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Hackers are targeting your business
January 1, 2024
They're using "social engineering" attacks, seemingly innocent yet malicious online activities. According to a recent study, small business employees on average will experience 350% more social engineering attacks than employees of large businesses.1
Common on social media platforms, these attacks are increasingly affecting applications like your payroll and invoicing systems. But you can help your employees minimize risks with the following tips.
Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online 2 million records leaked as proof
November 15, 2023
We updated our personal data leak checker database with more than 780,000 email addresses associated with this leak. Use it to find out if your LinkedIn profile has been scraped by the threat actors. Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, it seems like we’re in for another one, this time involving LinkedIn. An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by the post author.
What Twitter’s 200 Million-User Email Leak Actually Means
JAN 6, 2023
AFTER REPORTS AT the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of the larger trove with duplicate entries removed. The social network has not yet commented on the massive exposure, but the cache of data clarifies the severity of the leak and who may be most at risk as a result of it.
The First American Corporation Data Leak what happened?
September 7, 2021
Quora hacked: 100 million users’ data exposed here’s what you need to do
Aug 20 2022
Account information, including name, email address, encrypted password and data imported from linked networks when authorized by users may have been compromised. Quora, the popular knowledge-sharing website, has been hit with a major cyber breach. were affected by unauthorised access to one of its systems by a "malicious third party," said the company in a blog post.
Kaseya ransomware attack sets off race to hack service providers -researchers
August 4, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A ransomware attack in July that paralyzed as many as 1,500 organizations by compromising tech-management software from a company called Kaseya has set off a race among criminals looking for similar vulnerabilities, cyber security experts said.
An affiliate of a top Russian-speaking ransomware gang known as REvil used two gaping flaws in software from Florida-based Kaseya to break into about 50 managed services providers (MSPs) that used its products, investigators said.
Meatpacker JBS says it paid equivalent of $11 mln in ransomware attack
June 11, 2021
June 9 (Reuters) - Meatpacker JBS USA paid a ransom equivalent to $11 million following a cyberattack that disrupted its North American and Australian operations, the company's CEO said in a statement on Wednesday.
The subsidiary of Brazilian firm JBS SA (JBSS3.SA), opens new tab halted cattle slaughtering at all of its U.S. plants for a day last week in response to the cyberattack, which threatened to disrupt food supply chains and further inflate already high food prices.
Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised Password
June 5, 2021
The hack that took down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. and led to shortages across the East Coast was the result of a single compromised password, according to a cybersecurity consultant who responded to the attack. Hackers gained entry into the networks of Colonial Pipeline Co. on April 29 through a virtual private network account, which allowed employees to remotely access the company’s computer network, said Charles Carmakal, senior vice president at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of FireEye Inc., in an interview. The account was no longer in use at the time of the attack but could still be used to access Colonial’s network, he said.
Marriott discloses massive data breach affecting up to 500 million guests
November 30, 2018
Marriott said Friday that hackers have had access to the reservation systems of many of its hotel chains for the past four years, a breach that exposed private details of up to 500 million customers while underscoring the sensitive nature of records showing where and when people travel — and with whom.