GitHub Actions is currently being abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency using GitHub’s servers in an automated attack. GitHub Actions is a CI/CD solution that makes it easy to automate all your software workflows and setup periodic tasks. The particular attack adds malicious GitHub Actions code to repositories forked from legitimate ones, and further creates a Pull Request…
Application Security , Application Security & Online Fraud , Breach Notification Three FortiOS Vulnerabilities Being Exploited for the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 3, 2021 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI warn that unidentified nation-state actors are scanning for three vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s operating system, FortiOS, to likely…
A major cache of personal data for more than 500 million Facebook users has been published on hacking forums, in one of the biggest lapses of data protection for the social network so far. The database, published to a hacking forum, contains the personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users around the…
MENLO PARK (AP) — Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. The information appears to be several years old but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites and the limits to how secure that…
New Delhi: A hacker has posted the phone numbers and sensitive account details of nearly 533 million Facebook users — about a fifth of the social networking platform‘s entire user base — including over 61 lakh Indian users which has been dumped on a public cybercrime forum. The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile…
Application Security , Application Security & Online Fraud , Breach Notification Three FortiOS Vulnerabilities Being Exploited for the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 3, 2021 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI warn that unidentified nation-state actors are scanning for three vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s operating system, FortiOS, to likely…
The mobile phone numbers and other personal information for approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free. The stolen data first surfaced on a hacking community in June 2020 when a member began selling the Facebook data to other members. What made this leak stand out was that…
Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Facebook Says Data Comes from Previously Reported 2019 Incident Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 4, 2021 A security researcher has found more than 500 million Facebook records made available for free on the darknet, exposing basic user information, including any phone numbers associated with…
Company Still Recovering From March 1 Attack, SEC Filing Notes Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 1, 2021 The ODP Corp. reports it has suffered a loss of about $28 million due to a March 1 cyber incident at its business services and supplies subsidiary, CompuCom, that forced the company to shut down some…
The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum. The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information. Security researchers warn that the data could be used by hackers to impersonate people and commit fraud. See more stories on Insider’s business page….
