When three prominent vendors, Palo Alto Networks, ZScaler, and Cloudflare, announced on Tuesday that they were hit by a cyber attack, it was a stark reminder that today’s interconnected enterprise environment means that one vendor’s security hole can hurt users globally. Palo Alto said, “this supply chain attack impacted hundreds of organizations, including Palo Alto Networks”…
Jaguar Land Rover says a cyber-attack has “severely disrupted” vehicle production as well as its retail operation. The firm, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, says it took immediate action to lessen the effect of the hack and is working quickly to restart operations. There was no evidence any customer data had been stolen,…
$330 Billion OT Cyber Risk impacting business at large OT networks under active attack due to critical RCE flaw Attackers are exploiting a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Erlang programming language’s Open Telecom Platform, widely used in OT networks and critical infrastructure. The flaw enables unauthenticated users to execute commands through SSH…
Columbia University has been targeted in a cyberattack where hackers stole the personal information of students, applicants, and employees. The Ivy League school suffered an IT outage on June 24 and on July 1 it revealed that it was caused by hackers who may have stolen data from its network. In an update shared on August 5, Columbia University…
Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. In June, Google warned that a threat actor they classify as ‘UNC6040′ is targeting companies’ employees in voice phishing (vishing) social engineering attacks to breach Salesforce instances and download customer data….
Qantas has suffered a major cyber-attack, potentially exposing the records of up to 6 million customers. The airline said on Wednesday that the affected system had now been contained and its systems were secured. The system in question was a third-party platform used by the airline’s contact centre, which contains the records of 6 million…
Cyber warfare has become a critical in geo p[oltical arena. Cyber tools are being used by states who seeking to exert influence, destabilize adversaries or alter the outcomes of elections of rival nations. Countries such as the United States, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Israel, and others are now deeply involved in invisible cyber battles…
Alkem Labs a US based pharma company, disclosed a cybersecurity breach at a US subsidiary of Enzene Biosciences Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. The incident involved the compromise of business email accounts belonging to certain employees, resulting in the fraudulent transfer of funds. “We wish to inform you that our subsidiary Enzene Biosciences…
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre warned that ongoing cyberattacks impacting multiple UK retail chains should be taken as a “wake-up call.” Part of the GCHQ British intelligence agency, the NCSC provides support and guidance to private and public sector entities following major cybersecurity incidents to protect the UK’s critical services. The NCSC is…
Australian financial services firm FIIG Securities faces legal action from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following a cybersecurity breach that exposed sensitive information of 18,000 clients. The Australian securities watchdog said on Thursday it is taking fixed-income broker FIIG to court, alleging it failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures over a four-year period,…
