It’s not been a great couple of months for gaming giant Bandai Namco. The name behind smash hit titles like Elden Ring and Dark Souls has endured a long run of cheats and hacks. Hacking concerns led to Remote Code Execution issues, and multiplayer features in Souls titles were disabled for months. In March, in-game cheats in Elden Ring meant players

Game publishing giant Bandai Namco has confirmed that they suffered a cyberattack that may have resulted in the theft of customers' personal data.Bandai Namco is a Japanese publisher of numerous popular video games, including Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Pac-Man, Tekken, Gundam, Soulcalibur, and many more.This past Monday, the BlackCat ransomware operation (aka A

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Microsoft announced today the general availability of tenant-wide idle session timeout for Microsoft 365 web apps to protect confidential data on shared or non-company devices left unattended.When toggled on, it prevents data leaks by ensuring that sensitive information will no longer be exposed to unauthorized access after employees forget to log out of unm

The Conti ransomware operation has finally shut down its last public-facing infrastructure, consisting of two Tor servers used to leak data and negotiate with victims, closing the final chapter of the notorious cybercrime brand.According to threat intel analyst Ido Cohen, Conti’s servers were shut down on Wednesday and BleepingComputer h

The Vice Society group has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack that hit the Italian city of Palermo forcing the IT admins to shut down its infrastructure. The Vice Society ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the recent cyber attack that hit the city of Palermo in the South of Italy. In response to the security breach, the IT infra

Several U.S. federal agencies warned organizations today against paying ransom demands made by the Karakurt gang since that will not prevent their stolen data from being sold to others.Karakurt, the data extortion arm of the Conti ransomware gang and cybercrime syndicate, is focused on stealing data from companies since at least June 2021 and

The freight logs of two major Chinese shipping ports have been leaking data, a problem which if left unresolved could disrupt the supply chain of up to 70,000 tonnes of cargo a day, with potentially serious consequences for international shipping. The cybernews® research team identified an open ElasticSearch database, which contained more than 243GB of da

Vodafone is investigating a recently suffered cyberattack, after a ransomware gang Lapsus$ claimed to have stolen its source code. Vodafone announced to have launched an investigation after the Lapsus$ cybercrime group claimed to have stolen its source code. The Lapsus$ gang claims to have stolen approximately 200 GB of source code files, allegedly con

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Adafruit has disclosed a data leak that occurred due to a publicly-viewable GitHub repository.The company suspects this could have allowed "unauthorized access" to information about certain users on or before 2019.Based in New York City, Adafruit is a producer of open-source hardware components since 2005. The company designs, manufactures, and sel

Anonymous and its affiliates continue to target Russia and Belarus, it is also targeting the Russian disinformation machine. Anonymous announced to have hacked more than 2,500 websites linked to the Russian and Belarusian governments, state-owned media outlets spreading disinformation, Russian private organizations, banks, hospitals, airports. The attacks

Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following revelations that the data had been exposed since 2011 — two ye

There was a significant increase in ransomware-related data leaks and interactive intrusions in 2021, according to the 2022 Global Threat Report released on Tuesday by endpoint security firm CrowdStrike.The number of ransomware attacks that led to data leaks increased from 1,474 in 2020 to 2,686 in 2021, which represents an 82% increase. The sectors most imp

A ransomware group has taken credit for the recent attack targeting aviation services company Swissport, and the cybercriminals claim to have stolen more than one terabyte of data.Swissport discovered the breach on February 3 and disclosed the incident one day later. The company at the time could not share any information on the type of ransomware used in th