Bleeping Computer reports: American office supply retailer Staples took down some of its systems earlier this week after a cyberattack to contain the breach’s impact and protect customer data. Staples operates 994 stores in the US and Canada, along with 40 fulfillment centers for nationwide product storage and dispatch. The disclosure comes after multiple Reddit reports posted […]
Graham Cluley provides another example of a former employee going rogue and harming their former employer: Once again companies are being warned to be wary of past employees who may turn rogue. 28-year-old Andrew Mahn, of Derry, New Hampshire, has pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally hacked the network of his former company, telecoms firm Motorola, after he […]
The Crypto Times reports on an astonishing situation: The hacker behind KyberSwap’s $46 million exploit has shared a message with the KyberDAO Multisig wallet demanding to become Kyber Director and taking complete control over the company. In the onchain encoded message, the hacker has stated several demands as a part of the settlement and asked to be granted […]
The Wall Street Journal reports: Okta said hackers stole data for all of its customer support system users in a breach that the identity-verification company disclosed last month. Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury said all Okta Workforce Identity Cloud and Customer Identity Solution customers are affected by the hack, except for government customers that use […]
Ardent Health Services owns and operates 30 hospitals and health systems with 200+ sites of care with more than 1,400 aligned providers in six states. Earlier today, they posted a security incident notice on their site: Ardent Health Services and its affiliated entities (“Ardent”) became aware of an information technology cybersecurity incident on the morning of […]
TechStory reports: Nvidia, a renowned technology company, is facing a lawsuit alleging that one of its workers stole sensitive data from a former employer, Valeo, and then mistakenly divulged the stolen material during a video conference screen-sharing mishap. According to the lawsuit, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, a former Valeo employee who joined Nvidia in 2021, downloaded a […]
DataBreaches.net reports on a ransomware incident where the victim was re-encrypted — and then re-encrypted again. From there, things took a downward turn, with AlphV getting mad at Henry Schein and Coveware and re-encrypting Henry Schein to put more pressure on them to negotiate and pay. DataBreaches.net provides a chronology of updates, including what seems […]
The Telegraph reports: GCHQ is investigating a cyber attack on the London private hospital favoured by the Royal family. The spy agency’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is probing what King Edward VII’s Hospital described as “an IT security incident” during which a “third-party” obtained confidential medical information such as doctors’ letters and pathology reports relating to some patients. The […]
CNN reports: A network of hospitals in East Texas has not been able to accept ambulances to emergency rooms since Thanksgiving Day because of a “potential [cyber]security incident,” a hospital spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The hospital network, UT Health East Texas, is operating using “established downtime procedures” as the hospital investigates “a potential security incident” and works to bring computers back online, spokesperson Allison Pollan said in an email. Pollan did not respond to subsequent […]
AI generated cyberattacks are set to pose a major business operational risk
Digital Journal reports: What are the essential cybersecurity concerns for businesses as we head into 2024? To give some realistic expectations of what is to come for cybersecurity in the year ahead, Digital Journal sought the opinion of Skybox Security’s Adi Dubin. Dubin is particularly concerned about AI-generated cyberattacks. Indeed, threat actors’ use of generative AI has fuelled a significant […]