MANILA, Philippines —A staggering 1,279,437 records belonging to law enforcement agencies, including sensitive police employee information, have been compromised in an unprecedented data breach, as revealed by a report from the leading cybersecurity research company VPNMentor on Tuesday. The massive data hack, which exposed 817.54 gigabytes of both applicant and …

Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the security risk the chatbot poses has been a major topic of discussion among cybersecurity experts. However, the AI chatbot has yet again com]e under the scanner after a report revealed the trade of stolen ChatGPT premium accounts on the dark web. According to …

Rosneft is a Russian-based Oil refinery that specializes in exploration, extraction, production, refining, transport, and sale of petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products. The German branch of Rosneft faced a cyberattack. The Legion group “Anonymous” published a statement that they were responsible for the attack and denoted that they have extracted over …

A renowned security analyst and bug hunter, Nagli (@naglinagli), recently uncovered a critical security vulnerability in ChatGPT. With just a single click, a threat actor could easily exploit the vulnerability and gain complete control of any ChatGPT user’s account. As a result, opening the doors to sensitive data let attackers …

Today, software supply chain security management company Lineaje, released a new report titled “What’s in Your Open-Source Software?” that found 82% of open-source software components are “inherently risky” due to a mix of vulnerabilities, security issues, code quality or maintainability concerns. The report highlighted that while more than 70% of software in the …

LockBit ransomware gang is reportedly developing a new version of malware that can encrypt files on Apple macOS, as revealed by MalwareHunterTeam. This would be the first instance of malware targeting Mac devices, as LockBit has previously focused on Linux and Windows devices. The ransomware group is known for its RaaS (ransomware-as-a-service) operation, lending ransomware …

US payments giant NCR confirmed over the weekend that a data center outage is the result of a ransomware attack. A well-known ransomware group has taken credit for the attack. NCR first reported investigating an “issue” related to its Aloha restaurant point-of-sale (PoS) product on April 12. On April 15, …

A hacker group attacked the websites of Israel’s national mail service and major banks Friday, briefly bringing them down in an assault seemingly timed to coincide with a day of Iranian-promoted anti-Israel events. The attack was quickly squelched, authorities said, with apparently no significant harm or data leaks, though the …

Recently, McAfee’s Mobile Research Team discovered ‘Goldoson,’ a new type of Android malware, has crept into the Google Play store through 60 genuine apps, downloaded by a whopping 100 million users. The sneaky malware component found in all 60 apps was not the developers’ fault. It had been slipped into …

QBot malware is now distributed in phishing campaigns utilizing PDFs and Windows Script Files (WSF) to infect Windows devices. Qbot (aka QakBot) is a former banking trojan that evolved into malware that provides initial access to corporate networks for other threat actors. This initial access is done by dropping additional …