In a recent cybersecurity incident, a US telemarketing firm leaked sensitive data of tens of thousands of customers after a misconfiguration of a cloud storage bucket happened. VpnMentor team's Noem Rotem identified the malicious AWS S3 bucket last year on 24 December. The finding was traced back to CallX, a Californian business, and its clients use the analytics service to strengthen their inbound marketing and media buying. As per the website, the company lends marketplace Lending tree, security provider Vivint and Liberty Mutual Insurance to its customers.
Malaysia Airlines has educated Enrich frequent flyer individuals of a “data security incident” via a third-party IT service provider, demanding the breach avoided the national carrier’s core IT infrastructure and systems. The airline had conveyed an emailer to Enrich members this week, expressing it was informed of a "data security incident" at the third-party IT supplier. The breach included "some personal data" and happened sometime between March 2010 and June 2019, it said, adding that these details incorporated members name, date of birth, contact data, and different frequent flyer information like number, status, and tier level.
Among every state-sponsored hacking group that has attacked the U.S power grid, and went beyond to compromise American Electric Utilities, only Sandworm, a Russian Espionage group, has been bold enough to activate real blackouts, compelling lights shutdown in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016. A firm that emphasizes grid security has issued a warning that a criminal group that has links to Sandworm's highly sophisticated hackers has been successfully attacking US energy systems and it's been years.
Wired reports, "Dragos ties Kamacite to electric grid intrusions not just in the US, but also to European targets well beyond the well-publicized attacks in Ukraine. That includes a hacking campaign against Germany's electric sector in 2017." Recently, Dragos, an industrial cybersecurity firm issued its yearly report on the current state of industrial controls systems security. The report has identified four new foreign criminal groups which target these critical infrastructure systems. Three of these four groups have attacked US industrial control systems.
An anonymous user offered 14 million data from Amazon and eBay accounts on a prominent hacking website for dissemination. The details seem to have been obtained from customers of Amazon or eBay having accounts from 18 countries between 2014-2021.
American cable and Internet giant Comcast was struck by a data breach few days back. An unprotected developer database with 1.5 billion data records and other internal information was available via the Internet to third parties during this data breach.
Cybercriminal group recognized as Pysa/Mespinoza has leaked the sensitive information stolen from the Hackney Council on the Darknet website. The group of attackers claimed that the stolen documents are from Hackney Council in a ransomware attack last year. The council in East London stated that they are collaborating with the Ministry of Housing and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to scrutinize and perceive the impact of the incident.
The MyOffice platform, the Russian equivalent of Microsoft Office 365, is conquering Africa. The Russian software developer has signed deals for the licensing of the MyOffice package with the governments of Cameroon, Burundi, and the Congo. In the future, the Russian company plans to enter the markets of 23 more African countries.
An important advantage of the information product for customers was the absence of the need to store data on foreign servers.
"We can be sure that government secrets will be protected from hackers or any third parties," said Minister of Education of Cameroon Laurent Etundi.
Dmitry Komissarov, founder and CEO of MyOffice, said that sales in Africa can make up 15% of the company's total revenue. "We were very surprised by the growth of the project in Africa,” added he.
"MyOffice is a small company. It is expected that this year its total income will be $26 million. However, the company is supported by Kaspersky Lab, which had sales of almost $700 million last year. The administration of President Vladimir Putin also helped promote the company in Africa.
Years of declining oil revenues have pushed Putin to find other ways to expand trade, including with Africa. Some MyOffice agreements are a consequence of a summit held last year in Sochi to promote trade with Africa. A representative of the Russian Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications was present at the signing of the agreement between the company and Congo.
Millions of people in Africa are only now beginning to access the Internet. According to the GSMA, more than 300 million devices will be connected to the Internet in sub-Saharan Africa by 2026.