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By Owais Sultan Phishing scams are sneaky and often difficult to detect. These types of cyber attacks involve cybercriminals sending emails,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Types of Phishing Attacks and How to Dodge All of Them

Uber on Monday disclosed more details related to the security incident that happened last week, pinning the attack on a threat actor it believes is affiliated to the notorious LAPSUS$ hacking group. "This group typically uses similar techniques to target technology companies, and in 2022 alone has breached Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, NVIDIA, and Okta, among others," the San Francisco-based

The ride-sharing giant says a member of the notorious Lapsus$ hacking group started the attack by compromising an external contractor's credentials, as researchers parse the incident for takeaways.

Uber, in an update, said there is "no evidence" that users' private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems that was discovered late Thursday. "We have no evidence that the incident involved access to sensitive user data (like trip history)," the company said. "All of our services including Uber, Uber Eats, Uber Freight, and the Uber Driver app are operational."

By Waqas Unconfirmed reports claim an 18-year-old kid is behind the massive Uber hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Uber Hack – Ride-hailing Giant Investigating Large-Scale Data Breach

Ride hailing giant Uber disclosed Thursday it's responding to a cybersecurity incident involving a breach of its network and that it's in touch with law enforcement authorities. The New York Times first reported the incident. The hack is said to have forced the company to take its internal communications and engineering systems offline as it investigated the extent of the breach.

A stunning three-quarters of companies are looking to consolidate their security products this year, up from 29% in 2020, suggesting fiercer competition among cybersecurity vendors.

Categories: Awareness Categories: News Users of Seesaw, a student learning platform for parents and teachers, found their accounts sending out an explicit photo to other users. (Read more...) The post School app Seesaw compromised to send shock NSFW image appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  Public schools in the United States already rely on our teachers for so much — they have to be educators, occasional parental figures, nurses, safety officers, law enforcement and much more. Slowly, they’re having to add “IT admin” to their list of roles.  Educational institutions have increasingly become a target for ransomware attacks, an issue already highlighted this year by a major cyber attack on the combined Los Angeles school district in California that schools are still recovering from.  Teachers there reported that during the week of the attack, they couldn’t enter attendance, lost lesson plans and presentations, and had to scrap homework plans. Technology has become ever-present in classrooms, so any minimal disruption in a school’s network or software can throw pretty much everything off.  The last thing teachers need to worry about now is defending against a well-funded threat act...

An ongoing espionage campaign operated by the Russia-linked Gamaredon group is targeting employees of Ukrainian government, defense, and law enforcement agencies with a piece of custom-made information stealing malware. "The adversary is using phishing documents containing lures related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine," Cisco Talos researchers Asheer Malhotra and Guilherme Venere said in a