Tag: fidelity national financial
FNF hack exposes 1.3m customer details
US real estate financial services fat cat, Fidelity National Financial (FNF), has revealed details of a cybersecurity breach that occurred in November, exposing the details of 1.3 million customers. An updated filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims the attack, which occurred on November 19, 2023, was detected early on and successfully contained. But despite FNF’s best efforts, over a million customers will wonder if the threat actors behind the breach also believe that their attack has been successfully “contained.” The nature of their target suggests otherwise. A Fortune 500 company, FNF is one of the largest companies of its kind in the US, with an annual revenue of over $10 billion, a market capitalization of $13.3 billion, and a staff of over 23,000 people.
Microsoft’s GitHub: A Growing Platform for Delivering Malicious Payloads – January 12th
A Recorded Future report discloses that Microsoft-owned GitHub is a growing and lucrative platform for threat actors to effectively deliver malicious payloads by blending the payloads with legitimate traffic. The open-source data repository platform's legitimacy is now being leveraged cleverly by threat actors who are "living-off-trusted-sites". However, the limitations in the site's file size and storage stopped large-scale payloads used for data exfiltration from being delivered.
MedTech Company Hit by Cyber Attack – November 21st
LivaNova reported a cyber attack to the SEC, resulting in disruption of the company’s operations. The MedTech company is now in the process of executing its incident response plan and placed some of its systems offline to minimize the damages of the attack.