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Govtech giant Conduent confirms client data stolen in January cyberattack
American business services giant and government contractor Conduent disclosed today that client data was stolen in a January 2025 cyberattack. Conduent is a business services company that provides digital platforms and solutions for government and commercial clients in transportation, healthcare, customer experience, and human resources. The company has over 33,000 employees and provides services to half of Fortune 100 companies…
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Food giant WK Kellogg discloses data breach linked to Clop ransomware
US food giant WK Kellogg Co is warning employees and vendors that company data was stolen during the 2024 Cleo data theft attacks. Cleo software is a managed file transfer utility that was targeted by the Clop ransomware gang en masse at the end of last year. This attack leveraged two zero-day flaws tracked as CVE-2024-50623 and CVE-2024-55956, allowing the threat actors…
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“I LOVE this company!” Looking back on 50 years of tech giant Microsoft
When you hear the phrase “Dance like nobody is watching…” what immediately springs to mind? Although it’s been reused many times in modern music, it’s believed that it originates from Mark Twain. Regardless of its true origin, I always think back to some of my earliest memories. That of being in nursery school, hearing some music, and it just taking…
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Retail giant Sam’s Club investigates Clop ransomware breach claims
Sam’s Club, an American warehouse supermarket chain owned by U.S. retail giant Walmart, is investigating claims of a Clop ransomware breach. The Walmart division operates over 600 warehouse clubs with millions of members across the United States and Puerto Rico and almost 200 additional locations in Mexico and China. Sam’s Club has over 2.3 million employees and reported a total…
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Sperm donation giant California Cryobank warns of a data breach
US sperm donor giant California Cryobank is warning customers it suffered a data breach that exposed customers’ personal information. California Cryobank is a full-service sperm bank providing frozen donor sperm and specialized reproductive services, such as egg and embryo storage. The company is the largest sperm bank in the US and services all 50 states and more than 30 countries worldwide. California…
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Data breach at Japanese telecom giant NTT hits 18,000 companies
Japanese telecommunication services provider NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. The data breach was discovered in early February 2025, but the exact date when the hackers gained initial access to NTT’s systems hasn’t been determined. “NTT Communications Corporation discovered on February 5 that our facilities had been…
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Ransomware gang Qilin claims responsibility for cyber attack on newspaper giant Lee Enterprises
Ransomware group Qilin today claimed responsibility for a February 3, 2025 cyber attack on Lee Enterprises. The attack disrupted many of the company’s 70-plus newspapers and other publications. Lee Enterprises has not verified Qilin’s claim. In an SEC disclosure filed on February 12, the company said, “threat actors unlawfully accessed the Company’s network, encrypted critical applications, and exfiltrated certain files.”…
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Another ransomware gang says it breached IT giant Conduent
Ransomware gang SafePay today claimed responsibility for a January 2025 cyber attack against IT giant Conduent. Conduent suffered an outage at the time that it confirmed on January 22 was the result of a cyber security incident. The outage disrupted electronic money transfers and EBT payments made by its clients, which include half of Fortune 100 companies, for two days.…
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Venture capital giant Insight Partners hit by cyberattack
New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners has disclosed that its systems were breached in January following a social engineering attack. The company manages over $90 billion in regulatory assets and has invested in over 800 software and technology startups and companies worldwide during its 30 years of activity. In a statement released Tuesday, the firm said some…
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Sarcoma ransomware claims breach at giant PCB maker Unimicron
A relatively new ransomware operation named ‘Sarcoma’ has claimed responsibility for an attack against the Unimicron printed circuit boards (PCB) maker in Taiwan. The cybercriminals have published samples of files allegedly stolen from the company’s systems during the attack and threaten to leak everything next week if a ransom is not paid. In a new listing added to Sarcoma’s leak site yesterday,…
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