Bleeping Computer reports: Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted by a hacking collective known as “Scattered Spider” BleepingComputer has learned from multiple sources. Marks & Spencer (M&S) is a British multinational retailer that employs 64,000 employees and sells various products, including clothing, food, […]
Deccan Herald reports: A major data breach in the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s (BWSSB) application portal for water connection has exposed over 2.90 lakh customer records. The access to these records, including PAN, Aadhaar numbers, payment data and mobile numbers, was put on sale on an underground data leaks forum on the internet […]
Bleeping Computer reports: The ransomware scene is re-organizing, with one gang known as DragonForce working to gather other operations under a cartel-like structure. DragonForce is now incentivizing ransomware actors with a distributed affiliate branding model, providing other ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations a means to carry out their business without dealing with infrastructure maintenance cost and effort. […]
Oregon Public Broadcasting reports: A ransomware group has released over a million files that the group says it stole from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. The files appear to include sensitive information about DEQ employees. It’s not clear if private vehicle registration data or other information related to Oregonians who don’t work at DEQ […]
Jagran reports: The Army College of Nursing website has been allegedly hacked by a Pakistan-based hacker group called Team Insane PK, days after the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. The hacker attack took place two days after India announced five strict measures against Pakistan including the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and declaring […]
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BankInfoSecurity reports: Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System is notifying more than 5.5 million patients that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, could have been stolen in a March hack. The incident, which is among several other recent major health data hacks, ranks as the largest health data breach reported to federal regulator so […]
Blue Shield of California joined the ranks of entities that discovered they were unlawfully sending personal or protected health information of website visitors to advertisers via tracking pixels embedded on their sites. TechCrunch reports: Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California is notifying millions of people of a data breach. The company confirmed on Wednesday […]
Security Week reports that The city of Abilene, Texas, has been working on restoring systems that were taken offline to contain a cyberattack: The assault started on April 18, when some of the systems in the city’s internal network were reported as unresponsive, and prompted the immediate activation of the incident response plan. To secure […]
FBI IC3, Verizon DBIR, Google M-Trends reports are out—here are key takeaways
Risky Biz News reports: There are a handful of seminal reports in the cybersecurity industry, and lo and behold, three of them were released on Wednesday. Mandiant’s team, now part of Google Cloud, released M-Trends, Verizon released its Data Breach Investigations Report (aka DBIR), and the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its yearly Internet Crime Report [PDF]. […]