09/10/2023
Good morning. Wish you all have a lovely weekend. Let’s have a view of the latest news in data industry you should keep an eye on last week. Here is 1-minute read newsletter.
1.“Security researchers have discovered a prolific new Android Trojan designed to covertly harvest user information including banking app credentials, with a view to hijacking and draining their accounts. Dubbed ‘GoldDigger’ by Group-IB, the Trojan has been active since at least June 2023 and is currently targeting users of over 50 Vietnamese banking apps, as well as e-wallets and crypto-wallets. However, the malware also features translations into additional languages, hinting at plans for further expansion in Asia, Europe and South America.”
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/golddigger-android-trojan-drains/
2.“OpenSea API tokens were compromised in a third-party breach, exposing customer information and allowing hackers to make unauthorized requests. The leading NFT marketplace told its customers that their API keys were compromised after a third-party vendor experienced a security incident.”
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/third-party-data-breach-exposes-opensea-api-tokens-to-abuse-by-hackers/
3.“Already under investigation by the data protection authorities (DPAs) of several EU nations, OpenAI is now facing scrutiny in Poland in response to an August GDPR complaint.”
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/another-eu-investigation-for-chatgpt-following-poland-gdpr-complaint/
4.“The Financial Conduct Authority is at the centre of a data protection scandal over a policy of ‘intercepting and diverting’ emails of its staff to keep track of people ‘considered a nuisance’, according to reports.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/fca-in-data-protection-scandal-over-intercepting-and-diverting-emails/ar-AA1hy8fc
5.“The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) faced a cyberattack that allowed hackers to exfiltrate a database containing a list of online users, the organization announced.”
https://cybernews.com/security/european-standards-organization-etsi-hacked/