In June 2023, DataBreaches reported on the arrest of a young Dutch national who was a highly respected “white hat” by day but also a prolific “black hat.” History seems to have repeated itself. Pepijn van der S. has been arrested once again for criminal activities. The Past Predicted the Present Pepijn van der Stap,…
Swati Khandelwal reports: A security breach at Gyazo, Helpfeel’s image-sharing service, exposed about 23.62 million user records, including email addresses and password hashes, the Kyoto-based company said in a notice published Wednesday. It also exposed about 490 million image metadata records, mostly for images from January 2019 or earlier, including the IDs that make up……
Sidney Cohen reports that both cases involved employees of the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority: Medical records are among the most sensitive pieces of information that a government agency keeps on citizens. But these records are not impervious to snooping, as evidenced by two distinct cases reported this year by the Northwest Territories…
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as AISURU/Kimwolf has been attributed to a record-setting attack that peaked at 31.4 Terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted only 35 seconds. Cloudflare, which automatically detected and mitigated the activity, said it’s part of a growing number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks mounted by the botnet in the fourth…
Their headline was, “Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Information from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Conduent as Part of Investigation into Largest Data Breach in U.S. History,” but that seemed terribly wrong. Is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton using AI as for his research? “Largest Data Breach in U.S. History?” Doesn’t he remember……
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the…
Japan Airlines was hit by a cyberattack, causing delays to more than 20 domestic flights, but there was no threat to flight safety. The post Japan Airlines Was Hit by a Cyberattack, Delaying Flights During the Year-End Holiday Season appeared first on SecurityWeek.
