The notorious Everest Ransomware group has made waves with a bold public announcement, claiming responsibility for a massive data breach involving American apparel giant Under Armour. According to the group, they have successfully stolen a staggering 340 GB of sensitive data from the company, and they’ve set a strict deadline of just seven days for Under Armour…
WhatsApp is preparing to roll out a new security option called “Strict Account Settings” to help users who believe they’re at risk of cyber attacks. The feature, currently in testing through TestFlight, appears under Privacy > Advanced in the beta version of the app, according to WABetaInfo. Among the changes applied automatically are restrictions on…
The cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will cost an estimated £1.9bn and be the most economically damaging cyber event in UK history, according to researchers. This is the first such estimate from an agency on the hack’s impact on JLR, which accounted for more than 71% of Tata Motors’ ₹4.4 trillion revenue in 2024-25. The…
Crimson Collective, cyber criminal gang claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development respositories, with the company confirming it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances. This data allegedly includes approximately 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which can contain sensitive information about a customer’s network and platforms. Red…
The UAE Cybersecurity Council has warned the public against the dangers of neglecting personal digital footprints, cautioning that every login, post, or interaction online leaves behind a trail that can be exploited by hackers or untrustworthy applications. In a statement carried by the Emirates News Agency (WAM), the council noted that more than 1.4 billion…
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….
