We round up the week\u0019s most important cybersecurity news.<\/p>\n
On February 17, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase stated<\/a> that its employees had fallen victim to an SMS phishing campaign. The incident occurred on February 5.<\/p>\n The targeted employees received text messages about the urgent need to log in to their account via the provided link. One recipient clicked it, entered their login and password.<\/p>\n The 2FA<\/span> on the account was bypassed by the attackers, who called the employee impersonating the IT department. The victim followed instructions and authenticated on their device.<\/p>\n The Coinbase security team detected the suspicious activity, promptly blocking the compromised account.<\/p>\n The attacker managed to obtain limited contact information of employees, including names, email addresses and phone numbers.<\/p>\n At the same time, the exchange stressed that customer data and their funds were not affected.<\/p>\n Coinbase suspected that the attack was carried out by the hacker group 0ktapus, also known as Scattered Spider, which has at least 130 similar breaches against other organisations.<\/p>\n On February 17, an unknown intruder breached the computer system of the FBI’s New York field office, according to CNN.<\/p>\n According to informed sources, the affected segment was used to investigate crimes related to the sexual exploitation of children.<\/p>\n According to the agency, this was a single incident that was promptly contained. The FBI provided no further comment on the investigation, including potential threat sources.<\/p>\n The game developer and publisher Activision confirmed unauthorized access to one of its internal Slack channels and data theft. The incident occurred in December 2022, but public disclosure came only after researchers from Vx-underground reported it.<\/p>\n .@Activision<\/a> was breached December 4th, 2022. The Threat Actors successfully phished a privileged user on the network. They exfiltrated sensitive work place documents as well as scheduled to be released content dating to November 17th, 2023.<\/p>\n Activision did not tell anyone. pic.twitter.com\/urD64iIlC5<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n FBI records malicious activity on internal network<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Call of Duty update schedule leaked online<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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