CNN reports: Federal court officials said Thursday that the judicial branch is taking steps to improve online security – including for sensitive case documents – after “escalated cyberattacks” aimed at its case management system. “The federal Judiciary is taking additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case documents in response to recent escalated cyberattacks of…
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Scattered Spider has a new Telegram channel to list its attacks
Commenters on reading the new Telegram channel call it “schizo,” “complete chaos,” and “insane.” DataBreaches would just call it “overwhelming.” A new Telegram channel appeared on Friday afternoon with a name conflating three groups: Shiny Hunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsus$. How long it will last before it gets banned remains to be seen, but in…
ShinyHunters sent Google an extortion demand; Shiny comments on current activities
Yesterday morning, DataBreaches woke up to a message on Telegram: Even the NSA can’t stop or identify us anymore. The FBI and everyone else is irrelevant and incompetent as far as we’re concerned :). When DataBreaches asked ShinyHunters if anything in particular had inspired that statement, “Shiny1” responded: I heard the NSA is investigating and…
6.4 million Bouygues Telecom just had their data exposed in a huge data breach – and it’s the second to hit French telecoms operators in a month
Emma Woollacott reports: Bouygues Telecom, France’s third-largest phone carrier, has confirmed a data breach which exposed personal data belonging to millions of customers across the country. The company, which provides mobile, broadband, and digital TV services, said it discovered the breach, affecting 6.4 million of its 27 million customers, earlier this week. It acted quickly…
AU: Privacy watchdog sues Optus over mass data breach in 2022
David Swan reports: Optus is facing a potential mammoth fine after Australia’s privacy watchdog launched civil Federal Court proceedings over a September 2022 cyberattack in which the personal information of nearly 10 million Australians was stolen. During the cyberattack, which was one of the worst in the nation’s history, hackers gained unauthorised access to the…
Google reveals it became one of the Salesforce attack victims in June
Lawrence Abrams reports: In June, Google warned that a threat actor they classify as ‘UNC6040′ is targeting companies’ employees in voice phishing (vishing) social engineering attacks to breach Salesforce instances and download customer data. This data is then used to extort companies into paying a ransom to prevent the data from being leaked. In a brief update…