Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

CareCloud: Intruder Accessed Systems for 8 Hours, Still Assessing Extent of BreachElectronic health records vendor CareCloud has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a cyber incident earlier this month that temporarily disrupted the software and accessed one of its EHR environments. The company is assessing whether patient data was accessed or stolen.

Hackers Impersonate IT Support StaffA hacking collective linked to recent British retailer attacks is targeting cloud companies through or voice phishing scams for data theft from European hospitality, retail and education sectors. Hackers impersonate IT support staff.

Hackers Impersonate IT Support StaffA hacking collective linked to recent British retailer attacks is targeting cloud companies through or voice phishing scams for data theft from European hospitality, retail and education sectors. Hackers impersonate IT support staff.

Financially Strapped Cloud Services Firm Settles Suit From 2020 Patient Data HackA financially strapped cloud services vendor that experienced a 2020 ransomware attack affecting dozens of healthcare sector clients and hundreds of thousands of patients has agreed to a $1.9 million settlement in proposed class action litigation involving the data theft case.

Cloud-based streaming company StreamElements confirms it suffered a data breach at a third-party service provider after a threat actor leaked samples of stolen data on a hacking forum. [...]

Welcome to this week’s Cybersecurity News Recap. Discover how cyber attackers are using clever tricks like fake codes and sneaky emails to gain access to sensitive data. We cover everything from device code phishing to cloud exploits, breaking down the technical details into simple, easy-to-follow insights

Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey.

Hacking Suspect Tied to Theft of Data From AT&T, TicketMaster, Santander and OthersCanadian authorities arrested a suspected extortionist tied to the hacking theft of terabytes of data from clients of cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake. Charges against the suspect, Alexander Moucka, aka Connor Moucka, have yet to be publicly detailed.

This week was a total digital dumpster fire! Hackers were like, "Let's cause some chaos!" and went after everything from our browsers to those fancy cameras that zoom and spin. (You know, the ones they use in spy movies? 🕵️‍♀️) We're talking password-stealing bots, sneaky extensions that spy on you, and even cloud-hacking ninjas! 🥷 It's enough to make you want to chuck your phone in the ocean.

Mandiant Says APT42 Members Have Been Posing as Journalists to Steal Troves of DataMembers of the Iranian state hacking group APT42 have been observed posing as journalists from credible news outlets and well-known research institutions as part of a global effort to harvest credentials and hack into victim cloud networks, according to a Mandiant report published Wednesday.

If not correctly locked down, Jupyter Notebook offers a novel initial access vector that hackers can use to compromise enterprise cloud environments, as seen in a recent hacking incident.

An advanced hacking operation dubbed 'SCARLETEEL' targets public-facing web apps running in containers to infiltrate cloud services and steal sensitive data. [...]

Microsoft on Tuesday said it took steps to disable fake Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) accounts that were used for creating malicious OAuth applications as part of a malicious campaign designed to breach organizations' cloud environments and steal email

Last month Tech Crunch reported that payment terminal manufacturer Wiseasy had been hacked. Although Wiseasy might not be well known in North America, their Android-based payment terminals are widely used in the Asia Pacific region and hackers managed to steal passwords for 140,000 payment terminals

Heroku has now revealed that the stolen GitHub integration OAuth tokens from last month further led to the compromise of an internal customer database. The Salesforce-owned cloud platform acknowledged the same compromised token was used by attackers to exfiltrate customers' hashed and salted passwords from "a database." [...]