The lack of care being taken in rightly configuring cloud environments is once again in the spotlight. A popular Christian faith app exposed millions of people to fraud and online attacks as it left open cloud storage buckets to cyber adversaries. Russian hacker group REvil alleged that it stole terabytes of data from the networks of televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s systems. With this, read further to know interesting insights from the cybersecurity space for the day.
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Up to 10 million users were affected after Santa Monica-headquartered Pray.com inadvertently exposed their personal data via four misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets.
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The Russian REvil actors claimed a cyberattack on televangelist Kenneth Copeland Ministries and threatened to release 1.2 TB of stolen sensitive data if their ransom demand is not met.
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp. suffered a cyberattack potentially impacting highly confidential information connected to the defense sector, railways, and electric power supply.
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As we approach the tax season, security experts warn that Mount Locker ransomware actors are prepping their attacks by specifically targeting the TurboTax tax software.
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According to a CrowdStrike survey, 56% of organizations surveyed have suffered a ransomware attack in the last year and 27% of victims paid the ransom.
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Academics from the University of Maryland and the National University of Singapore found that a smart vacuum cleaner can be manipulated into behaving like a recording microphone.
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The U.K’s HMRC declared a 73% rise in email phishing attacks since the U.K first went into lockdown in March with 367,520 reports of email phishing.
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E-commerce fraud prevention firm Forter Ltd. raised $125 million in Series E round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Felix Capital, and Itai Tsiddon with participation from others.
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FireEye will receive a $400 million strategic investment from private equity firm Blackstone and venture capital firm ClearSky.
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Artmotion acquired 58% shares in Citadelo, an European cybersecurity firm, to set off its journey into the ethical hacking space.
