Data Theft
London police arrests suspects linked to nursery breach, child doxing
The UK Metropolitan Police has arrested two suspects following an investigation into the doxing of children online after a ransomware attack on a chain of London-based nurseries. The 17-year-old suspects were taken into custody at their homes in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of blackmail and computer misuse. While the Met didn’t share more details […]
Salesforce refuses to pay ransom over widespread data theft attacks
Salesforce has confirmed that it will not negotiate with or pay a ransom to the threat actors behind a massive wave of data theft attacks that impacted the company’s customers this year. As first reported by Bloomberg, Salesforce emailed customers on Tuesday to say they would not be paying a ransom and warned that “credible threat […]
Electronics giant Avnet confirms breach, says stolen data unreadable
Electronic components distributor Avnet confirmed in a statement for GeekFeed that it suffered a data breach but noted that the stolen data is unreadable without proprietary tools. A company spokesperson told us that the incident occurred after unauthorized actors accessed a database hosted on an external service, which stored information used in the EMEA (Europe, Middle […]
Oracle patches EBS zero-day exploited in Clop data theft attacks
Oracle is warning about a critical E-Business Suite zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-61882 that allows attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution, with the flaw actively exploited in Clop data theft attacks. The flaw is within the Oracle Concurrent Processing product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: BI Publisher Integration) and has a CVSS base score of 9.8, […]
Clop extortion emails claim theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data
Mandiant and Google are tracking a new extortion campaign where executives at multiple companies received emails claiming that sensitive data was stolen from their Oracle E-Business Suite systems According to Genevieve Stark, Head of Cybercrime and Information Operations Intelligence Analysis at GTIG, the campaign began in late September. “This activity began on or before September […]
Unofficial Postmark MCP npm silently stole users’ emails
A npm package copying the official ‘postmark-mcp’ project on GitHub turned bad with the latest update that added a single line of code to exfiltrate all its users’ email communication. Published by a legitimate-looking developer, the malicious package was a perfect replica of the authentic one in terms of code and description, appearing as an official port […]
ShinyHunters claims 1.5 billion Salesforce records stolen in Drift hacks
The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens. For the past year, the threat actors have been targeting Salesforce customers in data theft attacks using social engineering and malicious OAuth applications to breach Salesforce instances and download data. The stolen data is then used […]
FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data
The FBI has issued a FLASH alert warning that two threat clusters, tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395, are compromising organizations’ Salesforce environments to steal data and extort victims. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with recent malicious cyber activities by cyber criminal groups UNC6040 […]
Jaguar Land Rover confirms data theft after recent cyberattack
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) confirmed today that attackers also stole “some data” during a recent cyberattack that forced it to shut down systems and instruct staff not to report to work. JRL functions as a standalone entity under Tata Motors India after its purchase from Ford in 2008. With an annual revenue of over $38 billion (£29 […]
MATLAB dev says ransomware gang stole data of 10,000 people
MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical simulation and computing software, revealed that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 10,000 people after breaching its network in April. The company disclosed the attack on May 27, when it linked ongoing service outages to a ransomware incident that disrupted access to some internal systems and online applications for […]