In today’s bit of unsecured database mishap, a treasure trove of NYC’s special education students’ data was found exposed on the internet. In an unfortunate happenstance, the City of Oakland suffered another ransomware attack after the one in February. In other news, Facebook accounts are once again being targeted by the FakeGPT Chrome extension. Read along for more.
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A 6.74 GB database containing 47,200 documents pertaining to special education students in New York City’s public school system was exposed to the public internet.
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The City of Oakland suffered another ransomware attack on its systems. The LockBit RaaS gang threatened to leak the stolen files by April 10. However, it has published no samples as proof of the attack.
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WB Area CTC, Pennsylvania, disclosed a recent cyberattack on its systems, which could have possibly affected 3,000 current and former employees.
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The REF2924 threat cluster was observed dropping a previously-unseen malware, dubbed NAPLISTENER, on entities in Southeast and South Asia. The malware evades “network-based forms of detection.”
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An Indian news channel, News24, fell prey to a cryptocurrency scam wherein hackers took over its Twitter account to post fake Ripple events, such as XRP airdrop. The scam potentially amassed 1.4 million victims.
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Guardio Labs found a new version of the FakeGPT Chrome extension that is again targeting Facebook accounts, through malicious sponsored Google search results.
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Group-IB found over 2,400 scam pages that have been targeting Arabic-speaking job seekers across 13 countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria, from January 2022 to January 2023.
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The British government issued its new cybersecurity strategy for the NHS, with an aim to strengthen the healthcare sector against cyberattacks, by 2030.
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NCSC-U.K announced two new services—Cyber Action Plan and Check Your Cyber Security—to aid small businesses to fortify their cyber risk management.
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Seattle-based security access startup Oleria raised $8 million in seed funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Tapestry VC and other investors.
