Security
iOS sleep management app leaked personal user details online
An iPhone app to battle insomnia, Sleep Journey: Insomnia Helper, exposed tens of thousands of users, revealing their names, alcohol habits, and other private data.
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Coca-Cola data breach exposes company employees - hackers
Nearly a thousand soft drink makers’ employees had their details exposed alongside confidential internal documents, the ransomware gang behind the alleged breach claims.
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Lumma malware threat disrupted as DOJ and Microsoft takedown over 2300 malicious domains
The US Justice Department and Microsoft on Wednesday announced the takedown of over 2300 malicious domains, disrupting the central infrastructure of one of the most popular info-stealing malware tools used by cybercriminals today – the LummaC2 Infostealer.
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Hackers claim Godzilla creator breach, researchers think otherwise
The company behind the recent Oscar winner Godzilla Minus One, Toho, was posted on a dark web site cybercriminals use to showcase their latest victims.
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Hackers advertise fake AI video generator on Facebook – users get malware
Cybercriminals are running malicious campaigns revolving around generative artificial intelligence (AI) services. Fraudulent websites impersonate the generative video service, Kling AI, by running fake ads on Facebook. When users try to generate content, they download malware instead.
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Near record DDoS attack hits KrebsOnSecurity – blog withstands it
KrebsOnSecurity, a blog covering cybersecurity, has experienced a near-record distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, reaching a 6.3 terabit per second data rate.
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Major Facebook data leak reveals 1.2 billion user records, hacker claims
A massive 1.2 billion user record database was scraped from the Meta-owned Facebook by abusing one of the social media platform‘s APIs.
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This is how much money you should keep in your pocket in case of a cyberattack
What if the payment system is down and payment terminals aren’t working? How much cash should you have in your pocket when this scenario occurs? De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), commercial banks, consumer organizations, retail associations, the Dutch Ministry of Finance, and other institutions united in the National Forum on the Payment System (NFPS) have the answer.
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Hundreds of passport applications exposed at diplomatic institution
Half a thousand passport applications exposed at the Libyan Consulate in Stockholm left an unprotected instance accessible to the public.
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American student housing developer breached, hackers claim
Landmark Properties, a real estate developer with over $15 billion in assets under management, allegedly had its systems breached, with cybercriminals claiming to have stolen over a terabyte of data.
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Coinbase reveals almost 70K customers affected in data breach
Coinbase says 69,461 customers were affected by a data breach caused by insider wrongdoing. The data thieves have been abusing access to the company’s systems since December 26th last year.
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Companies are increasingly limiting access to AI tools: millions of DNS queries blocked
Companies are increasingly disrupting traffic to generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools so that their employees cannot reach Notion, ChatGPT, Claude, or other assistants. DNSFilter, a protected Domain Name System (DNS) service, said it has already blocked 60 million visits.
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Over 100 malicious Chrome extensions detected: disguised as AI tools, VPNs, and crypto utilities
In over a year, a single cybercriminal spawned over 100 fake malicious Chrome extensions with dual functionalities, capable of tracking users and stealing their access tokens. The hacker bypasses Google’s defenses by injecting malicious scripts remotely, after the extension is installed.
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Retailer Tesco, Aldi’s supplier, hit with ransomware
Peter Green Chilled, a UK-based logistics firm working with major retailers Tesco, Aldi, and Sainsbury’s, had some of its systems encrypted, not a month after the devastating cyberattack on Marks & Spencer.
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DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of messages from hacked Signal clone used by Mike Waltz
Journalists and researchers can access a massive 410 GB database of leaked messages and other data from TeleMessage, a hacked Signal-clone messenger used by former US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. The leak may also expose other officials because the app used Signal servers and saved message copies in plain text.
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Over 50% of the top oil and gas companies suffered data breaches in the past 30 days
A new report reveals that only 10% of top oil and gas firms passed a basic cybersecurity assessment — the rest failed.
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Your AI isn’t safe: How LLM hijacking and prompt leaks are fueling a new wave of data breaches
A junior developer at a fast-growing fintech startup, racing to meet a launch deadline, copied an API key into a public GitHub repo. Within hours, the key was scraped, bundled with others, and traded on Discord to a shadowy network of digital joyriders.
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O2 was leaking user geolocation to anyone who was initiating a call
O2, a major telecommunications company operating in the United Kingdom, has been leaking user location data for at least a few months. Any attacker could obtain the user's location and other data just by initiating a call.
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