ISBuzz Team

Australian university, Deakin, has suffered a data breach affecting nearly 47,000 current and past students, following a smishing attempt after a member of staff’s username and password was hacked.

Not sure you’re a huge gamer, but Bandai Namco, publisher of Dark Souls, Elden Ring and Soulcalibur, has confirmed it was the target of a ransomware attack by cybergang, Black Cat. This will cripple not only the business, but all of its loyal gamers, putting their own data at risk.

According to a recent post from Microsoft, a large-scale phishing campaign that used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites stole passwords, hijacked a user’s sign-in session, and skipped the authentication process even if the user had enabled multifactor authentication (MFA). The attackers then used the stolen credentials and session cookies to access affected users’ mailboxes and perform follow-on business email compromise (BEC) campaigns against other targets. Based on our threat data, the AiTM phishing campaign attempted to target more than 10,000 organizations since September 2021.

The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) health system suffering a data breach. Information security experts reacted below on what went wrong and how to protect against such breaches.

Global video game publisher Bandai Namco – known for games including Pac-Man and Elden Ring – has reportedly been hit by a ransomware attack according to the cyber security site VX-underground, which showed a screen grab suggesting stolen data from the company is incoming from Ransomware-as-a-Service group ALPHV. ALPHV is a rapidly growing ransomware group notorious for pressurizing its victims – charging up $2.5M for ransoms, and carrying out ‘quadruple ransomware attacks’, hitting victims with encryption, data theft, denial of service (DoS) and harassment.

It’s extremely rare for hackers, who operate in the digital world, to cause damage in the physical world. But a cyber-attack on a steel maker in Iran two weeks ago is being seen as one of those significant and troubling moments. A hacking group called Predatory Sparrow said it was behind the attack, which it said caused a serious fire, and released a video to back up its story. The video appears to be CCTV footage of the incident, showing factory workers leaving part of the plant before a machine starts spewing molten steel and fire. 

NordVPN recently released research that found despite the crash of crypto currencies of late, scams and fraud has soared.