T-Mobile disclosed Thursday that hackers had access for approximately six weeks to an application programming interface that exposed customer data including names, birthdates and email addresses. No payment information or passwords were part of the breach, the company said.
The total amount of ransom payments being sent by victims to ransomware groups appears to have taken a big dip, declining by 40% from $766 million in 2021 to $457 million in 2022 due to victims simply being unwilling to pay, blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis reports.
Essential reading for network defenders: CircleCI's report into its recent breach, which began when malware infected an engineer's laptop. After stealing "a valid, 2FA-backed" single sign-on session cookie, attackers stole customers' secrets and gained unauthorized access to third-party systems.
The prolific ransomware group LockBit has been tied to the recent disruption of Britain's national postal system, as Royal Mail reports it remains unable to send international letters or parcels. While LockBit has enjoyed unusual longevity, could this attack be its undoing?
Researchers have found that Kinsing malware gained access to Kubernetes servers by exploiting misconfigured and exposed PostgreSQL servers. The threat actors gained access by exploiting weakly configured PostgreSQL containers and vulnerable container images.
Expect the recently leaked database containing over 200 million Twitter records to be an ongoing resource for hackers, fraudsters and other criminals operating online, experts warn. Though 98% of the email addresses have appeared in prior breaches, bad actors can merge databases and do more damage.
Software vulnerabilities installed by luxury car manufacturers including Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce and Porsche that could allow remote attackers to control vehicles and steal owners' personal details have been fixed. Cybersecurity researchers uncovered the vulnerabilities while vacationing.
A member of a criminal data breach forum that tried to sell the email addresses of 400 million Twitter users to CEO Elon Musk last month has now posted the stolen data for anyone to download for free. The 63GB of data includes names, handles, creation dates, follower counts and email addresses.
Phishing and other socially-engineered schemes are going to get bolder, the attack surface is only going to get bigger, and enterprises everywhere are going to have to focus more on building cyber resilience. These are among the New Year's predictions from Zoom's new CISO, Michael Adams.
Information Security Media Group asked some of the industry's leading cybersecurity experts about the trends to watch in 2023. Responses covered a variety of emerging threats and evolving trends affecting security technologies, leadership and regulation. Here is a look at the year ahead.
A member of a criminal data breach forum says he's selling email addresses and phone numbers of 400 million Twitter users. If verified, the data breach would be a further blow to Twitter and its beleaguered chief executive as regulators increase pressure over the firm's security practices.
Observability is not necessarily a commonly understood term in cybersecurity circles. What exactly does it mean in context, and how does it relate to security? Jackie McGuire of Cribl discusses the observability pipeline and how best to build a solution.
It's been another watershed year for cybersecurity practitioners and leaders. How would one describe the state of security and data as we head into 2023? Jackie McGuire of Cribl weighs in with her observations and predictions for the new year.
APIs increasingly drive everything from web and mobile application development to IoT devices since they streamline communication among disparate systems, says Synack CEO Jay Kaplan. But testing the efficacy and security of APIs remains challenging given the size of API endpoints.
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