No ransomware gang has claimed responsiblity for the November 21 attack on the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust but a second attack on a children’s hospital is also causing significant problems. The Register reports: The attack on Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is apparently unconnected […]
It’s that time when we put aside our news activities and share some good times with family and friends. But what would Thanksgiving be without reflecting on what we are grateful for, right? We know that this year is difficult for some families who have fought bitterly over politics and the election. Others have had […]
Hackers have made public the medical data of 750,000 French citizens following a cyberattack on MediBoard, an electronic patient record system. As seen on MSN: The attackers claim to have stolen data from a total of 1.5 million individuals, including sensitive medical information. According to Bleeping Computer, a hacker or group using the aliases “nears” or […]
Two auto insurance companies will pay over $11 million to New York after data from over 120,000 New York customers was leaked in a November 2020 cyber attack that allowed hackers to exploit the state’s unemployment system. Government Technology reports: Both GEICO and Travelers, major national insurance companies, will pay penalties for their poor data […]
U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Wednesday against five alleged members of Scattered Spider, a community of young hackers suspected of breaking into dozens of U.S. companies to steal confidential information and cryptocurrency. Reuters reports: Martin Estrada, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, said the defendants conducted phishing attacks by sending bogus but real-looking mass […]
As Forbes reports, hijacking internet domains is nothing new, but a new Infoblox report reveals how the threat has evolved into an ongoing attack methodology. Forbes explains: The sitting duck cyber attacks are, Infoblox said, “easy to execute for actors, hard to detect for security teams.” To understand why you need to look at what vulnerability […]
DW reports that Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which is Germany’s highest civil court, has ruled that victims of a Facebook data breach could be entitled to compensation: The court in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe, Germany’s highest court for civil cases, said that the basic loss of control over data online was grounds for […]
Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global cryptocurrency exchange. His sentencing was announced by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to court documents, Lichtenstein, 35, hacked into Bitfinex’s network in […]
The MOVEit breach was one of the biggest breaches of 2023. Cl0p threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in the file transfer software and exfiltrated massive amounts of data from entities in all sectors. Now data from Amazon and almost three dozen other MOVEit victim entities is being leaked on BreachForums by a forum user calling themself […]
Majority of firms using generative AI experience related security incidents – even as it empowers security teams
How many times do we read about something new and think, “What can possibly go wrong, right?” Some new research by the Capgemini Research Institute found that 97% of organizations using generative AI were affected by data breaches or security concerns linked to generative AI, and most do not have an adequate budget to deal with […]