In a Thursday surprise, ransomware gang Hunters International announced they are closing the project and are offering their past victims free decryptor keys if they need them. The Register reports: Ransomware gang Hunters International has shut up shop and offered decryption keys to all victims as a parting favor. Announcing the news on Thursday morning, […]
You may be seeing a lot of DocuSign-related emails in your inbox this month. Or Microsoft. Or other big names. And if you happen to be expecting something to sign or have accounts with these big firms, the phishing attempts can look very convincing. ITPro reports: Cyber criminals are increasingly using PDF attachments to impersonate […]
Comes less than two years after the ICC revealed a major breach in September 2023, later attributed to a cyber-espionage operation Computing reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed it is investigating a fresh and “sophisticated” cyberattack that targeted its systems last week, marking the second such incident in recent years. In March […]
Airline Routes & Ground Services reports: Qantas has confirmed a significant cyberattack affecting the personal data of up to six million customers, marking one of Australia’s most serious data breaches in recent years and delivering a fresh blow to the airline’s reputation. The breach, which targeted a third-party customer service platform used by a call […]
An important press release from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services was published yesterday.
Newsweek reports: An Iran-linked hacking group has threatened to release a batch of emails it said it has stolen from President Donald Trump‘s longtime aides, including adviser Roger Stone and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. Reuters reported Monday that a cyberattack group that hacked the president’s campaign in 2024 claimed it had roughly 100 gigabytes of […]
Supply-chain attacks are often a goldmine for cybercriminals. In the healthcare sector, revenue cycle management (RCM) firms process and store a great amount of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). DataBreaches.net reports that another RCM firm was the victim of an attack: Horizon Healthcare RCM (“Horizon”) in Indiana is the latest RCM to […]
Defending Against UNC3944: Cybercrime Hardening Guidance from the Frontlines UNC3944, which overlaps with public reporting on Scattered Spider, is a financially-motivated threat actor characterized by its persistent use of social engineering and brazen communications with victims. In early operations, UNC3944 largely targeted telecommunications-related organizations to support SIM swap operations. However, after shifting to ransomware and […]
The BBC reports: The death of one person has been linked to a ransomware attack on NHS blood services at London hospitals and GP surgeries last June. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust confirmed that one patient had “died unexpectedly” during the cyber attack on 3 June 2024, which disrupted more than 10,000 appointments. A […]
When French law enforcement announced the arrest of four individuals alleged to be part of ShinyHunters, they also noted that a fifth individual, a British national known as “IntelBroker,” was arrested in France in February and detained. Hours later, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Intelbroker, whose real […]
