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How to Become a Certified Cyber Threat Intelligent Analyst?

Nowadays, Cyber crimes are increasing. The demand for cyber thteat intelligence experts is high. The field of cyber Intelligence is growing and booming, and the skills of professionals in this field will continue to be in high demand. In this article, we will discuss about Cyber Threat Intelligence. Threat intelligence is for everyone, no matter […]

Shopify Data Breach – Two Rogue Employees Stole Customer Data

The Online e-commerce platform Shopify announced a data breach after two of their rogue employees of the support team engaged in accessing the transactional records of certain customers. Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company founded in 2006, the company has more than 1,000,000 customers in approximately 175 countries. The company said that, once […]

Experian South Africa Suffers Data Breach Affecting Millions; Attacker Identified

The South African arm of one of the world’s largest credit check companies Experian yesterday announced a data breach incident that exposed personal information of millions of its customers. While Experian itself didn’t mention the number of affect customers, in a report, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre—an anti-fraud and banking non-profit organization who […]

OkCupid Dating App Flaws Could’ve Let Hackers Read Your Private Messages

Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed several security issues in popular online dating platform OkCupid that could potentially let attackers remotely spy on users’ private information or perform malicious actions on behalf of the targeted accounts. According to a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers from Check Point found that the flaws in OkCupid’s Android and […]

1M e-learning Student Records Exposed Online From Misconfigured Cloud Storage

More than 1 million e-learning users data exposed from a misconfigured and unencrypted Amazon S3 buckets and other types of servers. The exposed data can be accessed by anyone online without any form of authentication. e-learning Students Data Leak The breach was found by researchers at Wizcase, the breach affects 5 different eLearning Companies around […]

Hackers Using Google Analytics to Bypass Web Security and Steal Credit Cards

Researchers reported on Monday that hackers are now exploiting Google’s Analytics service to stealthily pilfer credit card information from infected e-commerce sites. According to several independent reports from PerimeterX, Kaspersky, and Sansec, threat actors are now injecting data-stealing code on the compromised websites in combination with tracking code generated by Google Analytics for their own […]

Hackers Leaked 269 GB of U.S. Police and Fusion Centers Data Online

A group of hacktivists and transparency advocates has published a massive 269 GB of data allegedly stolen from more than 200 police departments, fusion centers, and other law enforcement agencies across the United States. Dubbed BlueLeaks, the exposed data leaked by the DDoSecrets group contains hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents from the past ten […]

Cognizant Confirms Data Breach After Ransomware Attack

IT services giant cognizant suffered a ransomware attack last April which cause service disruptions to its clients. Cognizant is one of the IT giants that has more than 300,000 employees and it provides IT services, including digital, technology, consulting, and operations services. Files Stolen in Ransomware Attack On April 17th the company stated that their […]

Any Indian DigiLocker Account Could’ve Been Accessed Without Password

The Indian Government said it has addressed a critical vulnerability in its secure document wallet service Digilocker that could have potentially let a remote attacker bypass mobile one-time passwords (OTP) and sign in as other users. Discovered separately by two independent bug bounty researchers, Mohesh Mohan and Ashish Gahlot, the vulnerability could have been exploited […]

Joomla Team Discloses Data Breach – 2,700 Individuals Were Affected

Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system used for publishing web content. The team behind the CMS discloses the data breach last week. The incident happens after a team member left an unencrypted full backup of the JRD site on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket. The company said that more […]

Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) Portal Suffers Data Breach

Joomla, one of the most popular Open-source content management systems (CMS), last week announced a new data breach impacting 2,700 users who have an account with its resources directory (JRD) website, i.e., resources.joomla.org. The breach exposed affected users’ personal information, such as full names, business addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. The company […]

Japan Suspects HGV Attack Missile Data Leak in Part of Cyberattack That Hit Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Recently, the Mitsubishi Electric Corp has revealed a major security breach; and in a brief statement released on its website stated that “sensitive information on the development of attack missiles could have been stolen part of a cyberattack on the servers of the Japanese electronic manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric last year.” The attack appeared to have […]

EasyJet Hacked – More than 9 Million Customers Details Were Accessed

EasyJet admitted that hackers have stolen the email address and travel details of more than 9 million customers. The company not provided any details of how the breach occurs or how the hackers gained access to their servers. Due to this coronavirus pandemic, the company has grounded most of its flights, in 2019 easyJet uplifted […]

Brazil’s Biggest Cosmetic Brand Natura Exposes Personal Details of Its Users

Brazil’s biggest cosmetics company Natura accidentally left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers’ personal and payment-related information publicly accessible online that could have been accessed by anyone without authentication. SafetyDetective researcher Anurag Sen last month discovered two unprotected Amazon-hosted servers—with 272GB and 1.3TB in size—belonging to Natura that consisted of more than 192 million records. […]

BMW Hacked – OceanLotus APT Hackers Group Penetrate The BMW Networks

A well-known APT Hackers group “OceanLotus” breach the automobile giant BMW network, and successfully installed a hacking tool called “Cobalt Strike” which help them to spy and remotely control the system. Security experts from BMW spotted that hackers penetrate the company network system and remain stayed active since March 2019. The OceanLotus APT group believed […]

Tens of Millions of SMS text Messages & Massive Private Data Leaked Online From Hacked Database

Researchers discovered a massive hacked database online that exposed tens of millions of SMS text messages, and private data belongs to a U.S company TrueDialog. TrueDialog is an American communication company that offering SMS texting solutions to companies such as businesses, universities, and colleges in the USA. Companies claim that they provide Enterprise-grade SMS Texting […]

Top 5 Best Cyber Attack Prevention Methods for Small Businesses With Breach & Attack Simulation

Cyber attack prevention for Small businesses very has to get serious about their cybersecurity. Hackers are now actively Performing Targeted cyber attack due to their weak security. In fact, 43 percent of cyberattacks today are aimed at smaller firms. Unfortunately, falling victim to cyberattacks can be devastating. Cyberattacks can cause downtime, damaged reputation, and lost […]