Data of 235 million Twitter users leaked online

A database containing email addresses of 235,000,000 Twitter users has been offered on a popular hacker forum. A data leak containing email addresses for 235 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum. Many experts have immediately analyzed it and confirmed the authenticity of many of the entries in the huge leaked […]

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January 5, 2023
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Database of the Cricketsocial.com platform left open online

CyberNews reported that Cricketsocial.com, a social platform for the cricket community, exposed private customer data and admin credentials. Cricketsocial.com, is a social platform developed for the cricket community online. CyberNews discovered that a database used by the platform was left open online, it contains a huge trove of data. The Social platform for the cricket […]

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January 4, 2023
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US. rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware

US. rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. Wabtec Corporation is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999. It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. The company employs […]

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January 4, 2023
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Does Volvo Cars suffer a new data breach?

A post published on a popular hacking forum claims Volvo Cars has suffered a new data breach, alleging stolen data available for sale. French cybersecurity Anis Haboubi yesterday first noticed that a threat actor was attempting to sell data allegedly stolen from Volvo Cars on a popular hacking forum. A member of the forum, who […]

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January 3, 2023
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Ransomware attacks hit 105 US local governments in 2022

In 2022, ransomware attacks targeted 105 state or municipal governments or agencies in the US, reads a report published by Emsisoft. According to the “The State of Ransomware in the US: Report and Statistics 2022” report published by Emsisoft, the number of ransomware attacks against government, education and healthcare sector organizations is quite similar to […]

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January 3, 2023
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SecurityAffairs Top 10 cybersecurity posts of 2022

These are the most-read cybersecurity articles that have been published by SecurtiyAffairs in 2022. 1 – Russia-linked actors may be behind an explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas Russian threat actors may be behind the explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas, the incident took place on June 8. 2 […]

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January 2, 2023
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 400 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Personal health information of 42M Americans leaked between 2016 and 2021 Malvertising campaign MasquerAds abuses Google […]

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January 1, 2023
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Personal health information of 42M Americans leaked between 2016 and 2021

Crooks have had access to the medical records of 42 million Americans since 2016 as the number of hacks on healthcare organizations doubled. Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. Researchers from Jama Network analyzed trends in ransomware attacks […]

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January 1, 2023
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Cyber Security Roundup for July 2021

    A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, June 2021.How was UK Government Building CCTV Leaked?The Sun newspaper published …

July 4, 2021
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