With more than five successful cyberattacks this month so far, the Maze ransomware gang is on an unstoppable spree. Now, the group has targeted LG Electronics and claimed to have siphoned off confidential data, including proprietary information related to some major US firms. Another hacker group, meanwhile, breached a social media marketing firm, 'Preen.me,' exposing the personal information of more than 350,000 social media influencers and users. With this, let’s recap the ten key highlights from the cybersecurity world for the day.
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The Maze ransomware group claimed to steal confidential data from LG Electronics, the South Korean electronics giant. The stolen data include proprietary information for projects involving major US firms.
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Hackers attacked the networks of Preen.me, a social media marketing firm, compromising the personal information of more than 100,000 social media influencers and over 250,000 users.
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Miami-based Cano Health reported a two-year-long data breach affecting the personal details, including contact information, Social Security numbers, and financial information of around 29,000 patients.
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IndiaMART, an Indian B2B e-commerce site, suffered a data breach leaking the sensitive data of more than 40,000 suppliers which was put up for sale by hackers on dark web forums.
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In its new indictment, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia and conspired with members of hacking groups, including LulzSec and "Anonymous."
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Akamai mitigated a record-setting DDoS attack at 809 MPPS (million packets per second). Targeted at a large European bank, the attack involved the use of a large number of source IP addresses.
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The FBI released a new Private Industry Notification (PIN) for K12 schools against rising cyberattacks, especially ransomware attacks that have been abusing remote access connections to break into school systems.
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Microsoft released Safe Documents, a new security feature for Office 365 that lets users view documents from unknown sources in Protected View and check for threats that could infect their entire organization’s network.
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Sony announced the launch of a public PlayStation bug bounty program with over $50,000 in rewards for security researchers reporting critical vulnerabilities in PlayStation 4 devices and PlayStation Network domains.
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Siemens declared to acquire Cambridge-based UltraSoC Technologies, a provider of instrumentation and analytics solutions to add cybersecurity capabilities into the core hardware of system-on-chip (SoC).
