Day: January 9, 2025

Over 360K impacted by Medusind breach

Information compromised in the breach included not only names, birthdates, email addresses, and phone numbers, but also Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, taxpayer IDs, payment details, and health and health insurance and billing data, according to a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General. Source link

Unsecured Amazon S3 bucket exposes WebWork data

Time tracking application WebWork — which is being used by more than 15,000 organizations around the world, including major remote hiring firm Deel — had more than 13 million logs and screenshots exposed by a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 storage bucket, Cybernews reports. More files are being continuously added to the bucket, which has remained unprotected since its […]

Active exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day ongoing

While the security flaw — which could be abused to facilitate arbitrary code execution — also impacts Ivanti Policy Secure versions older than 22.7R1.2 and Ivanti Neurons for ZTA Gateways older than 22.7R2.3, such devices have not been subjected to attacks, according to Ivanti. Source link

Nexfibre’s network passes 2m premises

News The operator claims the move makes it “the UK’s second largest alternative network” Today, fibre network wholesaler nexfibre has announced it has passed 2 million premises with its fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network. The milestone, the company says, makes it the second largest alternative fibre network in the UK – although this will depend on whether […]

Telstra International Appoints New Global Head of Wholesale

Based in Singapore, Sarah’s extensive expertise in international digital infrastructure will continue Telstra International’s leadership in the Wholesale market. With 25 years’ industry experience, Sarah previously served as Chief Revenue Officer for Neos Networks, a UK infrastructure business managing both Enterprise and Wholesale and held the position of Business Development Director for Telefonica Global Solutions, […]

Advanced evasion techniques leveraged by novel NonEuclid RAT

Windows systems have been covertly hijacked by the newly emergent NonEuclid remote access trojan, which features antivirus evasion, anti-detection, privilege escalation, and ransomware encryption capabilities, reports The Hacker News. After performing client app initialization, NonEuclidRAT — which has been proliferating in the dark web since late November — conducts detection bypass checks and establishes a TCP socket […]

Thousands of deserted backdoors disrupted

BleepingComputer reports that more than 4,000 live web backdoors neglected by threat actors have been identified, taken over, and eventually dismantled following the registration of expired domains. Included in the discovered web shells were China Chopper — which is a fixture among advanced persistent threat operations — c99shell, and r57shell, as well as a backdoor that integrated Lazarus […]

BT Group places UK’s largest ever Electric Vehicle order 

News  The new EVs are part of a broader investment in 6,000 new vehicles, over half of which will be electric  BT has announced the largest-ever commercial electric vehicle (EV) order in the UK, as the company continues its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. The order includes 3,500 new EVs, which will contribute to […]

Telstra and Starlink to test direct-to-cell capabilities in Australia  

News  The deal is the latest in a string of deals for Starlink  Telstra has announced a new partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink to introduce Satellite-to-Mobile text messaging in Australia.   The service, the partner say, will help to address the gaps in mobile coverage, especially in remote areas where terrestrial network infrastructure is limited.  “The collaboration […]

Digital identity verification will have a breakout year in 2025

COMMENTARY: Identity fraud experts have sounded the alarm on the need for accurate and secure digital identity verification for years. From massive data attacks to emerging technologies accelerating fraud, this past year proved that our systems are vulnerable, the status quo is unsustainable, and the government must take action.   Will U.S. digital identity finally get […]