Cyberhaven and other Chrome extensions were compromised in a supply chain attack targeting Facebook advertising users. The post Several Chrome Extensions Compromised in Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new attack campaign has targeted known Chrome browser extensions, leading to at least 16 extensions being compromised and exposing over 600,000 users to data exposure and credential theft. The attack targeted publishers of browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store via a phishing campaign and used their access permissions to insert malicious code into…
A top White House official said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. The post A 9th Telecoms Firm Has Been Hit by a Massive Chinese Espionage Campaign, the White House Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Kathleen de Villa reports: The Commission on Audit (COA) has called out the National Privacy Commission (NPC) for its “inadequate” information dissemination efforts, as shown by the dismal number of data privacy officers and systems in both the government and the private sector. Despite being compulsory under the law, only 7.7 percent, or 164 of…
Chris Riotta reports: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is ramping up digital efforts to protect Americans in a year that’s witnessed hackers targeting sensitive patient data and major breaches at Ascension and UnitedHealth. HHS is set to unveil a notice of proposed rulemaking requiring healthcare companies to encrypt data, conduct routine compliance…
A high-severity flaw impacting select Four-Faith routers has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as an operating system (OS) command injection bug affecting router models F3x24 and F3x36. The severity of the shortcoming is lower due to…
North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing as recruiters to trick individuals looking for potential job opportunities into
Thanos Pappas reports: Many people worry about hackers stealing their personal data, but sometimes, the worst breaches come not from shadowy cybercriminals but straight from the companies we trust. According to a new report from Germany, the VW Group stored sensitive information for 800,000 electric vehicles from various brands on a poorly secured Amazon cloud—essentially leaving…
In the first of a two-part series exploring tools and frameworks which can help organizations with remediation prioritization, Sophos X-Ops takes a look at the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
There are always a ton of articles at the end of every year recapping what went wrong. Over on TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker and Carly Page have their annual list of breaches handled poorly. This year’s list includes 23andMe, Change Healthcare, Synnovis, Snowflake, Columbus Ohio, Salt Typhoon, Moneygram, and HotTopic. DataBreaches generally agrees with their recap,…
