in 2016, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan. As part of a non-prosecution…