The suspected ransomware attack Halliburton experienced in August had already cost it $35 million by the end of September, the oilfield service giant disclosed. Security Week reports: The incident came to light on August 22, when Halliburton, one of the world’s largest oilfield service providers, confirmed unauthorized access to some of its systems. The company immediately launched […]
When BlackCat pulled an exit scam in February after extorting Change Healthcare for $22 million, people started speculating how long it would be before they re-branded and re-emerged. We may have an answer now. The Register reports that both BlackCat (aka ALPHV) and Scattered Spider appear to be back: In October, security firm ReliaQuest responded […]
The Hacker News reports a significant arrest: Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier this year. The individual in question, Alexander “Connor” Moucka (aka Judische and Waifu), was apprehended on October 30, 2024, on the […]
Bleeping Computer reports that Interbank has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor started leaking data online. Even though the bank has yet to disclose the exact number of customers whose data was stolen or exposed in the breach, as first spotted by Dark Web Informer, a threat actor who uses the “kzoldyck” handle is […]
Customers’ personal information has been stolen from one of France’s major ISPs. Free S.A.S. confirmed the breach this past weekend. According to the firm, no passwords, bank card information, or the contents of communications (emails, SMS, or voicemails) were involved, and operations were not affected. But Bitdefender reports that the situation may be more serious […]
The Record reports: Four people were arrested in Italy on Friday, with dozens more under investigation, in connection with an alleged conspiracy that links current and former officials in the country’s security services to a private intelligence agency for the purposes of building illegal dossiers. The alleged creation of such dossiers has been a growing […]
CSO reports that increased pressures are putting CISOs in the hot seat, but should they bear all the blame when the inevitable comes? Should the entire C-suite have skin n the game? When security vendor Portnox reported in a survey that 77% of CISOs say they are either very or extremely worried about losing their job when […]
Eight months after the biggest breach ever involving patient data, Change Healthcare informed the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR) that it has sent individual notifications to 100 million affected patients. This is the first time they have revealed any actual number since an April update where they […]
A costly lesson to learn, but it sounds like Merck learned it. Fortune reports: Cybersecurity has always been a priority, but got even more attention inside Merck after the company was stung by the NotPetya cyberattack in 2017, which reportedly damaged more than 30,000 of the company’s computers. It led to $1.4 billion in claims […]
