- CISA and Partners Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Newly Identified Truebot Malware Variants
July 6, 2023
Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Increased Truebot Activity Infects U.S. and Canada Based Networks, to help organizations detect and protect against newly identified Truebot malware ...
- Australian horse riding organisations caught up in cyber attack impacting 10,000 people
July 6, 2023
Cyber criminals have targeted yet another Australian small business by stealing and leaking the data of 10,000 people. Last month, the data of a little-known company called Event Secretary was published on an online forum. Unfortunately, Event Secretary was the platform that several major Australian horse riding organisations used to book and enter into equestrian competitions ...
- Japan’s biggest port hit by suspected cyberattack, operations halted
July 5, 2023
The Port of Nagoya, Japan’s largest port by total cargo throughput and responsible for handling some of Toyota Motor Corp.’s car exports, has suffered a crippling system glitch, with the port operator saying Wednesday it suspects a cyberattack. As of noon, the port in central Japan remained unable to load and unload containers from trailers. Police ...
- ChatGPT Shared Links and Information Protection: Risks and Measures Organizations Must Understand
July 5, 2023
Since its initial release in late 2022, the AI-powered text generation tool known as ChatGPT has been experiencing rapid adoption rates from both organizations and individual users. However, its latest feature, known as Shared Links, comes with the potential risk of unintentional disclosure of confidential information. In this article, Trend Micro researchers will examine these risks ...
- Thousands of Fortinet firewalls are unpatched against this serious security bug, so patch now
July 4, 2023
Hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are yet to be patched against a flaw being actively used in the wild, experts have revealed. Cybersecurity researchers from Bishop Fox recently used the Shodan.io search engine for internet-connected devices to look for servers with HTTPS responses that suggested the software was outdated. The results brought back almost 490,000 ...
- TSMC discloses data breach from LockBit-claimed attack against third party
July 4, 2023
Major Taiwanese multinational chip manufacturing firm Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has confirmed experiencing a data breach as a result of a cyberattack against Kinmax, which is one of its IT hardware suppliers, before the end of June, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Such a disclosure comes after the LockBit ransomware ...
- Microsoft Denies Major 30 Million Customer-Breach
July 4, 2023
Microsoft has hit back at claims from a shadowy hacktivist outfit that it managed to breach the company and obtain account access for tens of millions of customers. Anonymous Sudan, which has been linked in the past to pro-Kremlin groups like Killnet, posted the details of its alleged raid on Telegram. Read more… Source: Infosecurity Magazine
- Chinese threat actors targeting Europe in SmugX campaign
July 3, 2023
In the last couple of months, Check Point Research (CPR) has been tracking the activity of a Chinese threat actor targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe. Combined with other Chinese activity previously reported by Check Point Research, this represents a larger trend within the Chinese ecosystem, pointing to a shift to targeting European entities, ...
- ‘Pay and benefits compromised’ in Dublin Airport cyber attack
July 3, 2023
The pay and benefits details of nearly 2,000 staff members of daa, which operates Dublin Airport, were compromised due to a recent cyber attack on professional service provider Aon, the Sunday Times reported. A spokesperson said that as a result of a recent cyber attack on Aon, a third-party provider, data relating to some employees’ pay ...
- Turkish intelligence uncovers ‘ghost’ Mossad network
July 3, 2023
After monthslong surveillance, Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has exposed a “ghost” cell of 56 operatives spying on non-Turkish nationals in the country on behalf of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Documents from MIT revealed that the spies were gathering biographical intelligence on foreign nationals through an online routing method, tracking vehicle movements via GPS, hacking ...
- More sensitive Optus data leaked in major cyberattack on law firm
July 1, 2023
Optus has been caught up in another major cyberattack, with sensitive information about a privacy watchdog investigation into the mobile-phone company breached by Russian hackers. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is one of dozens of government departments and agencies scrambling to find out how much of their data has been breached in a hack ...