Threat actors are cashing in on the rapid shift to cloud-based business services during the pandemic, by hiding behind ubiquitous, trusted services from Microsoft and Google to make their email phishing scams look legit. And it’s working. In fact, in the first three months of 2021 alone, researchers….
Air India Hack Exposes Credit Card and Passport Info of 4.5 Million Passengers | IT Security News 22. May 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News India’s flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service…
Entornointeligente.com / The state-owned giant said names, credit card numbers and passport information were among the data stolen, adding that the breach involved personal data registered between August 2011 and February 2021. An Air India Airbus A320neo plane takes off in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, December 13, 2017. (Reuters) Hackers have stolen data from about…
DarkSide, the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack earlier this month, received $90 million in bitcoin payments following a nine-month ransomware spree, making it one of the most profitable cybercrime groups. “In total, just over $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments were made to DarkSide, originating from 47 distinct wallets,” blockchain analytics firm…
The Check Point Research team has recently discovered that in the last few months, mobile app developers potentially exposed the private data of over 100 million Android users, by not following best security practices when integrating third-party cloud services into their applications. The Check Point researchers analyzed 23 Android apps, including a screen recorder, a…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Recruitment & Reskilling Strategy Highlights From RSA Conference and Middle East Summit Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • May 21, 2021 Clockwise, from top left: Suparna Goswami, Anna Delaney, Mathew Schwartz and Tom Field Four editors at…
Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following the hack of Passenger Service System provider SITA in February 2021. The Indian national carrier first informed passengers that SITA was the victim of a cyberattack on March 19. “This is to inform that…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Critical Infrastructure Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime House Committee to Probe Ransomware Attack That Led to Pipeline Shutdown Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 21, 2021 Reps. Bennie Thompson (left) and John Katko of the House Homeland Security Committee called for the hearing. After revealing Colonial…
3rd Party Risk Management , Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Critical Infrastructure Security ‘Free’ Decryptors and Promises of Retirement Plans Are Empty Criminal Marketing Spin Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 21, 2021 “The affiliate program is closed. Stay safe and good luck,” DarkSide announced in this May 13 note. (Source:…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware FortiGuard Labs Describes Variant, Which Is No Longer Active Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 20, 2021 New DarkSide code found (Source: FortiGuard) Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have uncovered another DarkSide ransomware variant with destructive capabilities that enabled attackers to seek disk partition information and encrypt the…
