Tag: security

A set of 57 Chrome extensions with 6,000,000 users have been discovered with very risky capabilities, such as monitoring browsing behavior, accessing cookies for domains, and potentially executing remote scripts. These extensions are ‘hidden,’ meaning they don’t show up on Chrome Web Store searches, nor do search engines index them, and can only be installed […]

Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize confirms that data was stolen from its U.S. business systems during a November 2024 cyberattack. “Based on our investigation to date, certain files were taken from some of our internal U.S. business systems,” a spokesperson confirmed to BleepingComputer. “Since the incident was detected, our teams have been working diligently to determine […]

Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised devices. This exposure is being reported by threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation, which initially reported 14,000 devices were exposed. Today, Shadowserver’s Piotr Kijewski told BleepingComputer that the cybersecurity organization […]

Russian state-sponsored espionage group Midnight Blizzard is behind a new spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic entities in Europe, including embassies. Midnight Blizzard, aka ‘Cozy Bear’ or ‘APT29,’ is a state-sponsored cyberespionage group linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). According to Check Point Research, the new campaign introduces a previously unseen malware loader called ‘GrapeLoader,’ and a […]

Landmark Admin has issued an update to its investigation of a cyberattack it suffered in May 2024, increasing the number of impacted individuals to 1.6 million. Landmark is a Texas-based third-party administrator (TPA) handling policy accounting, regulatory reporting, reinsurance support, and IT systems for major insurers nationwide like Liberty Bankers Life and American Benefit Life. […]

4chan, an infamous online forum, was taken offline earlier today after what appears to be a significant hack and has since been loading intermittently. Members of the Soyjak.party imageboard (also known as The Party) have since claimed to be behind the attack. They also leaked screenshots of admin panels and a list of emails allegedly […]

Car rental giant Hertz Corporation warns it suffered a data breach after customer data for its Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands was stolen in the Cleo zero-day data theft attacks. “On February 10, 2025, we confirmed that Hertz data was acquired by an unauthorized third party that we understand exploited zero-day vulnerabilities within Cleo’s platform […]