Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2024

Earlier this year, Russian cyber spies breached UK government systems and stole sensitive data and emails, reported The Record media. Earlier this year, Russia’s foreign intelligence service stole internal emails and data on individuals from the UK government. ” reported The Record Media. .

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APRIL 5, 2025

Port of Seattle is notifying 90,000 people of a data breach after personal data was stolen in a ransomware attack in August 2024. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. ” concludes the notice.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

SentinelLABS researchers analyzed a data leak that suggests that the Chinese cybersecurity firm TopSec offers censorship-as-a-service services. The origin of the data leak is unclear, the leak is large and inconsistently formatted, complicating the full analysis. ” reads the report published by SentinelLabs.

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DECEMBER 29, 2024

notifies customers of credit card data breach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce providerBigCommerce. What Information Was Involved?

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a digital renaissance, transforming how we process, analyze, and utilize data. But as AI systems become more sophisticated and pervasive, a critical question emerges: How do we ensure the data feeding these systems is accurate, secure, and ethically managed?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Ukraine’s NCCC banned the Telegram app for government agencies, military, and critical infrastructure, due to national security concerns. ” Despite the ban on military and government devices, Ukrainian users rely heavily on Telegram to communicate and receive news on ongoing conflicts. ” continues the announcement.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Cisco addressed vulnerabilities that were exploited to compromise the Webex meetings of the German government. In early May, German media outlet Zeit Online revealed that threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in the German government’s implementation of the Cisco Webex software to access internal meetings.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 26, 2024

National Police Probe Botnet Campaign That Infected 3,000 Machines The French government has launched an investigation into a suspected Chinese espionage campaign that infected thousands of networks in France. The botnet campaign pushed out the PlugX remote access Trojan that has infected 3,000 machines in France since 2020.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The Australian government announced sanctions for a member of the REvil ransomware group for the Medibank hack that occurred in 2022. The Australian government announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov (aka GustaveDore, aiiis_ermak, blade_runner, JimJones), a Russian national who is a member of the REvil ransomware group.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It serves as a centralized and comprehensive management platform for VMware’s virtualized data centers. ” Chinese law requires researchers to disclose zero-day vulnerabilities to the government. Experts speculate that the Chinese government was aware of the flaw and may have exploited it as a zero-day.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2025

Hertz Corporation disclosed a data breach after customer data was stolen via Cleo zero-day exploits in late 2024, affecting Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands. Car rental giant Hertz Corporation disclosed a data breach that impacted its Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands. In January, a spokesperson for U.S.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Thomvest Ventures Leads Series B Funding to Support Privacy and Security Compliance Relyance AI raised $32 million in Series B funding to grow its data governance platform.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures. The US agencies confirmed that Chinese threat actors had compromised the private communications of a “limited number” of government officials following the compromise of multiple U.S.

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Collibra

APRIL 17, 2025

Managing data at a fully online university presents unique challenges. In a recent episode of Data Citizens Dialogues , Garth Gelbach , Head of Data Governance at Western Governors University (WGU) , described how the university transitioned from fragmented data management to a more structured governance model.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

The UK Ministry of Defense disclosed a data breach at a third-party payroll system that exposed data of armed forces personnel and veterans. The UK Ministry of Defense disclosed a data breach impacting a third-party payroll system that exposed data of approximately 272,000 armed forces personnel and veterans.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The government agencies released a guide that advises telecom and critical infrastructure defenders on best practices to strengthen network security against PRC-linked and other cyber threats. are essential for protecting data. A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S.

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AIIM

JANUARY 2, 2025

When Systems Don't Talk to Each Other In my organization, we have dozens of corporate systems, and all of them do really important things as part of the work of the organization. But if somebody wants to ask a question like, "How are we providing services into a particular community?"

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Fortinet disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed the theft of 440GB of files from the company’s Microsoft Sharepoint server. The threat actor taunted the company, doubting its capabilities even after the acquisition of firms specializing in cloud security and data loss prevention. FYI, DLP is Data Loss Prevention.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Texas Tech University reports a data breach affecting 1.4 million, exposing personal, health, and financial data from its health sciences centers. Texas Tech University disclosed a data breach that impacted over 1.4 terabytes of data, including patient data, medical research, and a large set of SQL databases.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

Nation-state actor UAT4356 has been exploiting two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks. Threat actors used Line Dancer to execute various commands, including disabling syslog, extracting configuration data, generating packet captures, and executing CLI commands.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Greylock McKinnon Associates, a service provider for the Department of Justice, suffered a data breach that exposed data of 341650 people. GMA disclosed a data breach that impacted medicare and other information belonging to 5465 people. The data breach occurred on May 30, 2023, and was discovered on February 7, 2024.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach. reads the press release published by the agency.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

National Security Agency (NSA) admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to monitor Americans’ activity online without a court order. The data acquired by the intelligence agency can reveal the websites visited by the US citizens and what apps they use. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,

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APRIL 26, 2024

Media reported [ 1 , 2 ] that the company is notifying millions of current and former members of a data breach. Shared data include names, IP addresses, and information about members’ operations on the company website and mobile apps. The exposed data included names, medical records, dates of service, and lab test results.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2024

MoneyGram disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack in September, during which threat actors stole customer data. MoneyGram now confirmed that the cyberattack exposed customer data, including contact info (such as phone numbers, email and postal addresses), government IDs, Social Security numbers, and transaction details.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

The threat actor, going by the alias ‘CiberinteligenciaSV,’ posted the 144 GB data dump to Breach Forums, writing that the leak included 5,129,518 high-definition photos, each labeled with the corresponding Salvadorian’s document identification (DUI) number.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2024

The threat actors used exploits for the above issues in attacks against organizations in various sectors globally, allowing the APT group to access sensitive data and deploy infrastructure for ongoing data collection. The joint advisory includes a list of known vulnerabilities that should be addressed as soon as possible.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recently the leak of a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon, exposed Chinese hacking capabilities. An analyst based in Taiwan, known as Azaka, discovered the data leak and shared their findings on social media. ” reads an analysis published by SentinelOne.

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