Former IT employee gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers
A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual…
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CISA warns of Windows bug exploited in ransomware attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity Windows vulnerability abused in ransomware attacks as a zero-day to its catalog of…
Former IT staff gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers
A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual…
Scattered Spider hackers switch focus to cloud apps for data theft
The Scattered Spider gang has started to steal data from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and establish persistence through creating new virtual machines. Also tracked as a.k.a. Octo Tempest,…
Insurance giant Globe Life investigating web portal breach
American financial services holding company Globe Life says attackers may have accessed consumer and policyholder data after breaching one of its web portals. The incident…
Microsoft delays Windows Recall amid privacy and security concerns
Microsoft is delaying the release of its AI-powered Windows Recall feature to test and secure it further before releasing it in a public preview on Copilot+…
Truist Bank confirms breach after stolen data shows up on hacking forum
Leading U.S. commercial bank Truist confirmed its systems were breached in an October 2023 cyberattack after a threat actor posted some of the company’s data…
Ascension hacked after employee downloaded malicious file
IMAGE: MIDJOURNEY Ascension, one of the largest U.S. healthcare systems, revealed that a May 2024 ransomware attack was caused by an employee who downloaded a…
New York Times warns freelancers of GitHub repo data breach
The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached…
Panera warns of employee data breach after March ransomware attack
U.S. food chain giant Panera Bread is notifying employees of a data breach after unknown threat actors stole their sensitive personal information in a March ransomware…
Toronto District School Board hit by a ransomware attack
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any…
Google patches exploited Android zero-day on Pixel devices
Update June 13, 13:01 EDT: GrapheneOS says CVE-2024-32896 is the same as CVE-2024-29748. Google added a new CVE ID to track the Pixel fix for CVE-2024-29748, a…