The Russian state-backed hacking group Star Blizzard has expanded its phishing operations this year, using a new technique that makes it easier to infect victims with malware.
The artificial intelligence giant acknowledged it botched its response to the incidents and should have done more to promptly notify and work with the Australian government in the days after it discovered the breaches.
According to Dodo Pizza, the potentially compromised information included customers’ names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and order details.
A spokesperson for the court system told Recorded Future News that the incident did not involve ransomware and the hackers have not issued ransom demands for the stolen data as of Monday.
A vulnerability in a popular line of products from Oracle is being used in a new campaign by the prolific ShinyHunters hacking group, which recently claimed credit for an attack on the FBI’s jobs site.
Incident responders began warning of potential vulnerabilities in NetScaler Gateway products on Saturday before cybersecurity agencies in the Netherlands, U.S. and U.K. released advisories on Sunday confirming vulnerabilities. Citrix itself confirmed eight new vulnerabilities.
A former soldier in the U.S. Army was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to hacking into several telecommunications companies and leaking sensitive records.
Frank Balonis, CISO at Kiteworks, told Recorded Future News that the company “received credible threat intelligence from federal intelligence authorities indicating that a threat actor may attempt to target some Kiteworks systems for customers.”
Security changes include creating an incident response plan for vendor security failings, limiting how much data Labcorp shares with vendors and building an expansive risk management team charged with tracking vendors’ compliance with data security practices.
Researchers are questioning whether an OpenAI agent needed to hack an Australian government health portal to access it, after a review of the website’s archived code found it explicitly directed visitors to an unauthenticated endpoint.
Two executives at a data extraction and digital forensics company that sold several U.S. agencies its software were arrested for allegedly lying about the fact that its technology is made in Russia.
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Telecommunications Cybersecurity and Resilience Act on Thursday, arguing that the new effort was necessary in light of the Salt Typhoon attacks which saw Chinese hackers breach nearly all of the major telecommunications giants in the U.S.
Ardit Kutleshi, 28, was extradited from his home country of Kosovo last year after prosecutors accused him and his older brother of running Rydox — an illicit platform used by cybercriminals to sell stolen personal information, illegal access to devices and other tools for carrying out fraud.
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