Bhushan Akolkar reports: Although the cryptocurrency markets have progressed significantly bridge attacks and hacks continue to plague the market due to bad players. In a concerning development, Orbit Bridge, a prominent cross-chain bridge protocol, has experienced a notable outflow of $81.5 million across various cryptocurrencies, signaling a potential major hack. On December 31st, an anonymous…
Theft of Vancouver rape crisis centre server containing sensitive data raises privacy concerns
Yasmine Ghania and Moira Wyton report: Cybersecurity experts are warning of “significant” data privacy risks after a Vancouver rape crisis centre told clients and donors a computer server containing their sensitive personal information and banking details was stolen from its office last month. The Dec. 3 break-in at Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre’s new downtown office is…
The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2023
Lawrence Abrams writes: 2023 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities. Some stories, though, were more impactful or popular with our 22 million readers than others. Below are fourteen of what BleepingComputer believes are the most impactful cybersecurity stories of 2023, with…
Happy New Year 2024
On January 1, 2009, DataBreaches posted its first “Happy New Year” post. If you had asked me to predict if I’d still be posting breaches on this site 15 years later, I would have laughed. And yet, here I am and here we still are, with more than 34,500 posts on this site. Every year,…
ChatGPT-aided ransomware in China results in four arrests as AI raises cybersecurity concerns
Coco Feng reports: Four cyber attackers in China have been arrested for developing ransomware with the help of ChatGPT, the first such case in the country involving the popular chatbot that is not officially available locally. The attack was first reported by an unidentified company in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, which had its systems…
New Black Basta decryptor exploits ransomware flaw to recover files encrypted between November 2022 earlier this month
Lawrence Abrams reports: Researchers have created a decryptor that exploits a flaw in Black Basta ransomware, allowing victims to recover their files for free. The decryptor allows Black Basta victims from November 2022 to this month to potentially recover their files for free. However, BleepingComputer has learned that the Black Basta developers fixed the bug…