Daily Security Update

Threat actors are getting creative with crypto scams, leading to massive fund drainage from victims’ wallets. One such scam service ended up looting almost $6 million in crypto from over 4,500 victims. Moving on to data breaches, an Iowa hospital notified patients of a data breach that potentially compromised their …

Ransomware actors have been running rampant targeting every sector left, right, and center. In today’s edition, a technology provider fell prey to one, locking customers out of portals and websites. In other news, the threat actor linked to the Triada trojan infected millions of phones – thanks to a preinstalled …

Another day, another new round of supply chain attacks launched via malicious Python packages. Researchers observed over 30 new malicious PyPI packages, some of which were designed to credit card details, crypto wallet information, and login credentials. Moving on, a concerning development in BEC attacks has emerged; scammers are adopting a …

A data breach here, a data breach there, data breaches everywhere. Today, we report to you a collection of data breaches across multiple sectors. The first breach involves a cloud-based education platform, which impacted millions. We also have a new Black Basta ransomware attack on a Swiss MNC. Circling back …

Art and entertainment venues have lately become quite a lucrative target for threat actors aiming to get their hands on customer information. After The Met, the latest victim in the list includes the National Gallery of Canada, which partially lost some operational data in a ransomware attack. A two-year-long analytical …

The education sector seems to be a constant target for cyberattacks. Two such incidents came into the spotlight. The first one includes a Washington school district that fell prey to a phishing scam, costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars. The other incident involves a data breach at the University …

A breach here, a breach there, and a whole lot of disruptions to the victim. In one such incident, Bitmarck had to shut down its systems and now is unsure of when they will be fully up and running. Talking of breaches, T-Mobile suffered another breach; this time affecting over …

It’s almost never a good sign when you see an announcement stating, “We are currently experiencing some computer system issues.” It is most definitely, probably, a cyberattack. Such is the case of a South Carolina county that got hit by a ransomware attack. South Korean institutions are in peril as …

A Massachusetts city became the victim of a cyberattack that severely disrupted its network and systems. Residents have been notified. Let us introduce you to malverposting – threats delivered through social media. In one such campaign, the attacker has been exploiting Facebook Ads. Moving on, security researchers identified two ransomware …

While healthcare providers are reassessing the use of third-party tracking tools and the cyber risks associated with them, a medical technology provider became the latest to disclose a privacy breach. In other news, FIN7 is back in the headlines. It is targeting a vulnerability in Veeam instances. The education sector …