The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today notified Congress of a major information security incident, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. This finding is the result of internal and independent third-party reviews of OCC emails and email attachments that were subject to unauthorized access. On February 11, 2025, the […]
Only days after news sites reported that RansomHub was collaborating with EvilCorp in developing its attacks, RansomHub appeared to have been the victim of a takeover by another group. Or perhaps it was just a merger? DragonForce recently posted an announcement on the RAMP cybercrime forum claiming that it had become partners with RansomHub. A […]
BVI News reports: The BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) continues to grapple with the aftermath of a ransomware attack that occurred in August 2024, resulting in operational disruptions and significant financial costs. General Manager Dr Neil Smith disclosed that the cyberattack cost the corporation “magnitudes of hundreds of thousands of dollars,” though he refrained from specifying […]
The Guardian reports: Hackers have targeted Australian superannuation funds this week, with a small number of customers losing a combined half a million dollars, and compromising some members’ data, the industry’s peak body says. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said in a statement on Friday that hackers attempted to breach the cyber defences of […]
The Record reports: For nearly six years, Gen. Paul Nakasone led two of the most powerful — and secretive — arms of American national security: the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. One listens. The other talks back. Under the first Trump administration, Cyber Command got something it never had before: the green light not just to defend, […]
Here’s a reminder that sometimes, criminals lie. Yes, we know you may not really need that reminder, and sometimes criminals tell the truth and organizations lie or wordsmith, but in today’s news, The Register reports: A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of “highly sensitive” data from Check Point – something the […]
KXAN in Texas reports: Unsealed federal court records revealed “a security researcher and co-founder of Anonymous,” which is a worldwide hacking group, has been arrested in Canada and accused of allegedly hacking the Texas GOP website (texasgop.org) on Sept. 11, 2021. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Aubrey Cottle, […]
The Hill reports: The $350 million T-Mobile agreed to pay in a 2022 class action settlement will finally start going out to customers next month. The class action lawsuit came after a cyberattack in August 2021 compromised the personal data of 76 million T-Mobile customers in the U.S. The data that was breached included customers’ […]
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently announced an online tool to help businesses and federal institutions that experience a privacy breach to assess whether the breach is likely to create a real risk of significant harm to individuals:
They publicly denied, denied, denied having a breach of Oracle Cloud after someone put data up for sale, but while Oracle was publicly denying any breach, their customers and researchers were confirming that there had been one. Now we learn that Oracle Health had been telling some hospitals and healthcare clients that there had been […]
