Blog #Cybersecurity Trends

PowerSchool announced a data breach in December 2024, compromising personal information of students and educators. The breach, identified on December 28, affected only PowerSchool's Student Information System (SIS), accessed through its customer support portal, PowerSource.

CloudSEK researchers discovered a vulnerability in Zendesk's platform that allows cybercriminals to exploit subdomain registration for phishing and investment scams.

President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web marketplace Silk Road, calling his prosecution unfair and overly harsh.

On the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025, $382,750 was awarded for 16 zero-day vulnerabilities in car infotainment systems, EV chargers, and automotive operating systems.

The Specops 2025 Breached Password Report reveals that over 1 billion passwords were stolen by malware in the past year, exposing persistent weaknesses in password security practices.

A security researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered an unprotected database containing over 240,000 records belonging to Willow Pays, a US-based FinTech company specializing in bill payment services.

Hacker IntelBroker claims to have breached Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), exposing sensitive data such as source code, certificates, and personal information (PII), now for sale on Breach Forums.

The Treasury Department has announced sanctions in response to a large-scale Chinese cyberattack targeting American telecommunications companies and breaching its own computer network.

Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP has disclosed a data breach impacting over 3.4 million individuals in December 2023.

Cybercriminals are exploiting the California wildfires by registering fake domains and using them to target victims with phishing scams.

CVE-2024-44243 is a critical macOS vulnerability discovered by Microsoft Threat Intelligence that allows attackers to bypass Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP).

Adobe released patches addressing over a dozen security flaws across various products, including Photoshop, Illustrator for iPad, Animate, Substance 3D Stager, and Substance 3D Designer.