Cybernews reports: Microsoft is urging Outlook users to patch and update their systems to mitigate a new threat from Russia. Hackers associated with the Kremlin’s military intelligence agency GRU are exploiting the vulnerability to access victim’s emails. Microsoft warned that a nation-state actor tracked as Forest Blizzard is actively exploiting a vulnerability to provide secret, […]
If there’s anything the past few years should have taught businesses, it is that if you think you can just wait a month or a few months to patch vulnerabilities when a patch is released, expect to hacked by threat actors who are already searching for businesses that haven’t patched. In this week’s example, Bleeping […]
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CTV reports: A group of southwestern Ontario hospitals is facing a potential $480-million class action lawsuit after at least 270,000 patients in the region had their data breached and reportedly sold by hackers on the dark web. The breach, first detected on Oct. 23, targeted Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace […]
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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 […]
On November 28, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued a press release about a settlement stemming from a 2019 data breach: The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) today announced that First American Title Insurance Company (First American) will pay a $1 million penalty to New York State for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
