yaracroft @venom@nanao.cybtex.fr

Three-quarters (75%) of these and other #covid19 related fraud issues have yet to be resolved. The impact has been catastrophic for many households: a quarter (24%) said they were denied unemployment benefits because someone applied using their identity ( #idtheft ); 40% were unable to pay routine monthly bills ; and many went hungry. While most victims lose less than $500, a fifth (21%) claimed to have been defrauded by over $20,000.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-pandemic-made-life-even-worse-for-identity-theft-victims

In light of the GDPR's third anniversary this week, the data security firm crunched statistics on thousands of breaches over the past few years to better understand the evolving risk to businesses. There were more records reported as compromised in January 2021 alone (878 million) than for the whole of 2017 (826 million). Imperva is predicting that this year will see around 1500 data breach incidents and 40 billion records compromised.

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple's new Mac chip. Apple's brand new Mac has a security hole, right inside the processor itself! The official name for the bug is CVE-2021-30747, but the developer who discovered it prefers to call it M1RACLES.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/05/27/unpatchable-vuln-in-apples-new-mac-chip-what-you-need-to-know/

Recent suspicious activity was directed at the Guard.me website and in an abundance of caution we immediately took down the site. International Insurance is among the world's largest #health and #travel #insurance providers in international #education, protecting over 100,000 individuals studying and working abroad, including full- and part-time #students, faculty members, and participants in exchange, co-op and internship programs.

Data of 18 Crore orders of Domino's India have become public. Hacker created a search engine on Dark Web. Anybody can easily search any mobile number and can check a person's past locations with date and time. Data include Name, Email, Mobile, GPS Location etc. 13TB employee files and customer details - Search your phone number or mailid.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/worried-your-data-is-part-of-the-dominos-breach-heres-how-you-can-find-out-6930011.html

Nearly 200,000 Highly Sensitive Medical Records Of U.S Military Veterans Have Been Leaked On The #Internet

https://securethoughts.com/us-military-veterans-medical-data-leakage/

A gang of Nigerian cyber-criminals has shared a step-by-step guide detailing how to commit unemployment identity fraud in the Lone Star State. Organized cybercrime group Scattered Canary is already suspected of making millions defrauding the states of Hawaii, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Washington and Wyoming. Now the gang has allegedly circulated a 13-page tutorial explaining how to successfully defraud the Texas Workforce Commission website.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/05/24/nigerian-cybercriminal-gang-texas-unemployment-system/

GCHQ's mass data-sharing violated right to privacy, court rules - Methods for bulk interception of online communications violated the right to privacy and the regime for collection of data was « not in accordance with the law », the grand chamber of the European court of human rights has ruled. #UK

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/25/gchqs-mass-data-sharing-violated-right-to-privacy-court-rules

#UK police stations - In 2020 alone, there were 2386 data breaches recorded by 22 police stations.

https://vpnoverview.com/news/data-breaches-uk-police-stations/

#Marketo Hackers have posted a set of 42 GB of data allegedly belonging to CEFCO, a gas and convenience store chain operating 220 stores across six states in the United States

https://www.technadu.com/data-stolen-cefco-gas-station-chain-appear-marketo-leaks/278600/

An artificial intelligence (AI) defence centre called The Foundry has been unveiled, as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says the #UK urgently needs so-called « cyber warriors » just as much as fighter pilots. The Foundry, for which a location has yet to be determined, will act as the hub for a new breed of #cyber warriors. The last few months cyberspace has been a « vector for #espionage » and a « conduit for #disinformation ».

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/26/foundry-unveiled-hub-britains-ai-cyber-warriors/

Foreign hackers compromised Russian federal agencies in a digital #espionage campaign that Russian officials described as unprecedented in scope and sophistication. The announcement came as the Kremlin is increasingly coming under scrutiny in the United States and elsewhere – not just over the SolarWinds hack, which Moscow denies carrying out - but also over allegations that #Russia knowingly harbours ransom-seeking cybercriminals.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/russias-fsb-reports-unprecedented-hacking-campaign-aimed-government-agencies-2021-05-26

vpnMentor's research team discovered a data breach by French consulting firm Bluenove that indirectly exposed thousands of employees and customers from sporting goods giant Decathlon #GDPR

https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-decathlon-bluenove-leak/