Lawrence Abrams reports: Canadian business process outsourcing giant Telus Digital has confirmed it suffered a security incident after threat actors claimed to have stolen nearly 1 petabyte of data from the company in a multi-month breach. Telus Digital is the digital services and business process outsourcing (BPO) arm of Canadian telecommunications provider Telus, providing customer support,…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2025-32462 (CVSS score: 2.8) – Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file…
Jonathan Greig reports: The U.S. State Department said they were seeking information on Iranian hackers who they accused of targeting critical infrastructure using a strain of malware deployed against industrial control systems. U.S. officials are offering up to $10 million for details on a hacker affiliated with the group called CyberAv3ngers that gained prominence in…
New research has uncovered continued risk from a known security weakness in Microsoft’s Entra ID, potentially enabling malicious actors to achieve account takeovers in susceptible software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Identity security company Semperis, in an analysis of 104 SaaS applications, found nine of them to be vulnerable to Entra ID cross-tenant nOAuth abuse. First disclosed by
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added three security flaws impacting Citrix Session Recording and Git to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2024-8068 (CVSS score: 5.1) – An improper privilege management vulnerability in Citrix Session Recording
On June 10, the Everest Group added a listing for Avantic Medical Lab to its leak site, accompanied by a one-week countdown clock and four screenshots containing patient information as proof of the claims. When the attack first occurred, and whether Everest had contacted Avantic before June 10, is unknown to DataBreaches, but on June…
Hayley Steele and Gregory Szewczyk of Ballard Spahr write: A new bill introduced in Connecticut—Connecticut Senate Bill 117, An Act Concerning Breaches of Security Involving Electronic Personal Information—would create mandatory forensic examination requirements for entities that experience a “massive breach of security,” defined as a data breach affecting at least 100,000 Connecticut residents, and imposes……
