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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

Security Affairs

User Table Schema | Source: Cybernews As a huge number of emails were leaked, platform users could potentially experience a surge in spam and phishing emails. The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations.

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Balikbayan Foxes group spoofs Philippine gov to spread RATs

Security Affairs

The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. The threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks using spoofed email addresses. Victims of the group are located in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. . ” concludes the report.

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Hackers target German Task Force for COVID-19 PPE procurement

Security Affairs

Researchers from the IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) reported that attackers launched a COVID-19-themed spear-phishing campaign to steal the user credentials of over 100 senior executives. The phishing messages originating from a Russia-based IP address 178[.]159[.]36[.]183, Pierluigi Paganini.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

Ransomware. Hackers send offensive, sexual messages to Chicago suburban school districts (unknown) ‘Beyond troubling’ emails sent from hacked teacher’s account (1) South African firm Absa accuses employee of leaking customer data (unknown). In other news….

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

IT Governance

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is the fewest we’ve recorded since May 2018. Cyber attacks. Hitachi Chemical Co. Cyber attacks. Data breaches.

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US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage

Security Affairs

In July 2018, FireEye observed a series of new attacks of the group leveraging spear-phishing emails using weaponized Word documents that attempt to deliver the UPPERCUT backdoor, also tracked as ANEL. ” Experts noticed the group since around mid-2016 when it was using PlugX, ChChes, Quasar and RedLeaves malware in targeted attacks.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

McDonald’s is building AI solutions for customer care with IBM Watson AI technology and NLP to accelerate the development of its automated order taking (AOT) technology. Not only will this help scale the AOT tech across markets, but it will also help tackle integrations including additional languages, dialects and menu variations.