Attorney General James Secures $14.2 Million from Car Insurance Companies Over Data Breaches
From the New York Attorney General’s Office:
British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%
The Register reports: Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government’s cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled. GCHQ’s cyber arm, the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC), said in its annual review published today that its incident management team handled 429 […]
DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
KrebsOnSecurity.com reports: The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S. providers is complicating efforts to limit collateral damage from the botnet’s attacks, which shattered […]
Policyholder Plot Twist: Cyber Insurer Sues Policyholder’s Cyber Pros
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: When a cyber incident occurs and the insurer pays out the claim, they often face the frustrating reality that pursuing the actual criminals – the threat actors – for indemnification is virtually impossible. Thus, insurers are now turning to subrogation claims against the very cybersecurity vendors entrusted by policyholders to protect […]
LockBit, DragonForce, and Qilin form a ‘cartel’ to dictate ransomware market conditions (1)
CSO reports: Three of the most notorious ransomware-as-a-service operations have formed a criminal cartel aimed at coordinating attacks and sharing resources in what they describe as an increasingly “challenging” ransomware business environment. DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit announced the partnership in early September, with DragonForce proposing the collaboration shortly after LockBit reemerged with its LockBit 5.0 […]
Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users
Bleeping Computer reports: Discord says they will not be paying threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company’s Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people. The company is also pushing back on claims that 2.1 million photos of government IDs […]
Critical Vulnerability Alert: Oracle E-Business Suite
The FBI Cyber Division has posted the following on LinkedIn to emphasize this critical alert and the need to patch and hunt promptly: Oracle just issued a Security Alert for CVE-2025-61882, a remote code execution vulnerability (CVSS 9.8 – Critical) affecting Oracle E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.14. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute […]
Two arrested over nursery chain Kido hack
IT Pro reports two men have been arrested in connection with the attack on Kido schools in which individuals calling themselves Radiant Group first posted pictures, names, and details of nursery school kids and threatened to dump all 8,000, and then deleted the data and apologized. The UK’s Metropolitan Police have arrested two teenagers for […]
Red Hat Confirms GitLab Instance Hack, Data Theft
Security Week reports: Red Hat on Thursday confirmed that one of its GitLab instances was hacked after a threat actor claimed to have stolen sensitive data belonging to the company and its customers. It was initially reported that the hackers had targeted a GitHub instance, but the enterprise software giant clarified that it was actually […]
ParkMobile pays… $1 each for 2021 data breach that hit 22 million
Bleeping Computer reports: ParkMobile has finally wrapped up a class action lawsuit over the platform’s 2021 data breach that hit 22 million users. But there’s a catch: victims are receiving compensation in the form of a $1 in-app credit, which they must claim manually. And, it comes with an expiration date. In-app $0.25 credit can be […]