One unfortunate holiday tradition seems to be that ransomware groups will attack at holiday times when entities are less likely to have full IT support from staff. One attack, however, reportedly started last week. Ed Blazina reports: What Pittsburgh Regional Transit last week thought was a computer glitch that affected rail service has turned out…
This is a multi-part interview with the individual known as “Nam3L3ss” who leaked more than 100 databases on a popular hacking forum and will soon be leaking many more. Read the Preface. In Part 1, we talked about his background and what motivated him to do what he does. In Part 2, we talked about…
Darktrace has announced the proposed acquisition of UK-based incident investigation firm Cado Security, reportedly for up to $100 million. The post Darktrace to Acquire Incident Investigation Firm Cado Security 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…
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or nothing in particular, we hope you have holidays filled with some good cheer, laughter, love, and peace. DataBreaches.net will resume posting news later today.
Christopher Brown reports: PowerSchool Holdings Inc. is facing three federal lawsuits alleging the education software provider negligently failed to protect the personal information of students, parents, and teachers that was exposed in a December data breach. Sheilah Buack-Shelton, Tyler Baker, and Kimberly Kinney alleged in separate complaints that PowerSchool breached its duties under common law,…
The developers of Rspack have revealed that two of their npm packages, @rspack/core and @rspack/cli, were compromised in a software supply chain attack that allowed a malicious actor to publish malicious versions to the official package registry with cryptocurrency mining malware. Following the discovery, versions 1.1.7 of both libraries have been unpublished from the npm…
