The Week in Ransomware – December 22nd 2023
Earlier this month, the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation suffered a five-day disruption to their Tor data leak and negotiation sites, rumored...
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Ubisoft says it’s investigating reports of a new security breach
Ubisoft is investigating whether it suffered a breach after images of the company’s internal software and developer tools were leaked...
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Nissan Australia cyberattack claimed by Akira ransomware gang
Today, the Akira ransomware gang claimed that it breached the network of Nissan Australia, the Australian division of Japanese car...
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Fake VPN Chrome extensions force-installed 1.5 million times
Three malicious Chrome extensions posing as VPN (Virtual Private Networks) infected were downloaded 1.5 million times, acting as browser hijackers,...
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Europol warns 443 online shops infected with credit card stealers
Europol has notified over 400 websites that their online shops have been hacked with malicious scripts that steal debit and...
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First American takes IT systems offline after cyberattack
First American Financial Corporation, the second-largest title insurance company in the United States, took some of its systems offline today...
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Crypto drainer steals $59 million from 63k people in Twitter ad push
Google and Twitter ads are promoting sites containing a cryptocurrency drainer named ‘MS Drainer’ that has already stolen $59 million...
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Lapsus$ hacker behind GTA 6 leak gets indefinite hospital sentence
Lapsus$ cybercrime and extortion group member, Arion Kurtaj has been sentenced to life in a ‘secure hospital’ by a UK judge....
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Hackers target defense firms with new FalseFont malware
Microsoft says the APT33 Iranian cyber-espionage group is using recently discovered FalseFont backdoor malware to attack defense contractors worldwide. “Microsoft has...
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Title insurance giant First American offline after cyberattack
First American Financial Corporation, the second-largest title insurance company in the United States, took some of its systems offline today...
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Microsoft deprecates Defender Application Guard for some Edge users
Microsoft is deprecating Defender Application Guard (including the Windows Isolated App Launcher APIs) for Edge for Business users. Microsoft Defender...
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OpenAI rolls out imperfect fix for ChatGPT data leak flaw
OpenAI has mitigated a data exfiltration bug in ChatGPT that could potentially leak conversation details to an external URL. According...
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