InfoSec News Nuggets 04/11/2023

KFC, Pizza Hut owner discloses data breach after ransomware attack  Yum! Brands, the brand owner of the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell fast food chains, is now sending data breach notification letters to an undisclosed number of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a January 13 ransomware attack. This comes after the company said that although some data was stolen from its network, it has no evidence that the attackers exfiltrated any customer information. In…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 03/28/2023

Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices  Android apps digitally signed by China’s third-biggest e-commerce company exploited a zero-day vulnerability that allowed them to surreptitiously take control of millions of end-user devices to steal personal data and install malicious apps, researchers from security firm Lookout have confirmed. The malicious versions of the Pinduoduo app were available in third-party markets, which users in China and elsewhere rely on because the official Google Play market is…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 7/20/2020

Iran-linked hackers recently targeted coronavirus drugmaker Gilead Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus. In one case, a fake email login page designed to steal passwords was sent in April to a top Gilead executive involved in legal and corporate affairs, according…
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