- Australia: Identity of hacker behind NSW court website data breach unknown
March 26, 2025
Authorities say they do not know who is behind a data breach at the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) in which thousands of sensitive files were accessed. NSW government officials confirmed about 9,000 sensitive court files, including domestic violence orders and affidavits, were accessed from the NSW Online Reigstry last week. Attorney-General Michael Daley ...
- UK supermarket Morrisons’ sales growth slows after cyber attack
March 26, 2025
British supermarket group Morrisons’ sales growth slowed in its first quarter, reflecting a previously flagged cyber attack at its technology provider which disrupted its operations. The UK’s fifth largest grocer, which has been owned by U.S. private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice since 2021, said on Wednesday its like-for-like sales rose 2.1% in its quarter ...
- Operation ForumTroll: APT attack with Google Chrome zero-day exploit chain
March 25, 2025
In mid-March 2025, Kaspersky technologies detected a wave of infections by previously unknown and highly sophisticated malware. In all cases, infection occurred immediately after the victim clicked on a link in a phishing email, and the attackers’ website was opened using the Google Chrome web browser. No further action was required to become infected. All malicious ...
- KLIA operations not affected after Malaysian airport hit by cyber attack
March 25, 2025
Operations at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) were not affected by a cyber attack by hackers who demanded US$10 million (S$13.4 million). In a joint statement on March 25, the National Cyber Security Agency (Nacsa) and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) said they detected a cyber-security threat affecting certain computer systems at KLIA on March ...
- MoDiRAT Malware Uses Horus Protector to Target France
March 25, 2025
The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team has identified a new development in the Horus Protector distributed infection chain. Recently, it has been targeting the French region with MoDiRAT, a malware notorious for stealing credit card and other victim information. During the infection process, it deploys the DarkCloud stealer; however, before exiting, the loader verifies if ...
- Financial cyberthreats in 2024
March 25, 2025
As more and more financial transactions are conducted in digital form each year, financial threats comprise a large piece of the global cyberthreat landscape. That’s why Kaspersky researchers analyze the trends related to these threats and share an annual report highlighting the main dangers to corporate and consumer finances. This report contains key trends and statistics ...
- Oracle Cloud says it’s not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data
March 23, 2025
Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen. A crook late last week advertised on an online cyber-crime forum what was alleged to be Oracle Cloud customer security keys and other sensitive data swiped from the IT giant. This material was said to have ...
- Russian zero-day seller is offering up to $4 million for Telegram exploits
March 21, 2025
Operation Zero, a company that acquires and sells zero-days exclusively to the Russian government and local Russian companies, announced on Thursday that it’s looking for exploits for the popular messaging app Telegram, and is willing to offer up to $4 million for them. The exploit broker is offering up to $500,000 for a “one-click” remote code ...
- A website mapped Tesla owners and their personal information amid a wave of attacks
March 20, 2025
Tesla owners confirmed on Wednesday that an online map decorated with an image of a Molotov cocktail includes accurate personal information about them, such as residential addresses, raising fears that activists opposed to billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk could target them for vandalism. The online map went live Monday, displaying the names, addresses and contact information ...
- Pennsylvania: Half a million teachers hit in major data breach
March 19, 2025
Even if you practice perfect cyber hygiene, you can still wake up to find yourself amid a major security crisis resulting from a data breach, and that’s exactly what happened to half a million teachers. As reported by The Record, over 500,000 teachers and other employees who work in education across Pennsylvania’s public schools had their ...