Cybercrime
Supermarket chain Auchan hit with cyberattack, again
The French supermarket chain Auchan has been hit by a cyberattack, compromising data from loyalty accounts of hundreds of thousands of customers.
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Apple sues former employee for stealing company secrets
Apple is suing Chen Shi, an employee who used to work at the company’s Apple Watch division. Allegedly, he stole highly confidential and sensitive corporate information to hand over to his new employer, Oppo.
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Ransomware attack on healthcare giant DaVita exposed data of nearly 2.7m people
Kidney dialysis behemoth DaVita has confirmed that cybercriminals accessed personal and health data belonging to 2.7 million people during the April ransomware attack.
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Massive Interpol operation takes down 11,500 malicious networks in Africa
From crypto mining to inheritance scams, INTERPOL dismantles 11,500 cybercriminal infrastructures across Africa, arresting 1,200 suspects for scamming $485 million from thousands of victims.
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One million health records exposed in medical marijuana data breach
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unencrypted and non-password-protected database containing 957,434 records.
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Oregon man getting sued for monetizing DDoS attacks with Rapper Bot
Ethan Foltz, a 22-year-old man from Eugene, Oregon, has been charged with conducting large-scale DDoS attacks since 2021.
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Orange Belgium discloses data breach affecting 850,000 customers
Orange Belgium has announced that it discovered a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorized access to personal data from 850,000 customer accounts.
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47,000 people affected by data breach at Business Council of New York State
The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS) has announced that it recently became aware of a security incident.
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Ransomware group deploys deceptive ChatGPT desktop app to create backdoor
A ransomware operation called Storm-2460 is using a legitimate open-source ChatGPT desktop application to devise a modular backdoor called PipeMagic on a victim’s device.
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Russian hackers target Polish hydropower plant again
Russian hackers have once again targeted a small hydropower plant in Poland, with the latest breach disrupting its control systems. It’s the second confirmed attack this year, following an earlier breach in May.
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FBI seizes $2.8M from suspect responsible for Zeppelin ransomware attacks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized over $2.8 million in cryptocurrency from a man who is being suspected of conducting ransomware attacks with the malicious software Zeppelin.
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Nova threatens to release Clinical Diagnostics’ stolen data, even though the ransom was paid
Nova, the group of cybercriminals who stole the medical data of hundreds of thousands of participants in health screenings, is threatening to leak and sell that data.
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Australia’s TPG Telecom confirms cyber incident in iiNet system
Australia's TPG Telecom said on Tuesday it is investigating a cyber incident where an unknown third party secured unauthorized access to an iiNet order management system.
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Data breach at Allianz life reportedly impacts over 1.4M customers
A cyberattack at US insurance firm Allianz Life in July compromised the personal data of 1.4 million customers, according to an update published to the Office of the Maine Attorney General's website.
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District court grants preliminary injunction against FTC for investigating Media Matters
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the District Court of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction, thereby blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Media Matters’ report on advertisements on X.
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Roblox denies allegations of facilitating child abuse on its platform
Online gaming platform Roblox states that it constantly innovates online safety tools to protect and safeguard the tens of millions of people, including children, who play the game on a daily basis.
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UK telecom firm Colt suffers massive ransomware attack
UK telecoms and network services company Colt suffered a cyberattack, causing a multi-day outage.
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Hotels in Italy suffer a potentially massive breach
Tens of thousands of allegedly stolen documents include high-resolution scans of passports and ID cards used by customers during check-in, according to Italian authorities.
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Clinical Diagnostics paid ransom to solve recent data breach, sources claim
Clinical Diagnostics, the laboratory that recently suffered a data breach involving sensitive information of over half a million participants in a health screening, has paid a ransom to the criminals responsible for the incident.
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Norway blames Russian hackers for dam cyberattack in Bremanger
Russian hackers briefly took control of a dam in Norway earlier this year, the head of the Nordic country's counter-intelligence agency said on Wednesday, the first time Oslo has officially attributed the cyberattack to its neighbour.
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