Inti Landauro and Andrei Khalip reports: Santa Barbara Systems, a General Dynamics (GD.N) subsidiary in Spain that is refurbishing Leopard tanks for delivery to Ukraine, suffered a cyberattack on its website, a pro-Russia hacker group said. A spokesperson for General Dynamics confirmed that the defence contractor’s Spanish unit had been targeted in an attempted cyberattack “that…
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Important Security Notice: Data Breach Incident on June 5, 2024 | CoinGecko
From their notice: CoinGecko, the world’s largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator, experienced a data breach on June 5, 2024, through its third-party email platform, GetResponse. How did the data breach happen? On June 5, 2024, around 06:30 AM UTC, we detected unusual activity on our third-party email marketing platform, GetResponse. An attacker had compromised a…
Google Database Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and…
Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack
Euractiv and Reuters report: Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June). “There was a serious cyber attack on the CDU network,” Germany’s Interior Ministry said…
Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers
The Hacker News reports: Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform,” the company said in a joint statement along with CrowdStrike and…
Snowflake data breach claims spark war of words over culpability; researchers may have been trolled
Solomon Klappholz reports: Snowflake has pinned the blame on a series of high-profile data breaches in recent days on customers failing to adequately secure production environments by using two-factor authentication. In a statement on 2 June 2024, Snowflake CISO Brad Jones pushed back on claims that major data breaches involving Ticketmaster and Santander were caused by a vulnerability or misconfiguration in Snowflake’s platform. […] Cyber crime intelligence…