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Russian Hackers Used Microsoft Teams to Target Government Agencies

Microsoft has issued a security advisory about a new Russia-linked hacking group dubbed Midnight Blizzard. The threat actors used Microsoft Teams chat to launch social engineering campaigns (which started in late May) that affected dozens of organizations. According to the Microsoft threat intelligence team, the hackers (known as APT29) pretend to be technical support staff...

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LastPass Confirms Internal Source Code Compromised in Security Breach

LastPass has announced that its development environment was recently compromised in a security breach. The password manager maker detailed in a blog post that hackers had stolen their internal source code and technical documentation. LastPass is a popular password manager that allows users to store their credentials and personal information in an encrypted vault. It…

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Globant Confirms Lapsus$ Hackers Had Unauthorized Access to Customers’ Source Code

Earlier this week, the Lapsus$ hacking group claimed that it had stolen 70GB of data from Globant, a Luxembourg-based IT and software development firm. Globant confirmed yesterday that the hackers did manage to breach its network and access some of its corporate customers’ source code without authorization. “According to our current analysis, the information that…

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Okta Claims Only 2.5% Customers Were Impacted by Lapsus$ Group Hack

Okta, an enterprise identity and access management company, has published an extensive update about the recent cyberattack by the LapsuS$ hacking group. The company confirmed that around 2.5 percent of its customers were affected by this security incident. The investigations revealed that the threat actors managed to gain access to the laptop of a third-party…

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Lapsus$ Hackers Claim to Leak Source Code of Microsoft Azure, Cortana, and Bing

Last week, the infamous hacker group Lapsus$ claimed that it had breached several Azure DevOps source code repositories. Microsoft is currently investigating claims of this hack, but the source code of Bing, Bing Maps, Cortana, and other internal projects may have been leaked online (via VentureBeat). Over the weekend, the hacker group Lapsus$ posted a…

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The Anatomy of a Privilege Escalation Attack

Learn how an attacker can move laterally across a network to get access to a domain controller.

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Infographic: US Data Breaches in 2014

Take a look at an infographic from 27001 Academy that details security breaches at organizations in the United States.

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