Editorial TeamDeepfake Phishing Targets Trump’s Chief of Staff – May 30th
In today’s daily roundup – Deepfake Phishing Targets Trump’s Chief of Staff, ConnectWise Breached by Suspected Nation-State Actor, and Unbound Security Raises $4M Seed Funding.
Victoria’s Secret Shuts Down U.S. Website Amid Security Incident – May 29th
In today’s daily roundup – Victoria’s Secret website faces a security breach, SentinelOne experienced a global service disruption affecting customer-facing services, and Chinese state-sponsored group APT41 is using Google Calendar to embed malware on compromised devices
Cyberattack Shuts Down loanDepot IT Systems – January 8th
In response to complaints regarding its payment portal, loanDepot informed its customers that they fell victim to a cyberattack that shut down its IT systems, disrupting its business operations.
Currently in coordination with law enforcement and forensics experts to further investigate the attack. The attack on loanDepot marks the second major cyberattack on a US mortgage loan provider in the past few months, after the cyberattack on Mr. Cooper.
Cyberattack Halts Albanian Parliament Data System – December 29th
Albania’s Parliament announced it was hit by a cyberattack targeting its data system, resulting in halting the Parliament’s services.
The Albanian Parliament assured that although disrupted, the data was not encrypted by the threat actors and that their services would go back online soon.
MongoDB’s Data Breach Confirmed – December 18th
MongoDB revealed a data breach exposing customer metadata and sensitive information in an email announcement to their customers.
The email, alerting MongoDB’s customers of the cyberattack, also informed customers to be aware of heightened phishing email risk due to the data breach, and to set up multi-factor authentication for their accounts as a phishing safety measure.
Unknown threat actor targets the US Red Cross
The cyber-war just got dirtier. A year or two back, an age in cyber-years, even the most ruthless cyber-gangs avoided attacking medical facilities to create a better public image in the eyes of the hacker community. Their stance has weakened somewhat since then, with attacks on the health sector becoming more common. But a recent attack on the US Red Cross is unusual enough to ring alarm bells outside the cybersecurity community.
Another celebrity account hack leaves fans reeling – September 1st
In this roundup; Trojan apps found on the Google Play Store, LogicMonitor customers are targeted in attacks, and the latest trend of celebrity account hacks.