UK Electoral Commission discloses a data breachSecurity Affairs
The UK Electoral Commission suffered a data breach that exposed voters’ personal information between 2014 and 2022. The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a data breach…
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43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5M installs loaded ads when a phone screen was offSecurity Affairs
Experts found 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that displayed advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. Recently, researchers from McAfee’s…
Zoom trains its AI model with some user data, without giving them an opt-out optionSecurity Affairs
Zoom changed its terms of service requiring users to allow AI to train on all their data without giving them an opt-out option. Zoom updated its…
North Korea compromised Russian missile engineering firm NPO MashinostroyeniyaSecurity Affairs
Two North Korea-linked APT groups compromised the infrastructure of the major Russian missile engineering firm NPO Mashinostroyeniya. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne linked the compromise of the…
A sophisticated SkidMap variant targets unsecured Redis serversSecurity Affairs
A new campaign targets Redis servers, this time the malware employed in the attacks is a new variant of the SkidMap malware. Skidmap is a piece…
FBI warns of crooks posing as NFT dev in fraudulent schemaSecurity Affairs
The FBI is warning about cyber criminals masquerading as NFT developers to steal cryptocurrency and other digital assets. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…
The number of ransomware attacks targeting Finland increased fourfold since it started the process to join NATOSecurity Affairs
Senior official reports a quadruple increase in ransomware attacks against Finland since it started the process to join NATO. The number of ransomware attacks targeting…
Microsoft fixed a flaw in Power Platform after being criticizedSecurity Affairs
Microsoft announced it has addressed a critical flaw in its Power Platform after it was criticized for the delay in fixing the issue. Microsoft this week…
Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attackSecurity Affairs
The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a…
BlueCharlie changes attack infrastructure in response to reports on its activitySecurity Affairs
Russia-linked APT group BlueCharlie was observed changing its infrastructure in response to recent reports on its activity. Researchers from Recorded Future reported that Russia-linked APT…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 431 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email…
Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South KoreaSecurity Affairs
Researchers observed threat actors that are using an open-source rootkit called Reptile in attacks aimed at systems in South Korea. Reptile is an open-source kernel module rootkit…