Brian Krebs reports: In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. “Pompompurin,” is slated for resentencing next month […]
Footnotes in CrowdStrike’s forensics report offer troubling details of Deloitte’s handling of incident logs. Rhode Island Current reports that the attack on RIBridges triggered hundreds of firewall alerts during the five months that attackers were in the network and were transferring gigabytes of data. But the state’s vendor, Deloitte, did not know the system had […]
Coinbase says they are protecting their customers and standing up to the extortionists. Tl;dr: Cyber criminals bribed and recruited a group of rogue overseas support agents to steal Coinbase customer data to facilitate social engineering attacks. These insiders abused their access to customer support systems to steal the account data for a small subset of […]
Over the course of the last year, Ascension Health has been affected by several third-party data breaches impacting its patients across multiple states. TechTarget reports: Ascension Health, a Missouri-based Catholic health system, has disclosed several third-party data breaches in 2025, impacting patients across its network of hospitals and care facilities. While Ascension posted notices for […]
How-to Geek reports, “There have been rumors about a large-scale data breach impacting nearly 90 million Steam accounts. However, the original source was debunked, so you probably don’t have anything to worry about.” But if you want to err on the side of caution, it wouldn’t hurt to change your password for Steam and anywhere […]
Bleeping Computer reports that an unnamed 45-year-old suspect linked to DoppelPaymer ransomware attacks targeting Dutch organizations in 2021 has been arrested by Moldovan police. Police officers searched the suspect’s home and car on May 6, seizing an electronic wallet, €84,800, two laptops, a mobile phone, a tablet, six bank cards, and multiple data storage devices. […]
CNA reports that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) states that recent data breach of a California consulting firm exposed data of Catholic clergy abuse survivors in nearly a dozen bankruptcy lawsuits. In a May 6 letter, which is embedded below and originally appeared on Catholic News Agency, the DOJ informs a law firm about […]
The Times of India reports: Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has issued a warning about a Russia-based hacking group, known as COLDRIVER. The Alphabet-owned company claims that this hacking group is using a newly identified malware called LOSTKEYS to steal data. The tech giant claims that this malware, which was tracked in multiple attacks this […]
The conflict between Pakistan and India escalated sharply over the past week. Pakistan has now launched strikes against Indian military bases, claiming retaliation for strikes by India. Strikes in cyberspace also continue. Radio Pakistan reports: According to details, the official website of the BJP has been hacked. Amongst the hacked websites are the Crime Research Investigation Agency, Mahanagar […]
Ars Technica reports on another concerning security issue involving DOGE: Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware, a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years. Kyle Schutt […]
