According to the firm, Chrome -based browser that automatically updated between December 25 and December 26 were impacted by the data breach, which compromised version 24.10.4 of Cyberhaven’s Chrome extension.
It is recommended that users who were using Cyberhaven’s Chrome browser extension in version 24.10.4 update to version 24.10.5 or higher, change or remove any passwords that aren’t FIDOv2, and check logs for any “suspicious” behavior.
Cyberhaven: Hackers targeted advertising AI platforms and social media logins.
According to Cyberhaven, preliminary results indicate that the attacker seemed to be aiming for login credentials to particular social media and advertising AI systems.
Following the Chrome extension attack, Cyberhaven announced that it is actively working with federal law enforcement and that it has informed all of its customers, both impacted and unaffected, about the situation.
Howard Ting, the CEO of Cyberhaven, stated in a blog post that “maximum transparency is one of Cyberhaven’s core values, and we are acting with these first principles to retain the trust we have earned from our customers.”
The business has also taken the hacked Chrome extension down from the Chrome Web Store and replaced it with a secure version.
In other recent data breach headlines, a customer accused diagnostic imaging services provider Akumin of being behind an October data breach and launched a class action lawsuit against the company late last month. As seen by a string of hacks of Google Chrome browser extensions that began in mid-December and continued over the Christmas season, hackers never take a vacation. Here is all the information you require regarding the current attacks that circumvent Google Chrome’s two-factor authentication.
The customer says that Akumin’s carelessness caused the data breach, which revealed “vast amounts” of protected health information and personally identifiable information, including names, Social Security numbers, and medical records, among other things.
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