A surveillance tool meant to keep tabs on employees is leaking millions of real-time screenshots onto the open web.
Your boss watching your screen isn't the end of the story. Everyone else might be watching, too. Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a major privacy breach involving WorkComposer, a workplace surveillance app used by over 200,000 people across countless companies.
The app, designed to track productivity by logging activity and snapping regular screenshots of employees’ screens, left over 21 million images exposed in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, broadcasting how workers go about their day frame by frame.
The notorious BreachForums online hacker marketplace appears to have been seized yet again. This time, it has been claimed by fellow hacktivst gang the Dark Storm Team – the same group believed responsible for last month’s massive outage of Elon Musk’s X.
It all coincides with rumors swirling on social media Tuesday about the arrest of “IntelBroker,” one of BreachForums’ major players.
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist group posted about the Breached takeover on its Dark Storm Team telegram channel early Tuesday morning (ET), claiming to have carried out the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack “for fun.”
American business service behemoth Conduent has confirmed the January data breach resulted in hackers stealing customer details, although there’s no evidence that the info was leaked online.
The attack hit the company in mid-January this year, Conduent confirmed on a FORM-8K filing with the SEC. Attackers penetrated digital defenses and accessed a “limited portion” of Conduent’s environment.
Several of Conduent’s clients experienced disruption in the initial days of the attack. For example, Wisconsin’s Department of Children and Families said the outage impacted payees who receive their payments via an electronic transfer system.
Hacker forums Cracked[.]io, Nulled[.]to, MySellIX[.]io, and StarkRDP[.]io on Wednesday are seized by the FBI, Europol, and international law enforcement as part of ‘Operation Talent.’
A large ‘‘Operation Talent’ seizure poster was splashed across most of the shady websites by Wednesday afternoon.
National Public Data, a company responsible for a massive leak of Social Security numbers in the summer, has filed for bankruptcy. That's unsurprising.
The mysterious Quad7 botnet has evolved its tactics to compromise several brands of Wi-Fi routers and VPN appliances. It’s armed with new backdoors, multiple vulnerabilities, some of which were previously unknown, and new staging servers and clusters, according to a report by Sekoia, a cybersecurity firm.
Attackers roamed the systems of Avis Car Rental, a major car rental service provider, for several days, accessing data of nearly 300,000 individuals.
Malicious actors breached Avis systems on August 3rd and roamed inside the system for three days until the company secured its networks.
The company’s data breach notification letter, submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, states that Avis discovered the breach on August 5th, indicating it took at least one day to kick the malicious actors out.
The US government is suing TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance over “widespread” privacy violations that it illegally collects data on kids 13 and under.
The largest password compilation with nearly ten billion unique passwords was leaked on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews research team believes the leak poses severe dangers to users prone to reusing passwords.
The king is dead. Long live the king. Cybernews researchers discovered what appears to be the largest password compilation with a staggering 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. The file with the data, titled rockyou2024.txt, was posted on July 4th by forum user ObamaCare.
Personal information, including partial payment details, may have been obtained by bad actors during an automated credential-stuffing attack on Levi’s online store.
The maker of the famous Levi’s denim jeans reported that over 72,000 accounts were affected during a “security incident” that was detected on July 13th.
Cybercriminals behind attacks disrupting at least five London hospitals leaked nearly 400 gigabytes of data, which reportedly included blood test information.
Qilin ransomware started leaking data stolen from England National Health Service (NHS) partner Synnovis labs. According to reports from the BBC, the data includes patient names, dates of birth, NHS numbers, descriptions of blood tests, and other information.
Cooler Master, a popular computer hardware maker, has allegedly suffered from a data breach, exposing the company’s corporate data as well as the personal details of members from its fan-based members program.
The attackers claim to have stolen 103GB of data from the company’s servers on May 18th. According to the attacks’ perpetrators, the allegedly stolen information carries a trove of sensitive data, including Cooler Master’s Fanzone members’ payment card details.
The Real World, a learning platform from the controversial social media personality Andrew Tate, has leaked nearly a million users and over 22 million messages.
Hundreds of thousands of exposed users, millions of messages, and session tokens – that’s the reality that The Real World finds itself in.
The Cybernews research team has uncovered an exposed MongoDB instance with 88GB from one of The Real World’s servers.
The LockBit cybercriminal outfit appears to be planning a ransomware rebrand as the DarkVault, discovered after LockBit seemingly bungled the new website’s design.
The leaked documents supposedly discuss spyware developed by I-Soon, a Chinese infosec company, that’s targeting social media platforms, telecommunications companies, and other organizations worldwide. Researchers suspect the operations are orchestrated by the Chinese government.
Unknown individuals allegedly leaked a trove of Chinese government documents on GitHub. The documents reveal how China conducts offensive cyber operations with spyware developed by I-Soon, Taiwanese threat intelligence researcher Azaka Sekai claims.
A new strain of ransomware called MadCat has been linked by security researchers to suspected scammers who pretend to sell passport details on the dark web so they can rip off their fellow crooks.
The Boeing Company, a jetliner manufacturer and US defense contractor, had the company’s data leaked by the LockBit ransomware gang. So far, around 50 gigabytes of compressed data was uploaded LockBit's dark web blog.
LockBit has allegedly started leaking data that the gang stole from Boeing in late October. The Cybernews research team noted there's around of 50 GB of supposedly Boeing's data. Bulk of the data appears to be various backups.
CCleaner, a popular software for cleaning files and Windows Registry entries, has confirmed that attackers accessed some of its customer data.
Someone is allegedly selling up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. A data sample investigated by Cybernews likely confirms this to be true.
