05 Mar 2026
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 03/05/2026

Iranian Drone Strikes Hit Amazon Data Centers in Gulf, Disrupting Cloud Services Iranian drone strikes directly hit two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE this week and caused damage to a third facility in Bahrain, disrupting approximately 60 AWS services across the Gulf region as Iran launched retaliatory strikes following a U.S. and Israeli operation that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Amazon confirmed the physical strikes, with two of the UAE's three…
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05 Aug 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 8/5/2025

Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks  French fashion giant Chanel is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce data theft attacks. Chanel says the breach was first detected on July 25th after threat actors gained access to a Chanel database hosted at a third-party service provider, as first reported by WWD. The breach only impacted customers in the United States and exposed personal contact information.    New…
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23 Jun 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 6/23/2025

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail  Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, Anthropic published new safety research testing 16 leading AI models from OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, and Meta. In a simulated, controlled…
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19 Jun 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 6/19/2025

Pro-Israel hackers drain $90 million from Iran crypto exchange, analytics firm says  Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, was hacked for more than $90 million Wednesday, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The funds were drained from platform wallets into addresses bearing anti-government messages explicitly referencing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, pointing to a politically motivated cyberattack, Elliptic said. Pro-Israel hacking group Gonjeshke Darande, or “Predatory Sparrow,” claimed responsibility for the attack and said it would release the exchange’s source code.…
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30 Aug 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 8/30/2024

Brain Cipher claims attack on Olympic venue, promises 300 GB data leak Nearly four weeks after the cyberattack on dozens of French national museums during the Olympic Games, the Brain Cipher ransomware group claims responsibility for the incident and says 300 GB of data will be leaked later today. Le Grand Palais and dozens of other national museums and institutions overseen by Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais (RMN-GP) were targeted by cybercriminals over…
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20 Aug 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 8/20/2024

The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age  The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking into ways it might use facial recognition technology to track the identities of migrant children, “down to the infant,” as they age, according to John Boyd, assistant director of the department’s Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), where a key part of his role is to research and develop future biometric identity…
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09 Feb 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 2/9/2024

Half of polled infosec pros say their degree was less than useful for real-world work Half of infosec professionals polled by Kaspersky said any cybersecurity knowledge they picked up from their higher education is at best somewhat useful for doing their day jobs. On the other hand, half said the know-how was at least very useful. We're a glass half-empty lot. The Moscow-headquartered multinational revealed those figures today in the first part of a multi-stage…
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01 Nov 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/01/2022

New open-source tool scans public AWS S3 buckets for secrets A new open-source 'S3crets Scanner' scanner allows researchers and red-teamers to search for 'secrets' mistakenly stored in publicly exposed or company's Amazon AWS S3 storage buckets. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud storage service commonly used by companies to store software, services, and data in containers known as buckets. Unfortunately, companies sometimes fail to properly secure their S3 buckets and thus publicly expose…
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29 Sep 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 09/29/2022

Stealthy hackers target military and weapons contractors in recent attack Security researchers have discovered a new campaign targeting multiple military contractors involved in weapon manufacturing, including an F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft components supplier. The highly targeted attacks begin with a phishing email sent to employees, leading to a multi-stage infection involving many persistence and detection avoidance systems. The campaign stands out for its secure C2 infrastructure and multiple layers of obfuscation in the PowerShell…
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16 Oct 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/16/2020

World’s fastest AI supercomputer is coming to Italy Nvidia today announced that its accelerated computing platform will be used to build the world’s fastest AI supercomputer. The new system — called Leonardo — is being constructed by French IT firm Atos for Italian inter-university consortium Cineca. It’s expected to deliver 10 exaflops of FP16 AI performance, which will be harnessed by Cineca researchers to simulate planetary forces behind climate change and molecular movements inside a coronavirus molecule. Nvidia…
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11 Feb 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 2/11/2020

1 -  FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases of Chinese theft of US technology Members of the US government held a conference in Washington this week on the topic of Chinese theft of intellectual property from US technology firms and the US academic sector. Officials said the purpose of the conference -- named the China Initiative Conference -- was to bring the US private sector and the academic and research communities up to speed…
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