Cybersecurity Highlights

Seiko Group Corporation, a Japanese company engaged in the production of semiconductors, SSD devices and watches, has stated that on July 28, 2023 it detected an unauthorized access to its servers and its data has been compromised.

As a result of the collaboration of several global cybersecurity agencies (CISA, NSA, FBI, ACSC, CCCS, NCSC-NZ, CERT-NZ and NCSC-UK), a joint advisory has been published reporting the top most exploited vulnerabilities for the year 2022.

Communications systems at 17 US Air Force stations were on alert for an information leak after a Tennessee-based engineer stole $90,000 worth of federal radio technology.

On 29 June, an employee accidentally uploaded a CSV file to the VirusTotal platform.

A flaw in the payment system of the Revolut finance company in the US allowed criminals to perpetrate a cyber-attack and misappropriate more than $20 million of its funds for several months in 2022, although isolated cases were already detected in 2021.

Deutsche Bank and its retail banking subsidiary Postbank suffered a data breach, which has affected an as yet unknown number of customers.