Myind reports: India’s state-owned telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), experienced a substantial data breach, placing the personal information of thousands of users at risk. Reports indicated that a threat actor on the dark web had claimed possession of critical information related to BSNL’s fiber and landline users. According to a report by ET,…
Category: Breach Incidents
AbbVie files trade secrets suit against Adcentrx and former employee
Nicole DeFeudis reports: AbbVie accused a former employee and a rival oncology developer of stealing trade secrets about its antibody-drug conjugate programs. The pharma giant on Friday filed suit in California federal court against Adcentrx and scientist Danny Lee, who left AbbVie in 2021 to join Adcentrx. The complaint alleges that Lee was “in a…
Health data breaches hit an all-time high in 2023
Katie Palmer reports: Odds are, you’ve gotten at least one of the unnerving letters in your mailbox this year: “We’re writing to inform you of a cybersecurity incident,” it might start. It’s the standard notice many health care organizations are required to provide when your protected health information gets exposed — and in 2023, data…
Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker Arion Kurtaj sentenced to secure hospital for indefinite period
Joe Tidy reports: An 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who has autism, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$. The gang’s attacks on tech giants including Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games cost the firms…
Google discovers another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Google Chrome has released an emergency security fix for a zero-day flaw that has been exploited in the wild. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7024, affects the desktop versions of the browser on Mac, Linux and Windows. It is the eighth actively exploited zero-day in Chrome discovered since the start of 2023. Clément…
The Five Families disrupted after SiegedSec hacked; SiegedSec thrown out, Blog Hijacked (1)
AlphV wasn’t the only group experiencing some disruption this week In August, “The Five Families” announced the collaboration of ThreatSec, SiegedSec, Stormous, BlackForums (now BlackSec), and GhostSec: A group created to establish better unity and connections for everyone in the underground world of the internet, to expand and grow our work and operations. We run…