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43 million workers potentially affected in France Travail data breach
French national unemployment agency France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) and Cap emploi, a government employment service for people with disabilities, have suffered a data …
Spoutible API exposed encrypted password reset tokens, 2FA secrets of users
A publicly exposed API of social media platform Spoutible may have allowed threat actors to scrape information that can be used to hijack user accounts. The problem with the …
AnyDesk has been hacked, users urged to change passwords
AnyDesk Software GmbH, the German company behind the widely used (and misused) remote desktop application of the same name, has confirmed they’ve been hacked and their …
Cybercriminals embrace smarter strategies, less effort
2024 is shaping up to be a record-breaking year for data breaches, according to Experian. Despite 2023 being labeled as a ‘successful’ year for malicious actors, …
Longer passwords aren’t safe from intensive cracking efforts
88% of organizations still use passwords as their primary method of authentication, according to Specops Software. The report found that 31.1 million breached passwords had …
Russian hackers breached Microsoft, HPE corporate maliboxes
Cozy Bear (aka Midnight Blizzard, aka APT29) has been busy hacking and spying on big tech companies: both Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have recently …
Data of 15 million Trello users scraped and offered for sale
Someone is selling scraped data of millions of users of Trello, a popular a web-based list-making application and project management platform, on a dark web hacker forum. The …
2024 brings new risks, with cyber incidents in the spotlight
Cyber incidents such as ransomware attacks, data breaches, and IT disruptions are the biggest worry for companies globally in 2024, according to Allianz. The closely …
Citrix Bleed leveraged to steal data of 35+ million Comcast Xfinity customers
Telecommunications company Comcast has confirmed a breach that exposed personal information of more than 35.8 million of Xfinity customers. Exploiting Citrix Bleed to breach …
Mr. Cooper breach exposes sensitive info of over 14 million customers
Mortgage company Mr. Cooper has confirmed that personal information of over 14.6 million customers has been exposed in its October 2023 data breach. The breach “On …
MongoDB corporate systems breached, customer data exposed
Database management company MongoDB has suffered a breach: attackers have gained access to some of its corporate systems and customer data and metadata. The MongoDB breach …
Organizations prefer a combination of AI and human analysts to monitor their digital supply chain
The number of cyber breaches targeting organizations’ supply chains continues to rise, with an average 4.16 breaches reported to be negatively impacting operations this …