Rising healthcare breaches driven by hacking and unsecured servers

2020 was a bad year for healthcare organizations in the U.S., which had to deal with a record-high number of cybersecurity incidents on the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hacking and IT incidents affected the industry to a larger extent Read More …

Singtel, QIMR Berghofer report Accellion-related data breaches

Singtel and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute are the latest companies to disclose data breaches caused by a vulnerability in the Accellion FTA secure file transfer software. Accellion is a developer of secure file transfer products that allow organizations Read More …

Hackers steal StormShield firewall source code in data breach

Leading French cybersecurity company StormShield disclosed that their systems were hacked, allowing a threat actor to access the company’s support ticket system and steal source code for Stormshield Network Security firewall software. StormShield is a French cybersecurity firm that develops Read More …

SonicWall firewall maker hacked using zero-day in its VPN device

Security hardware manufacturer SonicWall has issued an urgent security notice about threat actors exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in their VPN products to perform attacks on their internal systems. SonicWall is a well-known manufacturer of hardware firewall devices, VPN gateways, and Read More …

Hackers leak stolen Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data online

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from its servers in December was leaked online. EMA is a decentralized agency responsible for reviewing and approving COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for Read More …

New Zealand Reserve Bank breached using bug patched on Xmas Eve

A recent data breach at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, known as Te Pūtea Matua, was caused by attackers exploiting a critical vulnerability patched the same day. Over the weekend, the Reserve Bank disclosed that they suffered a data Read More …

United Nations data breach exposed over 100k UNEP staff records

Today, researchers have responsibly disclosed a security vulnerability by exploiting which they could access over 100,000 private employee records of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The data breach stemmed from exposed Git directories and credentials, which allowed the researchers to Read More …