VirusTotal Data Leak Exposes Some Registered Customers' Details

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 2:12:00
0 minutes, 35 seconds
Dan

Data associated with a subset of registered customers of VirusTotal, including their names and email addresses, were exposed after an employee inadvertently uploaded the information to the malware scanning platform.

The security incident, which comprises a database of 5,600 names in a 313KB file,...

LastPass Hack: Engineer's Failure to Update Plex Software Led to Massive Data Breach

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:37:00
1 minute, 4 seconds
Dan

The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in what's a sobering reminder of the dangers of failing to keep software up-to-date.

The embattled password management service last week revealed how unidentified actors leveraged i...

LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:48:00
0 minutes, 43 seconds
Dan

LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it happened as a result of the same adversary launching a second attack on its systems.

The company said one of its DevOps engineers had their personal home computer...

GoDaddy Discloses Multi-Year Security Breach Causing Malware Installations and Source Code Theft

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:37:00
0 minutes, 38 seconds
Dan

Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services.

The company attributed the campaign to a "sophisticated and organized group targeting hosting service...

Mailchimp says it was hacked — again

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:38:00
1 minute, 1 second
Dan

Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers’ data was exposed. It’s the second time the company was hacked in the past six months. Worse, this breach appears to be almost identical to a previous incident.

The Intuit-owned company said in an unattr...