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Scattered Spider Hackers Now Targeting Financial Sector
Threat actors known as Scattered Spider are reportedly turning their attention to the financial sector, hitting banks and insurance groups. Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions, which has been tracking the group, reports they have targeted 29 companies since April 20. Scattered Spider is the group that was previously linked to disrupting casinos and hotels such as MGM […]
U.S. Charges Russian National with Developing and Operating LockBit Ransomware
Alleged LockBit Developer Created and Operated Most Prolific Ransomware Variant Under Aliases “LockBit” and “LockBitSupp”; U.S State Department Offers Reward Up to $10M; U.S. Department of Treasury Designates LockBit Administrator for Sanctions The U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges today against a Russian national for his alleged role as the creator, developer, and administrator of the […]
ZircoDATA hack exposes more than 60,000, including victims of family violence, sex assault
Another vendor hack compromises sensitive information An attack on a documents storage service has resulted in the leak of sensitive information of victims of family violence and sexual assault who had been treated at Monash Health, the public health service in Victoria. The attack also compromised the personal information of current and former students at […]
Former Cybersecurity Consultant Arrested For $1.5 Million Extortion Scheme Against IT Company
A reminder to carefully vet contractors and to terminate access promptly when their contract ends Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that VINCENT CANNADY was arrested in connection with his scheme to extort a publicly traded information technology infrastructure services provider of […]
FCC Fines Largest Wireless Carriers for Sharing Location Data
FCC Fines Largest Wireless Carriers for Sharing Location DataFCC Fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Nearly $200 Million for Illegally Sharing Access to Customers’ Location Data A significant press release from the Federal Communications Commission today: WASHINGTON, April 29, 2024—Today, the Federal Communications Commission fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to […]
California Statewide Automated Welfare System hacked; 19,000 accounts affected
The Record reports: More than 19,000 online accounts on a California state platform for welfare programs may have been accessed by hackers for nearly a year. Officials at the California Statewide Automated Welfare System filed breach notification documents with state regulators earlier this month, warning participants in the BenefitsCal program about an intruder. A spokesperson explained that […]
Wealthy Taxpayers Alerted to Leaked Data Years After IRS Breach
There is an update to the IRS data breach by contractor Charles Littlejohn, who leaked returns from former President Trump, Elon Musk, and other billionaires. Bloomberg Law reports: Some taxpayers are learning that their data was leaked in the widespread breach by a former IRS contractor that led to the release of former President Donald […]
10 Cyber Incident Response Tips From Those Who’ve Had a Breach and Lived to Tell About It
Information Week recently reported on an interesting panel at the RSA conference in San Francisco: Patricia Titus, chief information security officer (CISO) of Booking Holdings Inc., moderated the panel “Life After the Breach: A Survivor’s Guide.” The panelists included Tim Crothers, CISO of Mandiant; Russ Ayres, SVP and deputy CISO of credit bureau Equifax; and […]