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Customer data is safe, the company says. But an Okta official says it would have handled some things differently.
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The financially motivated group of malicious hackers posted screenshots that Okta said could be related to “activity” detected in January.
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Cybercrime organization Lapsus$ posted suspicious screenshots. Microsoft officials said they are “aware of the claims and are investigating.”
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Denial-of-Service (DoS) amplification. Relatively early in the history of the Internet — it was only 14 years old at the time — the first DoS amplification attack was discovered. [TFreak] …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: DDoS Techniques, Dirty Pipe, and Lapsus$ Continued
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Hackers stole employee user logins and proprietary company data from Nvidia last week, the U.S. chip maker said Tuesday, but added that it has not seen evidence of a ransomware attack. A ransomware group known as Lapsus$ claims to be leaking Nvidia data. “We have no evidence of ransomware being deployed on the NVIDIA environment or that this is related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict,” a company spokesperson said. “We are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and some NVIDIA proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online.” The spokesperson did not answer questions about a Telegraph report that the incident partially shut down operations for two days. Nvidia says it has notified law enforcement about the Feb. 23 breach, contacted cyber incident response experts and bolstered its defenses. It was a tumultuous February for the company. On Feb. 7, with regulatory hurdles mounting, the company […]
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The websites of the top newspaper and TV station in Portugal remained down Tuesday after a cyberattack that began over the weekend, following in a string of recent attacks on media organizations. Impresa Group said its Expresso newspaper and SIC TV stations were the victim of a computer attack. A ransomware group suspected as the culprit, known as Lapsus$, initially defaced the websites with a ransom demand. The outfit also sent tweets from Expresso’s Twitter account to declare itself the president of Portugal, and sent text messages to the news organizations’ customers hyping its success in an apparent bid to pressure its victims into paying. “For safety reasons, we ask that you do not access or forward any of the various communications that are being sent on behalf of the Impresa group brands,” the company said in a Facebook post on Monday. “We continue to take necessary actions and measures […]
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