Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2023
Cloud services provider Rackspace confirmed that the recent data breach was the result of the Play Ransomware gang’s attack. Cloud services provider Rackspace announced this week that the recent data breach was the result of an attack conducted by the Play ransomware group. The ransomware attack took place on December 2, 2022, threat actors exploited a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2023
Enterprise collaboration platform Slack disclosed a data breach, hackers stole some of its private source code repositories. The enterprise collaboration platform Slack has announced to have suffered a security breach, threat actors have stolen some of its private source code repositories. The company pointed out that its customers were not affected. “We recently became aware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2023
A database containing email addresses of 235,000,000 Twitter users has been offered on a popular hacker forum. A data leak containing email addresses for 235 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum. Many experts have immediately analyzed it and confirmed the authenticity of many of the entries in the huge leaked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2023
CyberNews reported that Cricketsocial.com, a social platform for the cricket community, exposed private customer data and admin credentials. Cricketsocial.com, is a social platform developed for the cricket community online. CyberNews discovered that a database used by the platform was left open online, it contains a huge trove of data. The Social platform for the cricket […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2023
US. rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. Wabtec Corporation is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999. It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. The company employs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2023
In 2022, ransomware attacks targeted 105 state or municipal governments or agencies in the US, reads a report published by Emsisoft. According to the “The State of Ransomware in the US: Report and Statistics 2022” report published by Emsisoft, the number of ransomware attacks against government, education and healthcare sector organizations is quite similar to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2023
These are the most-read cybersecurity articles that have been published by SecurtiyAffairs in 2022. 1 – Russia-linked actors may be behind an explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas Russian threat actors may be behind the explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas, the incident took place on June 8. 2 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2023
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. Personal health information of 42M Americans leaked between 2016 and 2021 Malvertising campaign MasquerAds abuses Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2022
Crooks have had access to the medical records of 42 million Americans since 2016 as the number of hacks on healthcare organizations doubled. Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. Researchers from Jama Network analyzed trends in ransomware attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2022
The website for the Port of Lisbon is still down days after it was the target of a ransomware attack claimed by Lockbit group. The Port of Lisbon is the third-largest port in Portugal and one of the main European ports due to its strategic location. The website of the port was hit by a cyber attack on […]
