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90 Data Breach Trends & Statistics for 2026
Learn the top data breach statistics of the last several years and learn about common causes, how they vary by industry, and future trends.
Learn the top data breach statistics of the last several years and learn about common causes, how they vary by industry, and future trends.
Posted by David Adrian, Javier Castro & Peter Kotwicz, Chrome Security Team Android recently announced Advanced Protection, which extends Google’s Advanced Protection Program to a device-level security setting for Android users that need heightened security—such as journalists, elected officials, and public figures. Advanced Protection gives you the ability to activate Google’s strongest security for mobile devices, providing greater peace of mind that you’re better protected against the most s…
Uncover top cybercrime trends, data breaches, and essential workforce insights to bolster your defenses with this comprehensive roundup of cybersecurity statistics.
Following the arrest of the cybercriminal behind the aliases ALTDOS, DESORDEN, GHOSTR, and 0mid16B, Group-IB provides a deep dive into his activities, uncovering striking similarities and unmasking the cybercriminal that breached more than 90 instances of data leaks worldwide over the span of four years in operation.
Discover how smartphone manufacturers conceal security flaws, the risks these vulnerabilities pose to users and businesses, and actionable steps to protect devices from data breaches, identity theft, and exploitative attacks.
If a malicious actor with prior access to an AWS environment has permission to modify the S3 Replication Service role access policy, they could abuse cross-account replication to exfiltrate stolen data to an external bucket under their control. Moreover, when configured to replicate to multiple buckets at once, and if logging is only scoped to specific buckets (as opposed to being set to log "all current and future buckets"), then the S3 Replication Service only logs a putObject event to CloudT…
Unsecured public-facing database allowed anyone to access ID selfies for months
Keep your MSP armed and ready for attacks, hacks and data breaches with the latest trends in cybersecurity.
CloudFormation allows the use of Lambda-backed resource providers, wherein Lambda can be used to write custom provisioning logic to be executed during CloudFormation stack operations. The aforementioned Lambda functions were executed in an AWS-managed account (thus effectively allowing arbitrary code execution in that account), and were passed a set of credentials ("platformCredentials") for a role in this account that had several EventBridge permissions. These were sufficient for an attacker t…
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