Kirsten Doyle

Cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews have uncovered two misconfigured Azure Blob Storage containers containing more than 1.6 million files, primarily shipping email confirmations. The vast majority of the leaked data appears to belong to American customers, though some affected individuals are located in Canada and Australia. The emails were linked to purchases from Etsy, TikTok shops, Poshmark, and a vendor called Embroly. Most exposed files were HTML versions of shipping confirmations, containing sensitive customer information such as full names, home addresses, email addresses, and shipping order details. While it’s unclear who owns the storage buckets, metadata suggests the orders originated from…

On 21 May, a major international law enforcement coalition, including Europol, the FBI, and Microsoft, announced a coordinated operation targeting the notorious Lumma infostealer, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for widespread credential theft. The operation, which began on 15 May, confiscated a whopping 2,500 domains associated with Lumma and wiped its main server and backups through a vulnerability in Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). Lumma, one of the most prolific infostealers, has been leveraged by both common cybercrooks and elite threat groups such as Scattered Spider, Angry Likho, and CoralRaider. The takedown’s immediate impact was evident as Lumma customers flooded…

Recent data breaches at luxury brands under LVMH, the world’s largest luxury conglomerate, have raised concerns over the group’s data security practices, particularly among consumers. The most recent incident involved Tiffany & Company, which revealed on 9 May that personal data from its Korea-based customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and sales information, had been compromised. The breach happened on 8 April but wasn’t identified until a month later. The company has said no financial information, such as payment card details, was involved, but its response was limited to notifying affected individuals via email. Similar concerns have been…

A newly uncovered flaw in Microsoft’s OneDrive File Picker could be putting millions of users at risk of unintended data exposure, says new research from cybersecurity firm Oasis Security.   The issue allows websites to access an entire user’s OneDrive, rather than just the specific files selected for upload, due to a combination of excessive permissions and vague consent prompts. The flaw affects hundreds of popular applications that integrate with OneDrive File Picker, including widely used platforms like ChatGPT, Slack, Trello, and ClickUp. As a result, millions of users may have inadvertently granted these services full access to their cloud storage,…

A newly identified threat actor, Void Blizzard, is emerging as a major player in Russian-linked cyberespionage, according to a detailed report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence. Active since at least April 2024, Void Blizzard is now on the radar of global security agencies for its highly targeted campaigns against government, defense, healthcare, and media organizations, primarily in NATO member states and Ukraine. Backed by evidence and collaboration from the Netherlands’ General and Defence Intelligence and Security Services (AIVD and MIVD), as well as the FBI, the report describes Void Blizzard (also known as LAUNDRY BEAR) as a determined and opportunistic actor,…

A recent investigation by ReversingLabs (RL) has uncovered a new malicious attack method targeting machine learning (ML) models distributed via the Python Package Index (PyPI). This expands on earlier threats that abused the Pickle file format to distribute malware through ML models hosted on platforms like Hugging Face. Threat actors uploaded three malicious PyPI packages—aliyun-ai-labs-snippets-sdk, ai-labs-snippets-sdk, and aliyun-ai-labs-sdk—posing as Python SDKs for interacting with Alibaba AI Labs services. In reality, these packages had no legitimate functionality and were designed solely to exfiltrate reconnaissance information from infected systems. Once installed, the packages delivered an infostealer payload hidden inside a PyTorch model,…

Cellcom, a regional telecom provider that serves Michigan and Wisconsin has confirmed that a cyberattack was the cause of text and voice service outages that began last week. Calls between Cellcom customers and some SMS text services have since been restored, and the company confirmed that the incident was concentrated on a network where customer data is not held. As of yesterday, Cellcom could not say when services will be fully restored. The company’s CEO Brighid Riordan said in a brief video statement, that the company has been dealing with a cyber incident but “simply don’t have a lot of…

Sportswear giant Adidas has reported a data breach following a cyberattack on one of its customer service providers, which resulted in the theft of certain customer data.  “Adidas recently became aware that an unauthorized external party obtained certain consumer data through a third-party customer service provider. We immediately took steps to contain the incident and launched a comprehensive investigation, collaborating with leading information security experts,” the company said in a statement. The company said the affected data contains no passwords, credit card or any other payment-related information. “It mainly consists of contact information relating to consumers who had contacted our…

A fresh supply chain attack is quietly unfolding in the JavaScript ecosystem, and it’s already compromising developer environments and enterprise networks. Socket’s Threat Research Team has identified 60 malicious npm packages actively siphoning off sensitive host and network information during installation, leaving no trace except for a webhook ping to a Discord-controlled endpoint. A quiet, targeted recon campaign Unlike smash-and-grab malware that wreaks instant havoc, this campaign is surgical. Each package contains a post-install script that activates automatically during npm install. The script gathers internal and external IPs, hostnames, DNS server lists, and user directories, then exfiltrates everything to a…

A recent data breach involving TeleMessage, a messaging platform used by several U.S. government agencies, has exposed communications metadata from more than 60 federal officials. They include disaster response teams, diplomatic staff, and even a White House employee. Experts warn it could pose a significant counterintelligence risk.  First reported by Reuters, the breach first surfaced on the leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets (a U.S. nonprofit whose stated mission is to archive hacked and leaked documents in the public interest). It was initially linked to a communication used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz. But a deeper look…