Tag: security
EquiLend data stolen in cyberattack, company confirms
The ransomware attack on EquiLend in January 2024 did result in customer data theft, the financial giant has confirmed. The company sent a data breach notification letter to its customers earlier this week, confirming the theft of personally identifiable information (PII), BleepingComputer reports. EquiLend is a global financial technology, data…
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Okta denies it was hacked again after data appears on hacking site
A hacker has shared a new database on an underground forum, claiming it contained data stolen from Okta – however the company begs to differ. In late October 2023, cybercriminals broke into Okta systems and stole client session cookies, potentially giving them access to those companies’ networks, and opening the…
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CISA confirms it was breached by attackers using Ivanti flaws, some systems taken offline
One of the organizations compromised through a recently-discovered flaw in Ivanti products was, ironically enough, the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Confirmation of the breach came from CISA itself, as well as from an anonymous source “with knowledge of the situation”, with a CISA spokesperson telling The…
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Thousands of WordPress sites facing malware infection following major plugin hack
More than 3,000 WordPress-powered websites were compromised as a result of not patching a known vulnerability fast enough, a report from cybersecurity researchers Sucuri and PublicWWW has claimed. Sucuri says that over the past couple of weeks, unnamed threat actors were leveraging a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-6000 to redirect people…
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QNAP warns its NAS devices are facing a critical security flaw — but a patch is available, so update now
QNAP is sounding the alarm on its NAS devices, saying they’re vulnerable to flaws that could result in dangerous cyberattacks. The company has said some of its QTS, QuTS hero, QuTScloud, and myQNAPcloud products were vulnerable to three distinct flaws, one of which was particularly dangerous. That flaw is tracked…
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New Magnet Goblin cybercrime crew is targeting Windows and Linux devices with all-new malware
Cybersecurity researchers from Check Point haev discovered a new hacking collective deploying all-new malware on Windows and Linux devices. Check Point says the previously-unknown group, dubbed Magnet Goblin, was leveraging 1-day vulnerabilities – flaws for which a patch was only recently released. In some instances, the group was leveraging flaws…
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