State and local governments continue to be targeted by threat actors. Here are three current situations in the news: Mission, Texas. Valley Central reports: The cybersecurity attack on the city of Mission has prompted the Mayor to declare a state of local disaster. Mayor Norie Gonzalez Garza sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, […]
Tech Radar reports on an exposed data set discovered by a researcher: A dataset contai,ning 820,750 records totaling 122GB has been discovered online, most likely belonging to German tracking software firm Lost & Found, which primarily services the aviation industry. As revealed by security researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, this was in an unprotected and publicly exposed dataset […]
Top Class Actions reports: Mortgage lender loanDepot agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2024 data breach that compromised the information of 16.9 million customers. The loanDepot settlement benefits individuals who received a data breach notice from loanDepot informing them their information may have been compromised in a data […]
Dark Reading reports: Medusa ransomware attacks are increasingly becoming a core tool for a threat group known as “Spearwing,” which has amassed hundreds of victims since 2023; nearly 400, in fact, have been listed on its leak site. The ransom demands when using Medusa ransomware range from $100,000 to a whopping $15 million, according to […]
Bleeping Computer reports: Japanese telecommunication services provider NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. The data breach was discovered in early February 2025, but the exact date when the hackers gained initial access to NTT’s systems hasn’t been determined. “NTT Communications Corporation discovered […]
ABC News reports that the Department of Justice has announced indictments against 12 Chinese nationals involved in cyberespionage in U.S. v. Wu Haibo et al., U.S. v. Yin Kecheng, U.S. v. Zhou Shuai et al.: Twelve Chinese nationals, including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company, have been charged in connection with global […]
Candid.Technology reports: A ransomware gang called Hunters International has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack on Indian tech firm Tata Technologies. The group has listed the company on its dark web leak site and adds that they stole over 730,000 files amounting to nearly 1.4 TB of data, threatening to leak to the public within […]
Dark Reading reports: Qilin, a Russian-speaking cybercrime group, has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that impacted Lee Enterprises’ operations in early February. Lee Enterprises is one of the largest newspaper groups in the US, with publications in 72 markets, including The Buffalo News, Omaha World-Herald, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It filed a report last month with the SEC […]
Teiss reports: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and its parent company, Point32Health, have reached a $16 million settlement to resolve claims arising from a 2023 ransomware attack that compromised the sensitive data of nearly three million individuals. The agreement follows multiple class action lawsuits that were consolidated into a single case in the U.S. District Court […]
If you thought your small or medium-sized business isn’t on any criminals’ radar, think again. Forbes reports: It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of thinking that large business targets are the ones that need to worry about being attacked, be that by way of ransomware, infostealers or phishing. The truth, however, is that hackers will look […]
