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Water utilities group partners with DEF CON offshoot for Water Watch Center

The Record reports: A national water association is creating a program designed to provide threat intelligence and cybersecurity services to underfunded water and wastewater systems across the U.S. On Friday, the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) launched a partnership with DEF CON Franklin — an organization that has sought to pair volunteer cybersecurity experts with cash-strapped water systems in need of their expertise.  The Water Watch Center (WWC) will provide direct support to smaller water utilities to mitigate attacks, including the recent

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Personal details could have been leaked as 1,500 charities hit by cyber-attack

Non-profit organizations are not immune to cyberattacks by unscrupulous threat actors. In this case, a third-party vendor was hit, as Yahoo! UK reports: An investigation has been launched after Southampton Hospitals Charity is among 1,500 potentially affected by a cyber attack. Southampton Hospitals Charity confirmed it is one of the charities targeted in a cyber-security incident linked to Beacon CRM, a customer relationship management provider. The charity uses Beacon’s system to manage supporter records, and Beacon informed the charity of

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Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches

The Record reports: A Canadian national is facing decades in prison for participating in the hacking of data storage platform Snowflake.  Connor Riley Moucka, 26, pleaded guilty to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy on Wednesday in a Washington state federal court. He will be sentenced on October 27 and is facing up to 32 years in prison. Moucka and others used stolen login credentials to breach Snowflake and steal troves of information from at

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Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service

The Hacker News reports: A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, according to the Justice Department. Silnikau, a 40-year-old Belarusian national who worked under the handles “J.P. Morgan,” “lansky” and “xxx,” did not carry out most

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Paidwork breach exposes 23M user records

Fox News reports: Making a few extra dollars online should not put your bank details or identity at risk. Yet that is the concern for people who used Paidwork, an online earnings application. A leaked database tied to the platform reportedly contains information from more than 23 million accounts. If you ever signed up, now is a good time to take the warning seriously. Paidwork is a microtask platform that offers small payments for completing online activities. Those jobs can

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LATEST NEWS ON HACKING, CYBER SECURITY & DATA BREACH

Featured News and Articles

Critical Infrastructure

Water utilities group partners with DEF CON offshoot for Water Watch Center

The Record reports: A national water association is creating a program designed to provide threat intelligence and cybersecurity services to underfunded water and wastewater systems across the U.S. On Friday, the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) launched a partnership with DEF CON Franklin — an organization that has sought to pair volunteer cybersecurity experts with cash-strapped water systems in need of their expertise.  The Water Watch Center (WWC) will provide direct support to smaller water utilities to mitigate attacks, including the recent

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Personal details could have been leaked as 1,500 charities hit by cyber-attack

Non-profit organizations are not immune to cyberattacks by unscrupulous threat actors. In this case, a third-party vendor was hit, as Yahoo! UK reports: An investigation has been launched after Southampton Hospitals Charity is among 1,500 potentially affected by a cyber attack. Southampton Hospitals Charity confirmed it is one of the charities targeted in a cyber-security incident linked to Beacon CRM, a customer relationship management provider. The charity uses Beacon’s system to manage supporter records, and Beacon informed the charity of

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Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches

The Record reports: A Canadian national is facing decades in prison for participating in the hacking of data storage platform Snowflake.  Connor Riley Moucka, 26, pleaded guilty to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy on Wednesday in a Washington state federal court. He will be sentenced on October 27 and is facing up to 32 years in prison. Moucka and others used stolen login credentials to breach Snowflake and steal troves of information from at

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Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service

The Hacker News reports: A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, according to the Justice Department. Silnikau, a 40-year-old Belarusian national who worked under the handles “J.P. Morgan,” “lansky” and “xxx,” did not carry out most

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