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One of world’s largest cyber insurance company hacked. Did it bought of cyber insurance for themselves ?

More than 200 lines of business make up the significant insurance and reinsurance marketplace run by Lloyd’s. AM Best ranked Lloyd’s as the seventh-largest reinsurer for 2021 last year. With its much-anticipated decision to phase out coverage for state-sponsored cyberattacks, which Lloyd’s announced in August, the insurance industry powerhouse Lloyd’s recently made waves. While not […]

Ransomware gang leaks Ferrari’s confidential data

Ferrari has suffered an attack that has resulted in 7 GB of stolen company information. The cyberattack has been produced and claimed by the ‘RansomEXX’ cybercriminal group, known for its RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) activities. The Italian luxury super sports car company Ferrari has confirmed the theft of information.In the statement they add that there is no […]

Auth0, an authentication service provider and Okta subsidiary hacked

A “security incident” affecting several of its code repositories has been published by Auth0, an authentication service provider and Okta subsidiary. More than 2,000 corporate clients from 30 countries, utilize Auth0’s authentication technology to authenticate over 42 million logins per day. Multiple code repository archives from 2020 and earlier (dating Okta’s February 2022 purchase) were […]

Chilean Government once again becomes a victim of Ransomware and this time is Judiciary ( Poder Judicial)

The Chile Judiciary issued a cyber security alert for ransomware on its network and asked officials not to open or read emails or messages “of dubious origin.” This incident affected the systems with serious problems, because of which some hearings scheduled for this morning were suspended. This after finding some corporate computers with Windows 7 and McAfee antivirus with […]

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney fined $35 Million for not doing secure destruction of hard drives & servers and allowing vendors to sell them on ebay 

The allegations against Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MSSB) were made public by the Securities and Exchange Commission today. These allegations come from the company’s many breaches over a five-year period to secure the personal identifying information, or PII, of around 15 million clients. MSSB has agreed to address the SEC’s allegations by paying a […]

CYBER ATTCK TAKES DOWN RESERVATION SYSTEMS OF INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS, CROWNE PLAZA, HOLIDAY INN, REGENT AND HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS

The company InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) has announced this Tuesday that it has suffered a computer attack that has blocked its reservation channels. IHG has a massive operation operating 6,028 hotels and 882,897 rooms in more than 100 countries. It has about 325,000 employees and includes its Regent, InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, Crowne Plaza, […]

Ukrainian hackers lure Russian soldiers into sharing their location, then bomb their base

Ukrainian hackers have been baiting Russian troops into sharing their locations with fake profiles of conventionally attractive women on Facebook and Russian social media websites, according to the Financial Times. The newspaper ran an interview with Ukrainian hacker Nikita Knysh, whose cyber security company HackControl—nicknamed Hackyourmom—has launched a cyber war on Russia since the beginning […]

Samsung admits hack that leaked personal information (names, birthdays and contact details) of its users

Samsung admitted to having suffered a cybersecurity incident in late July and early August, where “an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of the company’s systems” in the United States. Among the information that the attackers obtained are names, birthdays, contact information and product registrations. The company has already responded to this attack and […]

LastPass: the world’s most popular password manager hacked

LastPass, a password manager with more than 33 million users around the world, issued a statement Thursday night to say that its systems were attacked by cybercriminals two weeks ago and that information from its source code, along with proprietary technical information the company was robbed. The company also indicated in its statement that it […]

Plex Media Server suffers a security breach, do this right now

Plex Media Server is one of the most used software by NAS server users, thanks to this software, we will be able to set up our own Netflix at home with great image quality and magnificent usability. In order to use this service, it is necessary to register on its official website, either for the […]

LockBit falls victim to a large-scale DDoS attack after hacking into Entrust. LockBit accuses Entrust of being behind the cyberattack

Entrust is accused by LockBit of being behind the cyberattack. If such were the case, a genuine security firm would never retaliate by conducting a DDoS assault against criminals.Following a DDoS attack that knocked the LockBit ransomware gang offline for several days, the group has claimed that it will pursue more aggressive methods while aggressively […]

Microsoft employees leak their own passwords on GitHub, incredible as it may seem

Large corporations are always in the crosshairs of hackers, who are constantly looking for new ways to access their systems. This forces the implementation of increasingly strict security measures, although no platform is truly safe when subjected to the human factor. And Microsoft has experienced it first-hand, after learning that several employees shared their access […]

DIGITAL OCEAN USERS’ EMAILS LEAKED AFTER MAILCHIMP HACKING INCIDENT

DigitalOcean has revealed that some of its customers’ emails were exposed to attackers thanks to an attack on the Mailchimp email marketing service. DigitalOcean has reported on its website a security incident suffered due to a security breach caused by its email provider, Mailchimp. On August 8, they discovered that their Mailchimp account had been […]

TWILIO HACKED, CLIENTS’ PERSONAL DATA LEAKED. SLACK RESET PASSWORDS OF ITS USERS

Twilio Twilio has confirmed that hackers accessed customer data after successfully tricking employees into handing over their corporate login credentials. The San Francisco-based company, which allows users to embed voice and SMS capabilities, such as two-factor authentication (2FA), into apps, said in a blog post that it realized “someone got unauthorized access to information related […]

4TB of confidential data, firmware code of Cellebrite TFS and Cellebrite Mobilogy leaked. UFED tool can be used to unlock any iPhone or Android

A threat actor has leaked 4TB of confidential data from Cellebrite an Israeli digital intelligence company. Cellebrite is an Israeli company specialized in providing forensic tools to security forces and companies, such as extracting data from an encrypted iPhone or Android mobile. It offers services to collect, review, analyze, and manage digital data. Its tools […]