Reza abasi notes that there is a new forum called the “Kurd Hacker Forum” that focuses on databreaches in Iran, Syria, and Turkey. The domain was registered January 28, 2026. The forum, which is on the clear net, looks like it has the same format as the classic BreachForums, with the same types of sections…
On February 3, DataBreaches quoted a press release by BakerHostetler about a breach update from DISA Global Solutions that DISA had issued on January 23, 2025. BakerHostetler’s release was subsequently removed from their website, although a copy still currently exists at PublicNow. Of note, in their main takeaways section, BakerHostetler quoted DISA’s update and commented:…
In yet another piece of research, academics from Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have demonstrated that the security guarantees offered by Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) can be bypassed on DDR4 systems to passively decrypt sensitive data. SGX is designed as a hardware feature in Intel server processors that allows applications to be…
DataBreaches should no longer be surprised to see threat actors claim to have hundreds of GB of files from medical entities, but it’s still concerning that entities can have so much data accessed and exfiltrated and yet not detect the attack. For today’s example, we point to Physicians Medical Billing, which was added to LockBit3.0’s…
Researcher Jeremiah Fowler recently discovered an unsecured database with protected health information (PHI) linked to Atrium Health in North Carolina. As reported at WebsitePlanet, there were 21,344 records with a total size of 6.99 GB. The database appeared to be an FTP storage database. Fowler reports: The PDF documents’ metadata indicated that these were “Software…
A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet and use it to conduct power distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The approach has been codenamed Win-DDoS by SafeBreach researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag, who presented their findings at the DEF CON…
Google on Wednesday shipped security updates for its Chrome browser to address three security flaws, including one it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, rated high in severity, is being tracked under the Chromium issue tracker ID “466192044.” Unlike other disclosures, Google has opted to keep information about the CVE…
