Category: Kamban

A hacker compromised Unicoin’s Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite) account and changed the passwords for all company employees, locking them out of their corporate accounts for days. Unicoin is an asset-backed, audited, and publicly reporting cryptocurrency project. It is the official token of the “Unicorn Hunters” business series, focused on providing novel investment opportunities. In a…

The U.S. government is warning of increased effort from Iran to influence upcoming elections through cyber operations targeting Presidential campaigns and the American public. In a joint statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. says that Iran carried out cyberattacks…

In the beginning of 2024, a major company listed in the Fortune 50 category paid $75 million to the Dark Angels group. This ransom amount is noted as one of the largest ever seen in history. The Dark Angels group first surfaced in May 2022, operating through the Dunghill data leak platform. Initially thought to…

Image: Midjourney The notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group exploited a zero-day flaw in the Windows AFD.sys driver to elevate privileges and install the FUDModule rootkit on targeted systems. Microsoft fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 during its August 2024 Patch Tuesday, along with seven other zero-day vulnerabilities. CVE-2024-38193 is a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD)…

Toyota confirmed that its network was breached after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from the company’s systems on a hacking forum. “We are aware of the situation. The issue is limited in scope and is not a system wide issue,” Toyota told BleepingComputer when asked to validate the threat…

In today’s digital age, data privacy is crucial, with around 80% of countries implementing data protection laws like GDPR in Europe, CCPA in the US, PIPL in China, and DPDP in India. Technology plays a key role in compliance. Encryption and data masking secure sensitive information by making it unreadable to unauthorized users. Additionally, anonymization…

Ransomware victims have paid $459,800,000 to cybercriminals in the first half of 2024, setting the stage for a new record this year if ransom payments continue at this level. Last year, ransomware payments reached a record $1.1 billion, which Chainalysis previously predicted from stats gathered in the first half of the year when ransomware activity grossed $449,100,000.…

​CISA has added a critical Jenkins vulnerability that can be exploited to gain remote code execution to its catalog of security bugs, warning that it’s actively exploited in attacks. Jenkins is a widely used open-source automation server that helps developers automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software through continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery…

Suspected hackers behind the heist of $14,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from blockchain tech firm Holograph was arrested in Italy after living a lavish lifestyle for weeks in the country. As announced over the weekend by Italy’s national police force (Polizia di Stato), four individuals suspected of cybercrime and money laundering have been living in a…

Flight tracking platform FlightAware is asking some users to reset their account login passwords due to a data security incident that may have exposed personal information. The technology company is based in Houston, Texas and provides real-time as well as historical flight tracking data. FlightAware is considered the world’s largest flight-tracking platform with a network…