Tuesday , December 24 2024

Singapore-Based Absolute Telecom Allegedly Hit by Cyberattack

GhostR hacker claimed to hack Absolute Telecom PTE Ltd, a Singapore-based telecom company and stole 34 gigabytes of data including corporate information, accounting records, sales data, customer details, credit card information, and call records. In a post the bad actor claimed they infiltrated and compromised the company’s server networks on May 15, 2024.

Absolute Telecom, based in Singapore, offers voice call services to businesses. These include SIP Trunking, Enterprise PBX solutions, Ribbon Enterprise Products, and Telco grade IVR.

Splunk targets Bangladeshi market: Investing in local talent

Splunk, a unified security and observability platform turn its focuses on Bangladeshi market. On Monday (23 December) Splunk's local partner...
Read More
Splunk targets Bangladeshi market: Investing in local talent

Critical PHP Zero-Day Vulnerability found in Craft CMS To Gain RCE

A major security flaw in Craft CMS, a popular PHP content management system, has been found, enabling unauthenticated remote code...
Read More
Critical PHP Zero-Day Vulnerability found in Craft CMS To Gain RCE

For US$2.6bn, Mastercard acquires threat intelligence firm Recorded Future

Mastercard has completed its acquisition of Recorded Future, an AI-based threat intelligence provider. Mastercard has acquired the company for $2.65...
Read More
For US$2.6bn, Mastercard acquires threat intelligence firm Recorded Future

Eight New ICS Advisories released by CISA

CISA has released eight advisories on vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). These vulnerabilities affect essential software and hardware in...
Read More
Eight New ICS Advisories released by CISA

Authority Denies
Hacker claim ransomware attack on Indonesia’s state bank BRI

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), the largest state bank by assets, has assured customers that their data and funds are secure...
Read More
Authority Denies  Hacker claim ransomware attack on Indonesia’s state bank BRI

London-based company “Builder.ai” reportedly exposed 1.2 TB data

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler reported to Website Planet that he found a non-password-protected 1.2 TB dataset containing over 3 million...
Read More
London-based company “Builder.ai” reportedly exposed 1.2 TB data

(CVE-2024-12727, CVE-2024-12728, CVE-2024-12729)
Sophos resolved 3 critical vulnerabilities in Firewall

Sophos has fixed three separate security vulnerabilities in Sophos Firewall.  The vulnerabilities CVE-2024-12727, CVE-2024-12728, and CVE-2024-12729 present major risks, such...
Read More
(CVE-2024-12727, CVE-2024-12728, CVE-2024-12729)  Sophos resolved 3 critical vulnerabilities in Firewall

“Workshop on Cybersecurity Awareness and Needs Analysis” held at BBTA

A time-demanding workshop on "Cybersecurity Awareness and Needs Analysis" was held on Thursday (December 19) at Bangladesh Bank Training Academy...
Read More
“Workshop on Cybersecurity Awareness and Needs Analysis” held at BBTA

CVE-2023-48788
Kaspersky reveals active exploitation of Fortinet Vulnerability

Kaspersky's Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) found that attackers are exploiting a patched SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-48788) in Fortinet FortiClient...
Read More
CVE-2023-48788  Kaspersky reveals active exploitation of Fortinet Vulnerability

U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router TP-Link: WSJ reports

The US government is considering banning a well-known brand of Chinese-made home internet routers TP-Link due to concerns that they...
Read More
U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router TP-Link:  WSJ reports

Absolute Telecom Pte Ltd is a telecommunication company registered in Singapur with annual revenue of $5 million, providing voice call services to enterprise: SIP trunking , Enterprise PBX, Ribbon Enterprise products and telco grade IVR.

GhostR has hacked and breached into Absolute telecom ptd ltd server network on 15th May 2024 and we have stolen over 34GB of their database. This data breach involves corporat, accounting, salse, customers, full credit card details call records etc.” the hacker post reads.

“GhostR recently gained notoriety by threatening to release records stolen from World-Check, a database banks and institutions use to combat financial crimes and enforce sanctions. The threat actor posted a spreadsheet with names of royal family members worldwide, showing accurate information” bankinfosecurity reported.

Source: Screenshot taken from Absolute Telecom Pte Ltd.

Several attempts to communicate to the authority for the clarification failed as Absolute Telecom website is offline and unresponsive while writing the report. The outage is affecting communication with the organization, and there are unanswered questions about security and the measures being taken to deal with the breach.

Source: isitdownrightnow

At the same time isitdownrightnow showed the same things the site is down.

GhostR, a hacker focused on money, became famous claiming to steal a secret database with 5.3 million records from World-Check. They also released around 186GB of data from a stock trading platform.

This is a developing story, We will give an update on the Absolute Telecom data breach as soon as we have more information or official confirmation or statement from the organization.

(Media Disclaimer: This report is based on research conducted internally and externally using different ways. The information provided is for reference only, and users are responsible for relying on it. Infosecbulletin is not liable for the accuracy or consequences of using this information by any means)

Check Also

U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router TP-Link: WSJ reports

The US government is considering banning a well-known brand of Chinese-made home internet routers TP-Link …

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *