IDScan sued over 153 million licence breach, FalconFlank zero-day hijacks CrowdStrike, Magento stores backdoored with no patch
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IDScan sued over 153 million licence breach, FalconFlank zero-day hijacks CrowdStrike, Magento stores backdoored with no patch

C1AdvancedSeptember 7, 202614 min
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Identity verification firm IDScan faces multiple lawsuits and investigations after hackers allegedly breached it. The criminals offered over 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's license scans for sale. Nightmare Eclipse releases FalconFlank, a zero-day privilege escalation that abuses CrowdStrike's Falcon alongside other zero-days targeting Kaspersky, Avast, and Nvidia. Sansec disclosed an unpatched Magento/Adobe Commerce flaw "Style Smuggler" enabling unauthenticated code execution. Arctic Wolf observed active exploitation of PaperCut authentication bypass and RCE flaws against schools, including credential theft and lateral-movement prep. UK police data shows reported losses from hacked accounts...

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ID scan faces a wave of lawsuits over breach of 153 million driver's licenses. Nightmare Eclipse goes after popular security tools with four new zero days.

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Magenta stores are being backdoored right now. Attackers are using paper cut flaws to raid school networks. And Britain's account hack losses jump 417%. This is Cybersecurity Today,

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and I'm your host, David Chippley. Let's get started. The lawsuits have started landing in the biggest identity breach story of the year.

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