Recently, staff for the Canadian game studio, Red Barrels, confirmed that they had identified a cyberattack that was impacting their internal network and may cause delays in the release of the next game in the Outlast series. It is believed that this incident may have allowed unauthorized access to some of their proprietary data and could impact the production timeline in unforeseen ways. Fortunately, the team was quick to spot and isolate the attack, with an investigation leading to a swift resolution to the method of intrusion.
Major US water utility suffers massive security breach
Over the weekend, officials for the largest publicly regulated water treatment utility in the US, American Water, fell victim to a cyberattack which could impact millions of citizens. As the investigation is ongoing, staff have confirmed that water services have continued to function as normal, while they determine the overall extent of the intrusion into their systems. This incident is the latest in a string of attacks focusing on utility services, and specifically water treatment and management, and showcasing the lack of cybersecurity resilience across the entire industry.
Thousands of Comcast customers affected by FBCS breach
As the investigation into the February data breach at the debt collection firm, Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), it has been revealed that roughly 238,000 Comcast customers have also had their sensitive information compromised. While the main breach occurred on FBCS’s internal systems, the attackers were able to gain access and download a significant amount of client data before staff could isolate the affected systems.
ADT security hit with second data breach
At the beginning of the week, staff at ADT home and small business security confirmed that the company had fallen victim to a data breach after some threat actors illicitly accessed their systems and began exfiltrating employee data. This incident comes just two months after ADT announced their first data breach of the year, when threat actors published sensitive data for over 30,000 customers on a known hacker forum.
Qualcomm patches exploited Zero-day vulnerability
Chip manufacturer, Qualcomm, recently pushed out patches for 20 critical vulnerabilities, including one that has been actively exploited in Zero-day attacks, tracked as CVE-2024-43047. Qualcomm learned about CVE-2024-43047 being potentially exploited in the wild from Google’s Threat Analysis Group, who found some evidence of Android devices being compromised from this vulnerability. It is believed that this vulnerability is present in over 60 different chipsets, from a large range of products, but has since received a confirmed patch.
