Threats
UK government commits to doing more to prevent data breaches in the public sector
The government of the United Kingdom is taking additional measures to raise awareness of information security in the public sector.
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Fashion retailer Mango discloses data breach, exposing personal information of customers
Spanish fashion retailer Mango has acknowledged that an unauthorized party managed to access personal information of customers.
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DOJ seizes $15B in crypto from Cambodian national for “pig butchering” scam
The United States Department of Justice has seized a total of 127,271 bitcoin, which is currently worth approximately $15 billion, from Chen Zhi.
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NCSC reports record number of “nationally significant” cyberattacks
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) handled a record of 204 nationally significant cyberattacks in the past twelve months to August, compared to 89 a year earlier.
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Authorities take down over 1,400 domains used for cybertrading fraud
Law enforcement authorities from Germany and Bulgaria, in cooperation with Europol, managed to take down the technical infrastructure of cybercriminals who operated a total of 1,406 illegal domains.
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EU is postponing vote on chat control due to lack of support
There will be no vote next week on a proposal by Denmark to introduce chat control. The Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union has removed the vote from the agenda because of insufficient support.
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Discord reports theft of IDs during manual age verification
An attacker managed to gain access to systems belonging to a third party that’s being used for customer service. During the incident, an unknown quantity of identity documents provided for age verification were leaked.
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European Commission launches probe against SAP for anticompetitive behavior
The European Commission has launched an official investigation into SAP to determine whether the software developer has distorted competition in the maintenance and support services market.
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Jaguar Land Rover confirms data theft after recent cyberattack
British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover acknowledges that “some data” has been stolen during a recent cybersecurity incident.
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Europol adds Ukrainian national to Most Wanted list for major ransomware attacks all around the world
Europol has included a “high-value cybercrime suspect” on the EU’s Most Wanted list. It concerns a Ukrainian national who is believed to be a leading figure in an organized crime network and is responsible for carrying out numerous cyberattacks.
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Scammers pretend to be USPTO, this is how to protect yourself
Fraudsters are impersonating the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), urging gullible business owners to immediately pay a large sum of money to protect their trademark or intellectual property (IP).
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Czech cybersecurity agency issues warning for data transfers to China
NÚKIB, the National Cyber and Information Security Authority from the Czech Republic, is warning its citizens, businesses, and organizations of threats by transferring user data to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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Senior citizens lost $700M to scammers in 2024
Scammers are stealing the life savings of retirees more and more. Last year, US citizens over the age of 60 reported losses of over $700 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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28,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers are still missing a critical emergency patch
According to The Shadowserver Foundation, over 28,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers haven’t installed an emergency patch that was released last week.
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“Bad actor” targets Cisco representative with vishing attack, user data obtained
A Cisco representative was recently involved in a voice phishing or “vishing” attack. The attackers stole private information from Cisco.com users.
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Cloudflare: ‘Perplexity’s AI bots ignore no-crawl directives’
Perplexity’s AI bots crawl and scrape content from websites, but when the AI bots come across a network block, they obscure their crawling identity to circumvent the website’s preferences.
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AI-generated CSAM on the rise, IWF says
In the first half of the year, a total of 1,286 AI-generated videos showing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) have surfaced online, the Internet Watch Foundation says.
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Europol is warning law enforcement agencies about the hidden economy of stolen data
Cybercriminals are turning personal data and other stolen information into ‘high-value commodities’, fueling a criminal ecosystem that spans from online fraud and ransomware to child exploitation and extortion.
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Victoria’s Secret website offline for multiple days after ‘security incident’
The website of lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret has been down for numerous days due to a ‘security incident.’
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North Korean hackers launched espionage campaign against Ukrainian government
State-sponsored hackers from North Korea have targeted several Ukrainian government bodies in a new espionage campaign.
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