Internet Archive's latest breach was noted by the threat actor to have stemmed from the digital library nonprofit's failure to rotate its authentication tokens.
Information compromised as a result of the incident included individuals' names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and health-related details, among others although a probe into the total extent of stolen data continues, said Globe Life in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Investigation into the incident launched along with third-party cybersecurity experts after the discovery and takedown of systems impacted by atypical activity revealed the exfiltration of a subset of files.
Threat actors leveraged the flaw to target a toast advertisement program with an unsupported Internet Explorer module, which when installed would trigger a type confusion error and several malicious action.
Iranian hackers have launched password spraying, multi-factor authentication push bombing, and other brute-force attack methods to infiltrate healthcare and public health, information technology, energy, engineering, and government organizations' networks.