Data is increasingly beomcing valuable for businesses, and news stories about major data breaches further point to the importance of data security. Now, SOS Online Backup exposed 135 million records containing the metadata and personal information of its customers. Meanwhile, the video conferencing platform, Zoom, also leaked the personal information of thousands of its users. Let’s quickly glance through the top 10 cybersecurity updates from the past 24 hours.
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California-headquartered cloud backup provider, SOS Online Backup, leaked metadata and customer information stored in over 135 million records, totaling almost 70 GB, via a misconfigured online database.
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Zoom leaked the personal information of thousands of users, while also giving strangers the ability to try start a video call with them through its video conferencing platform.
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Voter contact and canvassing app, Campaign Sidekick, disclosed sensitive information of US voters in a breach incident through a publicly available code repository.
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Cybercriminals managed to gain access to the domain registry account for Escrow[.]com through a spearphishing attack targeting an employee of GoDaddy, their domain registrar.
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A threat actor group dubbed “Geumseong121” was found running a spear-phishing email campaign, targeting people browsing links related to North Korean refugees.
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Researchers discovered a new malware distribution campaign that involves the use of watering-hole attacks on websites focused on a certain religious and ethnic group from Asian countries.
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A NATO report revealed that the Chinese government has a plan to replace the current TCP/IP model with a new internet architecture, broadening the threat landscape, destabilizing security and privacy, and fragmenting the World Wide Web.
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The annual Cisco CISO Benchmark report revealed that the growing complexity in managing enterprise and multi-vendor cybersecurity portfolios is a major contributor to CISO fatigue and weariness.
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Axonius, a New York-based cybersecurity asset management firm, raised $58 million in Series C funding. It has raised $95 million in overall funding to date.
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Maryland-based Sepio Systems secured $4 million in funding from Munich Re Ventures and Hanaco Ventures, totaling $10.5 million for its Series A round.
