Over the years, DataBreaches has been contacted by many people with requests for help notifying entities of data leaks or breaches. Some of the people who contact this site are cybercriminals, hoping to put pressure on their victims. Others are researchers who are frustrated by their attempts at responsible disclosure. When it’s a “blackhat” contacting…
Astra Security and Invary have received new funding to fuel development of their vulnerability scanning and runtime security solutions. The post Astra, Invary Raise Millions for AI-Powered Pentesting, Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments. “Unlike traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor typically deploys malware to encrypt critical files across endpoints within the compromised network and then negotiates for a decryption key,
Ever felt like your team is stuck in a constant battle? Developers rush to add new features, while security folks worry about vulnerabilities. What if you could bring both sides together without sacrificing one for the other? We invite you to our upcoming webinar, “Opening the Fast Lane for Secure Deployments.” This isn’t another tech…
Kathryn Rattigan of Robinson + Cole writes: Pennsylvania-based Chord Specialty Dental Partners is under fire after a September 2024 data breach compromised the personal information of over 173,000 individuals. At least seven proposed class action lawsuits have been filed in federal courts in Tennessee and Pennsylvania, alleging the company failed to secure and protect patient…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks. “Several widely used extensions […] unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple HTTP,” Yuanjing Guo, a security researcher in the Symantec’s Security Technology and Response
Daniel Payne reports: The U.S. Department of Justice says a recent data breach of a California consulting firm exposed data of Catholic clergy abuse survivors in nearly a dozen bankruptcy lawsuits. In a May 6 letter addressed to attorneys at law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, the Justice Department’s Nan Eitel, the associate general counsel for Chapter…
