I’d called it an “ongoing threat,” but …. Maggie MacAlpine reports: In a concerning development, over 20 school districts across Long Island have fallen victim to cyberattacks, compromising the personal data of more than 10,000 students. According to state education records, 28 incidents were reported in 2024 alone, affecting districts such as Great Neck, Smithtown,…
Zack Whittaker reports: A consumer-grade spyware operation called SpyX was hit by a data breach last year, TechCrunch has learned. The breach reveals that SpyX and two other related mobile apps had records on almost two million people at the time of the breach, including thousands of Apple users. The data breach dates back to…
New research shows that over 4 million systems on the internet, including VPN servers and home routers, are vulnerable to attacks due to tunneling protocol flaws. The post Millions of Internet Hosts Vulnerable to Attacks Due to Tunneling Protocol Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the organization’s servers. The defendant faces up to 15 years in prison. Police officers determined that a 35-year-old native…
Russian organizations have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented Windows spyware called Batavia. The activity, per cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, has been active since July 2024. “The targeted attack begins with bait emails containing malicious links, sent under the pretext of signing a contract,” the Russian company said. “The…
Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a new set of patches for a total of 161 security vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, including three zero-days that have been actively exploited in attacks. Of the 161 flaws, 11 are rated Critical, and 149 are rated Important in severity. One other flaw, a non-Microsoft CVE related to a…
DataBreaches cannot read “Lower Merion School District” without recalling the “Webcamgate” scandal of 2010, when the district was discovered monitoring students remotely in their bedrooms on district-issued MacBooks. At the time, they initially denied any misuse of remote access that was part of a security feature. Now the district is back in local news in…
