Joanna England reports: Akamai Technologies, the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, has found that bad actors are using a new quadruple extortion tactic in ransomware campaigns, while double extortion remains the most common approach. With ransomware accounting for more than half of the total data breaches in this region…
Dev.ua reports: Hacken, which searches for vulnerabilities in DeFi, NFT, and blockchain applications and produces security reports, itself encountered a major cybersecurity vulnerability that affected the mining of its HAI tokens on the Ethereum and BNB Chain networks. This led to a 98% collapse in the value of HAI. This was reported by The Crypto Times, which notes that a hacker who exploited the Hacken vulnerability…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a variant of a recently disclosed campaign that abuses the TOR network for cryptojacking attacks targeting exposed Docker APIs. Akamai, which discovered the latest activity last month, said it’s designed to block other actors from accessing the Docker API from the internet. The findings build on a prior report from Trend…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new technique that cybercriminals have adopted to bypass social media platform X’s malvertising protections and propagate malicious links using its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Grok. The findings were highlighted by Nati Tal, head of Guardio Labs, in a series of posts on X. The technique has been codenamed Grokking. The…
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. The company disclosed the data breach on Saturday in a legally required filing with Maine’s attorney general, but did not immediately provide a number…
GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and publishing options “in the near future” in response to a recent wave of supply chain attacks targeting the npm ecosystem, including the Shai-Hulud attack. This includes steps to address threats posed by token abuse and self-replicating malware by allowing local publishing with required…
WVNews reports that personal and protected health information of 462,000 Montanans was involved in a significant data breach experienced by Conduent Business Services from October 2024 to January 2025. The state’s Insurance and Securities Commission wants to know why Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSM) didn’t notify the state sooner. The breach came to……
