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 […]
YourErie.com reports: Read more at YourErie.com. Although not mentioned in their report, this incident was reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on November 9 as affecting 168,921 patients. Also not mentioned on WGH’s website is that the threat actors are known and they are leaking the employee and patient data on […]
SiliconAngle reports: Hackers have stolen the personal data of more than 8.4 million patients from Welltok Inc., a Denver-based company that provides software for healthcare organizations. Welltok first disclosed the breach in October without sharing the full details of the incident. On Wednesday, it revealed that the hackers had stolen information belonging to some 8,493,379 […]
The Record reports on what appears to be another CitrixBleed incident: CTS, a managed service provider (MSP) for law firms in the United Kingdom, is “urgently investigating” a cyberattack that has disrupted its services — potentially leaving hundreds of British law firms unable to access their case management systems. The company announced Friday that it was “experiencing […]
The Straits Times reports: Another South Korean government-run online service suffered an outage on Nov 24, marking the fourth such failure within the past week. A website and mobile applications providing online ID services went down, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. The breakdown in the government’s e-ID service on Nov 24 […]
Americans who hoped to close on home sales this week may have had their hopes dashed by an attack on Fidelity National Financial. The Register reports: Fortune 500 insurance biz Fidelity National Financial (FNF) has confirmed that it has fallen victim to a “cybersecurity incident.” The announcement came in the form of an 8-K filing […]
All too often, attempts at responsible disclosure are ignored or otherwise fail to get data locked down. When those who discover data leaks repeatedly try to get data owners to secure their data but are ignored, they may decide to reveal the leak publicly even though the data are still unsecured. Today’s example is brought […]
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 […]