Play ransomware claims disruptive attack on City of Oakland
The Play ransomware gang has taken responsibility for a cyberattack on the City of Oakland that has disrupted IT systems since mid-February. Oakland is a…
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BidenCash market leaks over 2 million stolen credit cards for free
A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration of its first anniversary. Rather…
FBI and CISA warn of increasing Royal ransomware attack risks
CISA and the FBI have issued a joint advisory highlighting the increasing threat behind ongoing Royal ransomware attacks targeting many U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including…
Brave Search launches AI-powered summarizer in search results
Brave Search has incorporated a new AI-powered tool named Summarizer, which gives a summarized answer to an inputted question before the rest of the search…
White House releases new U.S. national cybersecurity strategy
The Biden-Harris administration today released its national cybersecurity strategy that focuses on shifting the burden of defending the country’s cyberspace towards software vendors and service…
Hatch Bank discloses data breach after GoAnywhere MFT hack
Fintech banking platform Hatch Bank has reported a data breach after hackers stole the personal information of almost 140,000 customers from the company’s Fortra GoAnywhere…
Microsoft releases Windows security updates for Intel CPU flaws
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for ‘Memory Mapped I/O Stale Data (MMIO)’ information disclosure vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs. The Mapped I/O side-channel vulnerabilities were…
Chick-fil-A confirms accounts hacked in months-long “automated” attack
American fast food chain Chick-fil-A has confirmed that customers’ accounts were breached in a months-long credential stuffing attack, allowing threat actors to use stored rewards…
Chinese hackers use new custom backdoor to evade detection
The Chinese cyber espionage hacking group Mustang Panda was seen deploying a new custom backdoor named ‘MQsTTang’ in attacks starting this year. Mustang Panda is…
Australian woman arrested for email bombing a government office
The Australian Federal Police arrested a woman in Werrington, Sydney, for allegedly email bombing the office of a Federal Member of Parliament. Email bombing is…
CISA releases free ‘Decider’ tool to help with MITRE ATT&CK mapping
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released ‘Decider,’ an open-source tool that helps defenders and security analysts quickly generate MITRE ATT&CK mapping…
British retail chain WH Smith says data stolen in cyberattack
British retailer WH Smith has suffered a data breach that exposed information belonging to current and former employees. The company operates 1,700 locations across the United…