As an article in DarkReading highlights, it’s tempting to compare the incident responses by MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment to their recent cyberattacks because both are the same kind of entity and both were victims of the same threat actors (Scattered Spider/AlphV). But: Caesars quickly negotiated with the cyberattackers, and handed over a $15 million ransom payout, which […]
T-Mobile has had so many data breaches over the years that it’s somewhat understandable that people may rush to assume that something is a breach of their system when it was not. This week, we heard of two situations like that. The first involved customers reporting that after they logged in to T-Mobile’s app, they […]
When New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with Marymount Manhattan College stemming from a data breach in 2021, some people discussing the case online were surprised that a state could go after a non-profit college that way, and they wondered if the state could get that kind of settlement with a […]
Reuters reports: The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday its computer system had been hacked, a breach at one of the world’s most high-profile international institutions and one that handles highly sensitive information about war crimes. The ICC said it had detected unusual activity on its computer network at the end of last week, […]
MGM Resorts International could be losing between $4.2 million and $8.4 million in daily revenue and around $1 million in cash flow every day it’s under a cyberattack, a gaming industry analyst said in a Sunday report to investors. David Katz, an equity analyst with New York-based Jefferies Group, in a weekly report on gaming, […]
It’s not unusual for ransomware groups to comment on a victim’s incident response in a negative way. Nor is it unusual for these groups to carefully monitor media coverage. It is somewhat unusual, though, for a major group to get so angry at researchers or news outlets that they actually call them all out by […]
BianLian, previously known as a ransomware gang but more recently known for not bothering with encryption but just hacking and exfiltrating data, has reportedly attacked Save the Children, a well-known non-profit. While BianLian did not name the charity (they obfuscate their victims’ names while they are still hoping to get paid), their description of the […]
Hotel and casino operator MGM Resorts is dealing with a cyberattack that has somewhat sent it back into the digital dark ages at multiple properties and locations. On September 11, MGM Resorts posted a statement on its Twitter account confirming that it was dealing with what it described as a cybersecurity incident. They did not […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement of potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules with LA Care, the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan that provides health care benefits and coverage through state, federal, and commercial programs. OCR enforces the HIPAA […]
The MOVEit data breach, discussed in an earlier post, continues to make headlines. As SDX reports: Orchestrated by ransomware gang CL0P exploiting a zero-day vulnerability, it is now considered one of the largest hacks of 2023 — and potentially in recent history. To date, it is known to have impacted more than 1,150 organizations and nearly 56 million individuals, […]
