PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers.
A data breach involving Vice Media leaked the sensitive information and financial data of more than 1,700 people, according to filings with Maine’s Attorney General. In two separate filings on January26 and 31, Vice Media said it was alerted in March 2022 that there was a cyberattack on its network.
Dutch cyber authorities said Wednesday that several hospital websites in the Netherlands and Europe were likely targeted by a pro-Kremlin hacking group because of their countries’ support for Ukraine. The UMCG hospital in the northern Dutch city of Groningen, one of the largest in the country, saw its website crash in a cyberattack on Saturday.
The GoAnywhere MFT is made by Fortra, known until recently as HelpSystems, and it’s designed to enable organizations to automate and secure the exchange of data with their trading partners.
Cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs broke the news about the zero-day vulnearbility on Thursday, saying that the company had temporarily implemented a service outage in response.
Atlassian has released fixes to resolve a critical security flaw in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center that could be abused by an attacker to pass off as another user and gain unauthorized access to susceptible instances.
Admins, hosting providers, and the French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) warn that attackers actively target VMware ESXi servers unpatched against a two-year-old remote code execution vulnerability to deploy a new ESXiArgs ransomware.
Resecurity discovered a relatively recent ransomware family called Nevada Ransomware. Its creators have an affiliate program that was initially launched on the RAMP underground community, known for hosting IABs and other cybercriminal groups.
An ongoing malvertising campaign is being used to distribute virtualized .NET loaders that are designed to deploy the FormBook information-stealing malware.
The majority (51%) of security leaders expect ChatGPT to be at the heart of a successful cyber-attack within a year, according to new research by BlackBerry. The survey of 1500 IT decision makers across North America, the UK and Australia also found that 71% believe nation-states are likely to already be using the technology for malicious purposes against other countries.
The financial services industry is consistently the most targeted industry across the board. It accounts for 28% of all the attack attempts Imperva tracks, by far the largest percentage. By comparison, the next largest industry is the business sector, at 14%. As cybercrime grows, the financial services industry will continue to be a lucrative target.
