FBI Offers Decryption Tool to Over 500 Victims Around the World, Additional Victims Encouraged to Come Forward The Justice Department announced today a disruption campaign against the Blackcat ransomware group — also known as ALPHV or Noberus — that has targeted the computer networks of more than 1,000 victims and caused harm around the world […]
Reuters reports: Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji on Monday confirmed that a nationwide disruption to petrol stations was caused by a cyberattack. A hacking group that Iran accuses of having links to Israel claimed it carried out the attack which disrupted services at petrol stations across the country on Monday, Iranian state TV and Israeli […]
While many ransomware groups claim there’s nothing personal in what they are doing and that it’s “just business,” there are some lines even criminals should never cross. Interfering with patient care when lives might be on the line if care is delayed or disrupted is one such line. Attempting to harass, threaten, or extort seriously […]
A December 8 press release from Interpol begins: Read more at INTERPOL.
The Record reports: A ransomware attack in May exposed 2.5 million patients of hospitals connected to healthcare giant Norton Healthcare. In notices submitted to regulators in Maine and California last week, the company said it discovered the attack on May 9 and later confirmed that it was dealing with a ransomware incident. After an investigation, the company said the […]
Miklos Daniel Brody Retaliated Against His Former Employer, a Bank, byDamaging the Bank’s Cloud System and Stealing Valuable Computer Code SAN FRANCISCO – Miklos Daniel Brody was sentenced to 24 months in prison todayfor a network intrusion and for making false statements to a governmentagency, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and United StatesSecret […]
Reuters reports: Ukraine’s biggest mobile network operator, Kyivstar, was hit on Tuesday by what appeared to be the biggest cyber attack of the war with Russia so far, knocking out mobile and internet services for millions. Kyivstar has 24.3 million mobile subscribers – more than half of Ukraine’s population – as well as over 1.1 […]
Infosecurity Magazine reports: Proofpoint has warned recruiters of a skilled threat actor targeting them with emails designed to deploy malware. TA4557 is a financially motivated threat actor known to distribute the More_Eggs backdoor, which is designed to establish persistence, profile the targeted machine and drop additional payloads. Throughout 2022 and most of 2023 the actor has […]
SiliconAngle reports: Cisco Systems Inc.’s Talos Intelligence unit posted today new findings about the North Korean hacking group called Lazarus that outline new ways it’s targeting attacks. “We have observed Lazarus target companies in the manufacturing, agricultural and physical security sectors,” their analysts wrote in the post. The group has been around since 2010 and was responsible most recently […]
Dark Reading reports the findings of an Apple-commissioned study supports the adoption of end-to-end encryption to protect sensitive data from theft or misuse: In 2021 and 2022, data breaches exposed a staggering 2.6 billion personal records — some 1.5 billion of them last year alone. That number will likely be even higher in 2023 if […]
