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Latest Atlassian Confluence Flaw Exploited to Breach Jenkins Project Server

The maintainers of Jenkins—a popular open-source automation server software—have disclosed a security breach after unidentified threat actors gained access to one of their servers by exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence service to install a cryptocurrency miner. The “successful attack,” which is believed to have occurred last week, was mounted against its Confluence […]

Critical Cosmos Database Flaw Affected Thousands of Microsoft Azure Customers

Cloud infrastructure security company Wiz on Thursday revealed details of a now-fixed Azure Cosmos database vulnerability that could have been potentially exploited to grant any Azure user full admin access to other customers’ database instances without any authorization. The flaw, which grants read, write, and delete privileges, has been dubbed “ChaosDB,” with Wiz researchers noting […]

Researchers Detail Modus Operandi of ShinyHunters Cyber Crime Group

ShinyHunters, a notorious cybercriminal underground group that’s been on a data breach spree since last year, has been observed searching companies’ GitHub repository source code for vulnerabilities that can be abused to stage larger scale attacks, an analysis of the hackers’ modus operandi has revealed. “Primarily operating on Raid Forums, the collective’s moniker and motivation […]

Chinese Hackers Believed to be Behind Second Cyberattack on Air India

Even as a massive data breach affecting Air India came to light the previous month, India’s flag carrier airline appears to have suffered a separate cyber assault that lasted for a period of at least two months and 26 days, new research has revealed, which attributed the incident with moderate confidence to a Chinese nation-state […]

Using Breached Password Detection Services to Prevent Cyberattack

Bolstering password policies in your organization is an important part of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Cybercriminals are using compromised accounts as one of their favorite tactics to infiltrate business-critical environments; as we’ve seen in recent news, these attacks can be dangerous and financially impactful. Unfortunately, account compromise is a very successful attack method and requires […]

Can Data Protection Systems Prevent Data At Rest Leakage?

Protection against insider risks works when the process involves controlling the data transfer channels or examining data sources. One approach involves preventing USB flash drives from being copied or sending them over email. The second one concerns preventing leakage or fraud in which an insider accesses files or databases with harmful intentions. What’s the best […]

Passwordstate Warns of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Following Data Breach

Click Studios, the Australian software firm which confirmed a supply chain attack affecting its Passwordstate password management application, has warned customers of an ongoing phishing attack by an unknown threat actor. “We have been advised a bad actor has commenced a phishing attack with a small number of customers having received emails requesting urgent action,” […]

3.2 Billion Leaked Passwords Contain 1.5 Million Records with Government Emails

A staggering number of 3.28 billion passwords linked to 2.18 billion unique email addresses were exposed in what’s one of the largest data dumps of breached usernames and passwords. In addition, the leak includes 1,502,909 passwords associated with email addresses from government domains across the world, with the U.S. government alone taking up 625,505 of […]

PHP Site’s User Database Was Hacked In Recent Source Code Backdoor Attack

The maintainers of the PHP programming language have issued an update regarding the security incident that came to light late last month, stating that the actors may have gotten hold of a user database containing their passwords to make unauthorized changes to the repository. “We no longer believe the git.php.net server has been compromised. However, […]

533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online

In what’s likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full names, Facebook IDs, mobile numbers, locations, email addresses, gender, occupation, […]

New Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Lets Other Users Access Restricted Apps

A newly discovered glitch in Zoom’s screen sharing feature can accidentally leak sensitive information to other attendees in a call, according to the latest findings. Tracked as CVE-2021-28133, the unpatched security vulnerability makes it possible to reveal contents of applications that are not shared, but only briefly, thereby making it harder to exploit it in […]

Kroger Data Breach – Hackers Stole Files that Shared Through Secure File Transfer Service

The Kroger Company is the United States’ largest supermarket by revenue and the second-largest general retailer. Kroger operates almost 2,750 supermarkets in 35 states. Kroger employs approximately 500,000 people and had over $122 billion in sales for 2019. The company has confirmed that it was impacted by the data security incident affecting Accellion, Inc. Accellion’s […]

Yandex Data Breach – Employee Caught Selling Access to User Accounts

Yandex N.V. is a Russian Dutch-domiciled multinational corporation providing Internet-related products and services including transportation, search and information services, eCommerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising. They provide over 70 services. Yandex is the popular leading search engine and E-mail provider in Russia. They announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening […]

Antivirus Firm Exposed Internal Log data Generated by their Products

EMSISOFT, Antivirus Firm revealed a data breach on one of their test systems. The company used the system to evaluate and benchmark possible solutions relating to the storage and management of the log data generated by their products and services. Quickly after becoming aware of the breach, the company took the affected system offline and […]

Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State

The Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) on Monday said it’s investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance (FTA) […]

Over 500,000 Credentials of two Dozen Leading Gaming Firms Leaked Online

Tel Aviv-based threat intelligence firm Kela has warned gaming companies to improve their cybersecurity posture after discovering 500,000 breached employee credentials and a million compromised internal accounts on the dark web. With the rise of gamers and purchases, the online gaming industry is estimated to reach $196 billion in revenue by 2022. On the other hand, the […]

MOSINT – OSINT Tool For Emails

  MOSINT is an OSINT Tool for emails. It helps you gather information about the target email. Features: Verification Service { Check if email exist } Check social accounts with Socialscan Check data breaches [need API] Find related emails Find related phone numbers Find related domains Scan Pastebin Dumps Google Search DNS Lookup You can […]

Oblivion – Data Leak Checker And OSINT Tool

  Oblivion is a tool focused in real time monitoring of new data leaks, notifying if the credentials of the user has been leak out. It’s possible too verify if any credential of user has been leak out before. The Oblivion have two modes: Oblivion Client: graphical mode. Oblivion Server: mode with API functionalities. NOTE: […]

Police Arrest 21 WeLeakInfo Customers Who Bought Breached Personal Data

21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfo[.]com, a now-defunct online service that had been previously selling access to data hacked from other websites. The suspects used stolen personal credentials to commit further cyber and fraud offences, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) said. […]

Microsoft Says Its Systems Were Also Breached in Massive SolarWinds Hack

The massive state-sponsored espionage campaign that compromised software maker SolarWinds also targeted Microsoft, as the unfolding investigation into the hacking spree reveals the incident may have been far more wider in scope, sophistication, and impact than previously thought. News of Microsoft’s compromise was first reported by Reuters, which also said the company’s own products were […]