Data Breach News, Finance, Legal News, News
May 23, 2024
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SEC Charges Intercontinental Exchange and Nine Affiliates Including NYSE with Failing to Inform the Commission of Cyberattack

A press release from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): Washington D.C., May 22, 2024 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that The Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to settle charges that it caused the failure of nine wholly-owned subsidiaries, including the New York Stock Exchange, to […]

Healthcare, News
May 21, 2024
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ARPA-H announces program to enhance and automate cybersecurity for health care facilities

The government is investing in helping to secure hospitals from ransomware attacks: Safeguarding protected health information is a top priority for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). OCR is sharing the following announcement of Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) on the launch of Universal PatchinG and Remediation […]

Legal News, News
May 17, 2024
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SEC Adopts Rule Amendments to Regulation S-P to Enhance Protection of Customer Information

The following is a press release from the Securities and Exchange Commission: Washington D.C., May 16, 2024 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the adoption of amendments to Regulation S-P to modernize and enhance the rules that govern the treatment of consumers’ nonpublic personal information by certain financial institutions. The amendments update the […]

Data Breach News, News
May 17, 2024
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Hacking forum taken down by law enforcement — again.

BreachForums, a popular hacking forum where users can sell, leak, or share stolen data or information, was seized this week by the FBI, DOJ, and international partners. Because none of the governments have issued any press releases or statements yet, there is much that has yet to be confirmed or disconfirmed, but on Wednesday, a […]

Data Breach News, Europe, News
May 13, 2024
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Europol confirms web portal breach, says no operational data stolen

Europol appears to have confirmed a breach first claimed by the threat actor known as IntelBroker, a moderator on BreachForums. IntelBroker’s listing, which was subsequently marked as “SOLD,” claimed to have breached Europol in May of this year, resulting in the exposure of “For Official Use Only” (FOUO) and classified data. The compromised data allegedly […]

Data Breach News, Finance, Insurance News, News
May 08, 2024
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Scattered Spider Hackers Now Targeting Financial Sector

Threat actors known as Scattered Spider are reportedly turning their attention to the financial sector, hitting banks and insurance groups. Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions, which has been tracking the group, reports they have targeted 29 companies since April 20. Scattered Spider is the group that was previously linked to disrupting casinos and hotels such as MGM […]

Data Breach News, Legal News, Malware Ransomware, News
May 07, 2024
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U.S. Charges Russian National with Developing and Operating LockBit Ransomware

Alleged LockBit Developer Created and Operated Most Prolific Ransomware Variant Under Aliases “LockBit” and “LockBitSupp”; U.S State Department Offers Reward Up to $10M; U.S. Department of Treasury Designates LockBit Administrator for Sanctions The U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges today against a Russian national for his alleged role as the creator, developer, and administrator of the […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News, Vendor News
May 04, 2024
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ZircoDATA hack exposes more than 60,000, including victims of family violence, sex assault

Another vendor hack compromises sensitive information An attack on a documents storage service has resulted in the leak of sensitive information of victims of family violence and sexual assault who had been treated at Monash Health, the public health service in Victoria. The attack also compromised the personal information of current and former students at […]

Data Breach News, Legal News, News
May 04, 2024
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Former Cybersecurity Consultant Arrested For $1.5 Million Extortion Scheme Against IT Company

A reminder to carefully vet contractors and to terminate access promptly when their contract ends Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that VINCENT CANNADY was arrested in connection with his scheme to extort a publicly traded information technology infrastructure services provider of […]