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The car-rental company Hertz is warning its customers that a data breach exposed personal information including driver’s licenses, credit-card data, contact information and in some cases social security or passport numbers. The company said that hackers breached Cleo Communications, a Read More …
NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document. The document was published on Friday as part of the lawsuit that Meta-owned Read More …
MOONSHINE and BADBAZAAR are examples of trojans; they have malicious functions hidden inside an otherwise functioning app that can be downloaded from app stores or online file-sharing services. These apps are designed to trick a user into downloading and installing Read More …
WK Kellogg, the company behind the Kellogg’s cereals, has been hit by a major data breach. Cybercriminals from the ransomware group Clop exploited a vulnerability in the software of an external supplier, stealing employees’ personal data. The data breach took Read More …
Europcar has reportedly suffered a data breach in which it lost sensitive data on hundreds of thousands of customers. A threat actor with the alias ‘Europcar’ posted a new thread in an underground forum, claiming to have “successfully breached Europcar’s Read More …
Security researcher Evan Connelly discovered an enormous flaw affecting one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world that could allow any single person to view the recent incoming call log for potentially any Verizon phone number. A vulnerability in Read More …
A hacker is claiming to have stolen a “highly sensitive” dataset from Check Point – but the company is looking to play down any concerns users might have. The cybercriminal, going by the name of CoreInjection, posted about the dataset Read More …
Oracle is dealing with the fallout of a double data breach — one exposing patient data at US hospitals, and another raising concerns about its cloud security. Reports over the weekend suggest a breach at Oracle Health, formerly known as Read More …
An NHS software provider has been fined £3m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over security failings that led to a ransomware attack on the NHS. The Advanced Computer Software Group was fined for a breach that put personal information Read More …
The Ministry of Defence is investigating after a cache of documents containing sensitive military information was found discarded in the street. The papers, some marked “official – sensitive”, were discovered spilling out of a black bin bag in the Scotswood Read More …