Major Incidents or Breaches
- Iran’s state-owned TV broadcaster was hacked mid-broadcast, with programming interrupted to air protest videos against the government.
- The Taiwanese cryptocurrency exchange BitoPro attributed a cyberattack resulting in the theft of $11 million in cryptocurrency to the North Korean Lazarus Group.
- American insurance company Aflac disclosed a breach as part of a broader campaign targeting US insurance providers, with potential theft of personal data. The campaign is linked to Scattered Spider.
- A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack peaking at 7.3 Tbps targeted a hosting provider, with Cloudflare mitigating the incident. This is the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.
- A significant data breach exposed a plain text file containing 184 million passwords for services including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.
- Reports surfaced regarding a leak of 16 billion passwords from various data breaches, raising concerns about widespread credential exposure.
Notable Threat Actor Activity