Northern Ireland: Man arrested in connection with PSNI data breach

Detectives investigating criminality linked to the PSNI data breach have arrested a 54-year-old man. Data relating to all 9,483 PSNI officers and staff was mistakenly included in a spreadsheet published online last August in response to a freedom of information Read More …

Bangladesh restores mobile internet after 11-day blackout to quell protests

Bangladesh has restored mobile internet, 11 days after a nationwide blackout was imposed to contain deadly protests over quotas in government jobs. The South Asian nation’s 4G mobile internet services resumed on Sunday, hours after Zunaid Ahmed Palak, the state Read More …

Investigators probe suspected sabotage of French fiber optic network

The disruptions occurred early Wednesday, hitting several — but not all — internet operators. Authorities suggested the damage to the cables was intentional. The prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation on charges of “damaging goods of a nature of harming Read More …

CVE-2024-6922: Automation Anywhere Automation 360 Server-Side Request Forgery

Automation 360 Robotic Process Automation suite v21-v32 is vulnerable to unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). SSRF occurs when the server can be induced to perform arbitrary requests on behalf of an attacker. An attacker with unauthenticated access to the Automation Read More …

Onyx Sleet uses array of malware to gather intelligence for North Korea

On July 25, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted an individual linked to the North Korean threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Onyx Sleet. Microsoft Threat Intelligence collaborated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in tracking Read More …

Pentagon contractor Leidos hit by data breach Internal documents leaked on cybercrime forum

Hackers have reportedly leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., a company with a significant contract portfolio including the US Defense Department, Homeland Security, and NASA. A person with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg News that the company Read More …

Data breach exposes US spyware maker behind Windows, Mac, Android and Chromebook malware

A little-known spyware maker based in Minnesota has been hacked, TechCrunch has learned, revealing thousands of devices around the world under its stealthy remote surveillance. A person with knowledge of the breach provided TechCrunch with a cache of files taken Read More …

Russian banking sector faced DDoS attack planned from abroad

The Russian banking sector was exposed to a DDoS attack planned from overseas, the VTB Bank press service told TASS. “The banking sector was exposed to the DDoS attack orchestrated from overseas. A minor share of VTB clients faced individual Read More …