A Volkswagen software subsidiary called Cariad experienced a massive data leak that left 800,000 EV owners exposed, according to reporting by the German publication Spiegel Netzwelt. The leak allowed personal information to be left online for months, including movement data and contact information. This included precise location data for 460,000 vehicles made by VW, Seat Read more about Volkswagen data leak exposed the precise locations of 800,000 EV owners[…]

Hackers aligned with the Chinese government have infiltrated U.S. telecommunications infrastructure so deeply that it allowed the interception of unencrypted communications on a number of people, according to reports that first emerged in October. The operation, dubbed Salt Typhoon, apparently allowed hackers to listen to phone calls and nab text messages, and the penetration has Read more about Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe[…]

The tool, named “EagleMsgSpy,” was discovered by researchers at U.S. cybersecurity firm Lookout. The company said at the Black Hat Europe conference on Wednesday that it had acquired several variants of the spyware, which it says has been operational since “at least 2017.” Kristina Balaam, a senior intelligence researcher at Lookout, told TechCrunch the spyware Read more about Researchers uncover Chinese spyware used to target Android devices[…]

The Biden administration on Friday hosted telco execs to chat about China’s recent attacks on the sector, amid revelations that US networks may need mass rebuilds to recover. Details of the extent of China’s attacks came from senator Mark R Warner, who on Thursday gave both The Washington Post and The New York Times insights Read more about China complete pwn of US all telco means a physical rebuild is necessary[…]

A critical zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ firewall management interface that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code is now officially under active exploitation. According to the equipment maker, the vulnerability requires no user interaction or privileges to exploit, and its attack complexity is deemed “low.” There’s no CVE number assigned to Read more about Mystery Palo Alto Networks 0-day RCE now actively exploited – shut off access to Management Interface NOW[…]

What’s claimed to be more than 183 million records of people’s contact details and employment info has been stolen or otherwise obtained from a data broker and put up for sale by a miscreant. The underworld merchant, using the handle KryptonZambie, has put a $6,000 price tag on the information in a cybercrime forum posting. Read more about Data broker gathers records on 100M+ people, gets stolen, put up for sale[…]

In October, video game giant Activision said it had fixed a bug in its anti-cheat system that affected “a small number of legitimate player accounts,” who were getting banned because of the bug. In reality, according to the hacker who found the bug and was exploiting it, they were able to ban “thousands upon thousands” Read more about Hacker bans thousands of Call of Duty gamers through anti-cheat software, shows how dangerous this poorly written kernel acces junk is.[…]

U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers’ personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month. The company said in a statement Monday that an unauthorized third party “accessed and acquired” customer data during the cyberattack on September 20. The cyberattack — the nature of which remains unknown — Read more about MoneyGram says hackers stole customers’ personal information and transaction data[…]

[…] A pro-Palestenian hacktivist group called SN_BLACKMETA has taken responsibility for the hack on X and Telegram. “They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of ‘Israel,’” the group said Read more about Pro-Palistian Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive, piss off pro Palestinians globally[…]

[…] Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they’d found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the Internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the Read more about Flaw in Kia’s web portal let researchers track, hack cars. Again.[…]

Cybersecurity giant Fortinet has confirmed it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to steal 440GB of files from the company’s Microsoft Sharepoint server. Fortinet is one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world, selling secure networking products like firewalls, routers, and VPN devices. The company also offers SIEM, network management, and Read more about Fortinet confirms data breach after hacker claims to steal 440GB of files[…]

[…] Today, a group of six computer scientists are revealing a new attack against Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset where exposed eye-tracking data allowed them to decipher what people entered on the device’s virtual keyboard. The attack, dubbed GAZEploit and shared exclusively with WIRED, allowed the researchers to successfully reconstruct passwords, PINs, and messages Read more about Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type[…]

Around 1.7 million people will receive a letter from Florida-based Slim CD, if they haven’t already, after the company detected an intrusion dating back nearly a year. Slim CD provides payment processing solutions, thus credit card numbers along with their expiry dates are among the data types potentially compromised in the incident. The cardholder’s name Read more about 1.7M potentially pwned in US payment services provider breach, wishes victims good luck[…]

Avis Rent A Car System has alerted 299,006 customers across multiple US states that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach. The digital break-in occurred between August 3 and August 6, according to the car rental giant in filings with the Maine and California attorneys general. On August 14, Avis determined that Read more about Avis alerts 300k US car renters that insider crooks stole their info[…]

The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token for two-factor authentication based on the FIDO standard, contains a cryptographic flaw that makes the finger-size device vulnerable to cloning when an attacker gains temporary physical access to it, researchers said Tuesday. The cryptographic flaw, known as a side channel, resides in a small microcontroller used Read more about YubiKeys are vulnerable to unpatchable cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered physical side channel[…]

A Florida firm has all but confirmed that millions of people’s sensitive personal info was stolen from it by cybercriminals and publicly leaked. That information, totaling billions of records, includes the names, Social Security numbers, physical and email addresses, and phone numbers of folks in the United States, UK, and Canada. It’s the sort of Read more about Florida data broker NPD says it was ransacked by cyber-thieves[…]

[…] New research suggests that certain brands of bike parts have vulnerabilities that could allow them to be remotely compromised during competitions. The research was unveiled this week at the Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies by researchers from Northeastern University and UC San Diego. In their paper, researchers note that, much like modern cars, today’s Read more about Bicycles Can Be Hacked Easily Now[…]