January 9, 2023
CyberSec Roundup – 9th January 2023
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Flying Blue Breach The Flying Blue loyalty program detected suspicious activity on their systems which led to account breaches for their customers. The program is associated which various airlines, including Air France and KLM, who notified their customers that their personal information was exposed as[…]
December 19, 2022
CyberSec Roundup – 19th December, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News The QEH Cyber Attack Barbados’ Queen Elizabeth Hospital disclosed that they fell victim to a cyber attack last week. Since its internal I.T. systems were compromised by the attack, many operations at the facility were disrupted, such as radiology scans and prescription filling. The nature[…]
December 12, 2022
CyberSec Roundup – 12th December, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News DDoS Attack on #2 Bank in Russia The Russian state-owned bank VTB was hit with the largest cyberattack in its history, which disrupted access to its website and mobile app. A hacktivist called “IT Army of Ukraine” that supports Ukraine took responsibility for the DDoS[…]
December 5, 2022
CyberSec Roundup – 5th December, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Major Rackspace Exchange Online Outage Rackspace’s hosted Exchange environments were recently compromised by a cyber-attack. The company proactively shut down the environment to contain the issue, which resulted in Exchange Online customers not being able to send or receive email. The company has not provided[…]
November 21, 2022
CyberSec Roundup – 21st November, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Stealing Discord Tokens with Ransomware Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs discovered a new brand of ransomware called AXLocker. Ransomware operators can not only encrypt a victim’s files, but also steal the user’s Discord token, if they use the app. This will allow a threat actor[…]
November 14, 2022
CyberSec Roundup – 14th November, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Black Basta disrupts Sobeys The second-largest supermarket chain in Canada suffered a cyberattack that caused disruptions to its operations. While Sobeys has not disclosed details of the attack, Black Basta Ransomware appears to be responsible for the ransomware attack. New Email Scam There is a[…]
CyberSec Roundup – 24th October, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Microsoft Exposes Business Customers’ Data Microsoft confirmed that a database misconfiguration led to the exposure of sensitive customer data. The 2.4 terabytes of data were primarily comprised of transactions between Microsoft and prospective customers worldwide, between 2017 and 2022. Microsoft fixed the problem and notified[…]
CyberSec Roundup – 17th October, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Toyota Data Exposure Toyota confirmed a potential data leak leaked which exposed information for 300,000 customers between December 2017 and September 2022. Customers who subscribed to the company’s T-Connect system during that time were the ones affected, due to access keys for the system being[…]
CyberSec Roundup – 10th October, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Ferrari Hacked? Soon after Ferrari publicized their partnership with BitDefnder, the RansonEXX group announced they stole 7GB of data from the company. After an internal investigation, the company denies that its systems were hacked, and confirmed there was no disruption to their business operations. The[…]
CyberSec Roundup – 3rd October, 2022
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Worst Cyber-Attack in Australian History The Australian telecommunications company Optus suffered a major cyber attack that exposed customer information for at least 10 million customers. A $1 million ransom was demanded from the threat actor “Optusdata” after they posted a sample of the stolen data.[…]
