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Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2024
Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach

Healthcare firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach caused by a partner’s compromised account that exposed protected health information. Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach after a partner’s compromised account was used to access its systems. The intruders have stolen protected health information from the company systems. The company discovered an anomalous behavior from […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2024
Brazil data protection authority bans Meta from training AI models with data originating in the country

Brazil’s data protection authority temporarily banned Meta from using data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. Brazil’s data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has imposed a temporary ban on Meta from processing users’ personal data for training its artificial intelligence (AI) models. “The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) issued […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2024
Splunk fixed tens of flaws in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform

Technology company Splunk released security updates to address 16 vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform. Technology company Splunk addressed 16 vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform, including four high-severity flaws. The vulnerability CVE-2024-36985 is a Remote Code Execution (RCE) through an external lookup due to “copybuckets.py“ script in the “splunk_archiver“ application in Splunk […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2024
Operation Morpheus took down 593 Cobalt Strike servers used by threat actors

An international law enforcement operation code-named Operation Morpheus led to the takedown of 593 Cobalt Strike servers used by crooks. An international law enforcement operation, code-named Operation Morpheus, aimed at combatting the criminal abuse of an older, unlicensed version of the Cobalt Strike red teaming tool. The Cobalt Strike platform was developed for Adversary Simulations […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2024
LockBit group claims the hack of the Fairfield Memorial Hospital in the US

The LockBit ransomware group breached another hospital in the United States, the victim is the Fairfield Memorial Hospital in Illinois. It has happened again, another US healthcare organization suffered a security breach, this time the victim is the Fairfield Memorial Hospital in Illinois. Fairfield Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit critical access hospital located in Fairfield, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2024
American Patelco Credit Union suffered a ransomware attack

The American credit union Patelco Credit Union shut down several of its banking systems to contain a ransomware attack. Patelco Credit Union is a member-owned, not-for-profit credit union that serves Northern California, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1936, it is one of the oldest and largest credit unions in the country. With more […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2024
Polish government investigates Russia-linked cyberattack on state news agency

The Polish government is investigating a potential connection between Russia and a cyberattack on the country’s state news agency. The Polish government is investigating a suspected link between Russia and the cyberattack on the country’s state news agency Polish Press Agency (PAP). “The Polish Press Agency (PAP) has been hit by a cyberattack; all pertinent […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2024
Prudential Financial data breach impacted over 2.5 million individuals

Prudential Financial confirmed that more than 2.5 million individuals were affected by the data breach it suffered in February 2024. The insurance company Prudential Financial confirmed that the data breach it suffered in February 2024 affected over 2.5 million individuals. The incident occurred on February 4, 2024, and was discovered on February 5, 2024. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2024
Australian man charged for Evil Twin Wi-Fi attacks on domestic flights

An Australian man has been charged with carrying out ‘Evil Twin’ Wi-Fi attack during a domestic flight to steal user credentials and data. An Evil Twin Wi-Fi attack is a type of cyberattack where a threat actor sets up a rogue wireless access point that mimics a legitimate one. The goal is to trick users […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2024
China-linked APT exploited Cisco NX-OS zero-day to deploy custom malware

Cisco fixed an actively exploited NX-OS zero-day, the flaw was exploited to install previously unknown malware as root on vulnerable switches. Cisco addressed an NX-OS zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score of 6.0), that the China-linked group Velvet Ant exploited to deploy previously unknown malware as root on vulnerable switches. The flaw resides in the […]