All news in category “Incidents and Data Breaches”

🚨 Cloudflare reported that it mitigated a massive volumetric DDoS attack that peaked at 22.2 Tbps and 10.6 billion packets per second, lasting roughly 40 seconds. The traffic surge equated to streaming about one million 4K videos simultaneously and generated a packet rate roughly equal to 1.3 web page refreshes per person on Earth. Such extreme packet velocities strain firewalls, routers, and load balancers even where aggregate bandwidth may be handled. Cloudflare has provided limited technical detail on this and recent record attacks.

🚨 The U.S. Secret Service announced it dismantled a network of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and roughly 100,000 SIM cards across the New York tri-state area ahead of the United Nations General Assembly. The devices, concentrated within a 35-mile radius of the UN gathering, were used to issue anonymous threats to senior U.S. officials and could be weaponized to disrupt telecommunications or enable encrypted communications. The agency's Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit is leading the investigation and said early evidence shows cellular links between nation-state actors and individuals known to federal law enforcement.

🔒 CISA says attackers breached a U.S. federal agency after exploiting an unpatched GeoServer instance using the critical RCE flaw CVE-2024-36401. Threat actors uploaded web shells and access scripts, then moved laterally to compromise a web server and an SQL server. The intrusion remained undetected for three weeks until an EDR alert flagged suspected malware on July 31, 2024. CISA urges rapid patching of critical flaws and continuous EDR monitoring.

🔍 Check Point Research reports that Iranian-linked actor Nimbus Manticore has escalated cyber-espionage operations across Western Europe, with heightened targeting of organizations in Denmark, Sweden and Portugal. Attackers impersonate recruiters and use convincing fake career portals to deliver personalized credentials and malicious archives. The campaign leverages evolved backdoors—first seen as Minibike, now observed as MiniJunk and MiniBrowse—and employs multi-stage DLL sideloading into legitimate Windows binaries, including Microsoft Defender components, alongside valid code-signing certificates and compiler-level obfuscation to evade detection. Infrastructure hosted via Azure App Service and shielded by Cloudflare provides redundancy and rapid command-and-control recovery.

🚨 Five suspects were arrested in a cross-border crackdown on a cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that stole over €100 million from more than 100 victims. The operation, coordinated by Eurojust and supported by Europol, involved investigative teams from Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania and Romania and included searches and asset freezes. The scam, active since at least 2018, lured investors with promises of high returns and routed funds to bank accounts in Lithuania; victims were later asked to pay recovery fees before platforms went offline.

🚨 ShadowV2 is a new botnet campaign that converts misconfigured Docker containers on AWS into a DDoS-for-hire platform. Darktrace’s analysis shows attackers exploiting exposed Docker daemons via the Python Docker SDK, building containers on victims' hosts and deploying a Go-based RAT that polls operators and launches large HTTP floods. The operation is highly professionalized, offering APIs, dashboards, operator logins and modular attack options that make DDoS easily rentable.

🛡️ CISA released an alert about a widespread software supply chain compromise affecting the npm registry: a self-replicating worm called 'Shai-Hulud' has compromised over 500 packages. The actor harvested GitHub Personal Access Tokens and cloud API keys for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, exfiltrating them to a public repository and using them to publish malicious package updates. CISA recommends immediate dependency reviews, credential rotation, enforcing phishing-resistant MFA, pinning package versions to releases before Sept. 16, 2025, hardening GitHub settings, and monitoring for anomalous outbound connections.

⚠️ Researchers at Darktrace disclosed ShadowV2, a DDoS-focused botnet that exploits misconfigured Docker daemons on AWS EC2 instances to deploy a Go-based RAT and enlist hosts as attack nodes. The campaign uses a Python spreader to spawn an Ubuntu setup container, build a custom image, and run an ELF payload that checks in with a Codespaces-hosted C2. Operators leverage HTTP/2 Rapid Reset floods, a Cloudflare UAM bypass via ChromeDP, and a FastAPI/Pydantic operator API, signaling a modular DDoS-for-hire service.

🔒 A malicious npm package named fezbox was recently discovered using a QR code embedded in an image to retrieve a second-stage, cookie-stealing payload from the attacker's server. The package's minified code (notably in dist/fezbox.cjs) delays execution, avoids development environments, then decodes a reversed URL to fetch a dense JPG QR image containing obfuscated JavaScript. When the payload finds credentials in document.cookie it extracts username and password and exfiltrates them via an HTTPS POST; the package accrued at least 327 downloads before registry removal.

🔒 Stellantis has confirmed unauthorized access to a third‑party service provider platform that supports its North American customer service operations. The group said affected customer information was potentially exposed but limited to contact details and did not include stored financial or other sensitive data. Stellantis activated incident response protocols, notified authorities and began informing impacted customers while warning them to expect phishing attempts. Security researchers and outlets linked the incident to claims by ShinyHunters and a recent series of Salesforce-related data breaches.

🚗 Jaguar Land Rover has extended a production shutdown until Wednesday 1 October 2025 after a major cyber incident that halted its Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton plants. The company said teams are working with cybersecurity specialists, the NCSC and law enforcement while it investigates, and warned the outage has already cost an estimated £120m in profits and £1.7bn in revenue. Unions have called for government-backed support for suppliers facing bankruptcy amid cascading supply-chain risk.

🔍 Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking an SEO poisoning campaign dubbed Operation Rewrite that employs a native IIS implant called BadIIS. The module inspects User-Agent strings, identifies search engine crawlers, and fetches poisoned content from a remote C2 to inject keywords and links so compromised sites artificially rank for targeted queries. Unit 42 observed multiple tooling variants — lightweight ASP.NET handlers, a managed .NET IIS module, and an all‑in‑one PHP script — and reports a focus on East and Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam.

🛫 Over the weekend several major European airports experienced check-in and boarding disruptions after a ransomware attack on the external vendor Collins Aerospace. Attackers targeted the MUSE multi-airline check-in system, forcing manual processing of thousands of passengers and causing delays and cancellations to more than 100 flights. Airports affected included Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin Brandenburg, with only minor impact reported in Cork and Dublin. Authorities and the vendor are investigating while restoration efforts continue.

🔒 A vulnerability in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting allowed protected and private media to be downloaded for years by abusing an IDOR flaw. A simple Tampermonkey script could alter media ID parameters in background fetch/XHR calls and bypass access controls, returning content instead of a '403 Forbidden'. The issue was reported to AAPB, confirmed by a spokesperson, and patched within 48 hours, but the full scope of prior access remains unknown.

🔒 Stellantis confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party platform supporting its North American customer service operations, and said attackers stole customer contact information. The company stated the compromised system did not contain financial or other sensitive personal data and that it activated incident response procedures and notified authorities. Reports link the incident to a broader wave of Salesforce-related intrusions claimed by ShinyHunters, and customers are being urged to watch for phishing attempts.

🔐 Organizations should urgently update defenses to counter the Scattered Spider collective, experts warned at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2025. The group used social engineering, helpdesk vishing, and push notification fatigue to bypass MFA and abuse SSO, compromising accounts like Okta and stealing tokens from LastPass. Firms are advised to implement stronger identity protections, number-matching MFA, stricter password-reset procedures, and tighter third-party vendor monitoring to reduce exposure.

🔒 Security researchers at F6 disclosed a phishing campaign by a previously undocumented group dubbed ComicForm that has been active since at least April 2025, targeting organizations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia. The attackers use RR archives containing Windows executables masquerading as PDFs to deploy an obfuscated .NET loader and a chain of DLLs culminating in the FormBook stealer. The malware creates scheduled tasks and adds Microsoft Defender exclusions, while some phishing sites mimic domestic document services and capture credentials by posting them to attacker-controlled domains.

⚠️ LastPass warns of a macOS campaign that uses fraudulent GitHub repositories to impersonate popular apps and trick users into running Terminal commands. The fake installers deliver the Atomic (AMOS) info‑stealer via a ClickFix workflow: a curl command decodes a base64 URL and downloads an install.sh payload to /tmp. Attackers rely on SEO and many disposable accounts to evade takedowns and boost search rankings. Users should only install macOS software from official vendor sites and avoid pasting unknown commands into Terminal.

✈️ Collins Aerospace's MUSE check-in platform suffered a cyber-related outage late Friday, forcing airlines and major European airports to revert to manual processes including handwritten tickets, paper boarding passes, laptops and iPads. Brussels was hardest hit with dozens of cancellations; Heathrow and Brandenburg reported delays while operators isolated affected systems. Collins says the disruption is limited to electronic check-in and baggage drop and that manual operations are in place while it works to restore a secure version. Passengers were urged to check flight status and arrive earlier than usual.

🔐 SonicWall released an advisory after identifying unauthorized access to a subset of customer cloud backup preference files stored via the MySonicWall portal. SonicWall’s investigation indicates a threat actor used brute force methods against MySonicWall.com to retrieve preference files that, while containing encrypted credentials, included other device-specific data that could enable access to SonicWall firewall devices. CISA urges customers to log into their accounts to verify exposures and to follow the advisory’s containment and remediation steps immediately.