Cancer patients' sensitive information accessed by "unidentified parties" after being left exposed by screening lab for years
A medical lab that specialises in cancer screenings has admitted to an alarming data breach that left sensitive patient information exposed for years - and accessible by unauthorised parties. California-based Guardant Health is notifying affected individuals that information related to samples collected in late 2019 and 2020 was "inadvertently" left exposed online to the general public after an employee mistakenly uploaded it. READ MORE...
UK Military Data Breach a Reminder of Third-Party Risk in Defense Sector
The disclosure of a breach exposing data on over 225,000 UK military personnel underscores the global security risks associated with external contractors to defense entities. The exposure, which came to light just this week, stemmed from a threat actor accessing the names, bank account details, and other information for current, former, and reserve members of the British Army, Naval Service, and Royal Air Force from a company handling payroll services for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). READ MORE...
Desperate Taylor Swift fans defrauded by ticket scams
Ticket scams are very common and apparently hard to stop. When there are not nearly enough tickets for some concerts to accommodate all the fans that desperately want to be there, it makes for ideal hunting grounds for scammers. With a ticket scam, you pay for a ticket and you either don't receive anything or what you get doesn't get you into the venue. Lloyds Bank estimates that fans have lost an estimated £1m ($1.25 m) in ticket scams ahead of the UK leg of Taylor Swift's Eras tour. READ MORE...
Generative AI is a looming cybersecurity threat
IBM X-Force hasn't seen any AI-engineered campaigns, yet, but mentions of AI and ChatGPT are proliferating on the dark web. The identified over 800,000 references to the emerging technology on illicit and dark web forums last year. While X-Force does expect AI-enabled attacks in the near term, the real threat will emerge when AI enterprise adoption matures. Right now, there are simply too many AI systems at play. READ MORE...
FBI warns of gift card fraud ring targeting retail companies
The FBI warned retail companies in the United States that a financially motivated hacking group has been targeting employees in their gift card departments in phishing attacks since at least January 2024. Tracked as Storm-0539, this hacking group targets the personal and work mobile devices of retail department staff using a sophisticated phishing kit that enables them to bypass multi-factor authentication. READ MORE...
Zscaler takes "test environment" offline after rumors of a breach
Zscaler says that they discovered an exposed "test environment" that was taken offline for analysis after rumors circulated that a threat actor was selling access to the company's systems. In a Wednesday afternoon post, Zscaler initially stated that its ongoing investigation showed no evidence that its customer or production environments were breached. A Zscaler employee also shared on Mastodon that the company investigated the rumors and that they are "completely inaccurate and unfounded." READ MORE...
Critical vulnerabilities in BIG-IP appliances leave big networks open to intrusion
Researchers on Wednesday reported critical vulnerabilities in a widely used networking appliance that leaves some of the world's biggest networks open to intrusion. The vulnerabilities reside in BIG-IP Next Central Manager, a component in the latest generation of the BIG-IP line of appliances organizations use to manage traffic going into and out of their networks. Seattle-based F5, which sells the product, says its gear is used in 48 of the top 50 corporations as tracked by Fortune. READ MORE...
- ...in 1945, top-ranking Nazi official Herrman Goering is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army.
- ...in 1949, singer-songwriter and pianist Billy Joel is born in the Bronx, NYC.
- ...in 1958, Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" has its world premiere in San Francisco.
- ...in 1974, the US House Judiciary Committee opens formal impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
