Cyber incidents in the public sector rarely begin with chaos. More often, they start quietly, with access that appears routine and activity that blends into normal operations. That pattern is evident in a recent breach involving the Victoria Department of Education, where unauthorized access exposed personal information belonging to current and former students and triggered
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Multi-factor authentication has long been treated as a security finish line. Once enabled, organizations assume that account takeover risks drop dramatically. Recent attacker behavior suggests otherwise. New reporting details a growing wave of adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing campaigns that are specifically designed to bypass MFA by hijacking authentication sessions in real time, according to IT Pro.
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A recent disclosure revealed a critical flaw in AWS CodeBuild that could allow attackers to abuse CI/CD pipelines and inject malicious code into trusted software builds by exploiting weaknesses in webhook validation, according to WebProNews. Rather than targeting production systems directly, the issue exposed how attackers can compromise software supply chains by manipulating trusted automation.
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A recent disclosure revealed that data associated with more than 17.5 million Instagram accounts was exposed through a large-scale data leak, with records reportedly including user IDs, contact details, and account metadata, according to CyberPress. While no direct breach of Instagram’s core infrastructure has been publicly confirmed, the exposed dataset highlights a persistent challenge for
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