A threat actor with suspected ties to Russian nation-state hackers has listed thousands of IoT devices as proxy networks within minutes of their initial compromise. A campaign that began in 2020 has so far infected 20,000 IoT devices, according to a new report by Trend Micro.
A New York state court has approved a preliminary $1.5 million settlement of a consolidated proposed class action lawsuit against One Brooklyn Health System following a November 2022 cyberattack that involved theft of sensitive health data belonging to more than 235,000 people.
This week, Researchers say Fortinet didn't fully patch FortiJump, "Jinn Ransomware" was a setup, Microsoft Patch Tuesday and a Moody's warning over at-risk sectors. Also, a debt servicing firm breach, a DemandScience breach and a malicious tool targeting GitHub users.
The United States will support a controversial cybercrime convention initially proposed by Russia that is currently making its way through the United Nations, officials told reporters, while seeking out human rights assurances from supporting member nations.
A federal court has finalized an $8 million settlement in a consolidated proposed class action lawsuit against law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe involving a hack that affected several clients and more than 638,000 individuals. It is one of several law firms facing similar data breach problems.
The United States could see an ever-increasing level of global cybersecurity threats as former President Donald Trump returns to office, experts told Information Security Media Group, with foreign adversaries poised to potentially exploit the politically charged transition period.
Federal authorities are warning the healthcare sector of an array of cyberthreats - including Scattered Spider hacks, living-off-the-land attacks, and bad actors looking to exploit weaknesses such as F5 misconfigurations and also so-called "Miracle Exploit" flaws in some Oracle software.
This week, Chinese spying, Italian hacking scandal, an FBI warning and Okta fixed a bug. Google mandated MFA, zero days in PTZOptics and a Mexican airport didn't pay ransom. Cybercriminals demanded baguettes, breach lettersin Ohio and Germany will shield white hats. The Italian DPA rebuked a bank.
A hacking incident at Thompson Coburn, a national law firm based in Missouri, has affected an unspecified number of patients of a healthcare sector client, Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico. But a big unanswered question is whether other clients were affected.
Microsoft's latest Digital Defense Report exposed an increasingly complex cyber battlefield in which nation-state actors team up with cybercriminals to launch sophisticated attacks, while organizations continue to struggle to defend against these evolving threats.
Canadian authorities arrested a suspected extortionist tied to the hacking theft of terabytes of data from clients of cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake. Charges against the suspect, Alexander Moucka, aka Connor Moucka, have yet to be publicly detailed.
A small community hospital and its nursing home in rural Georgia have resorted to paper charts and other manual process for patient care as they deal with a ransomware attack discovered Saturday that knocked its electronic health records and other IT systems offline.
Australia's Western Sydney University said hackers breached its student management system and data warehouse to steal students' demographic and enrollment information in the third data theft incident of 2024. The hacker gained unauthorized access by compromising an IT account.
This week: S&P said poor material vulnerability remediaton can be a material risk factor, OnePoint in the United States and French ISP Free suffered data breaches, a Russian court sentenced REvil members, Five Eyes published security guidelines for small businesses.
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