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Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 396

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Google fixed the ninth actively exploited Chrome zeroday this year A new Linux flaw can be […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2022
Lastpass discloses the second security breach this year

LastPass disclosed a new security breach, threat actors had access to its cloud storage using information stolen in the August 2022 breach. Password management solution LastPass disclosed a new security breach, the attackers had access to a third-party cloud storage service using information stolen in the August 2022 breach. The impacted cloud storage service is […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 395

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Data from 5.4M Twitter users obtained from multiple threat actors and combined with data from other […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2022
Data from 5.4M Twitter users obtained from multiple threat actors

The massive data breach suffered by Twitter that exposed emails and phone numbers of its customers may have impacted more than five million users. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The threat actor offered […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 394

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. DEV-0569 group uses Google Ads to distribute Royal Ransomware Black Friday and Cyber Monday, crooks are […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2022
Happy birthday Security Affairs … 11 years together!

Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! Eleven years together! I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and since then the blog was visited by tens of millions of readers. Thank you! Eleven years ago I decided to launch Security Affairs, a blog that is considered today one of the most valuable sources of the cybersecurity […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2022
Lockbit gang leaked data stolen from global high-tech giant Thales

The Lockbit 3.0 ransomware gang started leaking the information allegedly stolen from the global high-tech company Thales. Thales is a global high-tech leader with more than 81,000 employees worldwide. The Group invests in digital and deep tech innovations – big data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2022
Canadian supermarket chain giant Sobeys suffered a ransomware attack

Sobeys, the second-largest supermarket chain in Canada, was he victim of a ransomware attack conducted by the Black Basta gang. Sobeys Inc. is the second largest supermarket chain in Canada, the company operates over 1,500 stores operating across Canada under a variety of banners. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited, a Canadian business conglomerate. During […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2022
An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank

An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its systems for sale on Telegram. A threat actor (0x_dump) claims to have hacked the multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its network for sale online. The security researcher Dominic Alvieri was one of the first experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2022
Medibank confirms ransomware attack impacting 9.7M customers, but doesn’t pay the ransom

Australian health insurer Medibank confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million current and former customers were exposed as a result of a ransomware attack. Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M of current and former customers were exposed as a result of a recent ransomware attack. Medibank is one of the […]