Russia had its prosecutor general's website claimed to be compromised by Russian-speaking hacktivist operation RGB-TEAM, which admitted stealing a trove of data, including an archive with 100,000 Russian criminal records between 1993 and 2022 that has been leaked on Telegram, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
More than 4.4 million SurveyLama users had their data compromised following a breach impacting the French-owned survey rewards platform in February, SecurityWeek reports.
China, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have been subjected to attacks by suspected Vietnamese threat operation CoralRaider, which involved the delivery of the QuasarRAT variant dubbed RotBot and the XClient information-stealing malware, since May, reports The Hacker News.
Organizations in the oil and gas industry have been targeted with a phishing campaign that involved the deployment of a new Rhadamanthys information-stealing malware variant, The Hacker News reports.
Twenty-one of S&P companies have been subjected to data breaches in 2023, indicating the firms' attractiveness as cyberattack targets due to the lucrative business they bring to threat actors, reports SiliconAngle.
AT&T has been hit with a deluge of class-action lawsuits after confirming following a series of denials the legitimacy of data belonging to 73 million customers, including 7.6 million current account holders, which was initially published by ShinyHunters in 2021 before being exposed again by MajorNelson last month, BleepingComputer reports.
U.S. cancer-focused clinical research organization and cancer hospital operator City of Hope had data from 827,149 patients potentially compromised following a cyberattack against some of its systems between September and October, according to The Register.
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