Fidelity Investments says data breach affects over 77,000 people

Image: Fidelity InvestmentsFidelity Investments, a Boston-based multinational financial services company, disclosed that the personal information of over 77,000 customers was exposed after its systems were breached in August. As one of the largest asset managers in the world, with $14.1 trillion in assets under administration and $5.5 trillion under management, Fidelity employs over 75,000 associates across 11 […]

GitLab warns of critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw

GitLab has released security updates to address multiple flaws in Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), including a critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2024-9164, allows unauthorized users to trigger Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on any branch of a repository. CI/CD pipelines are automated processes that perform tasks […]

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. […]

CISA says critical Fortinet RCE flaw now exploited in attacks

​Today, CISA revealed that attackers actively exploit a critical FortiOS remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the wild. The flaw (CVE-2024-23113) is caused by the fgfmd daemon accepting an externally controlled format string as an argument, which can let unauthenticated threat actors execute commands or arbitrary code on unpatched devices in low-complexity attacks that don’t […]

Crypto-stealing malware campaign infects 28,000 people

Over 28,000 people from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and other countries in the Eurasian region were impacted by a large-scale cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign. The malware campaign disguises itself as legitimate software promoted via YouTube videos and fraudulent GitHub repositories where victims download password-protected archives that initiate the infection. According to cybersecurity firm Dr. Web, the campaign uses […]