Collaborate Disseminate
Waqas reports: A Ukrainian national accused of helping run one of the world’s most damaging ransomware operations, Conti, is now in US custody. After being extradited from Ireland, 43-year-old Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko made his first court appear… Continue reading Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Suspect Extradited to US from Ireland
Jim Dunton reports: The chief executive of the Legal Aid Agency has told MPs that the organisation is still working out the extent of a cyberattack that was uncovered back in the spring. Jane Harbottle told members of parliament’s Public Accounts Commi… Continue reading Legal Aid Agency chief admits difficulties understanding impact of cyberattack
Holly Bancroft reports: A Ministry of Defence official revealed confidential information by leaving a laptop open on a train in another Afghan data breach, The Independent can reveal, as new documents reveal a string of government blunders which have p… Continue reading Revealed: Afghan data breach after MoD official left laptop open on train
Cloud company Snowflake’s data breach litigation woes got worse as two bids to dismiss education and financial institutional plaintiffs from the case largely failed to convince a federal judge. The Los Angeles Unified School District was just one of th… Continue reading Snowflake Loses Two More Bids to Dismiss Data Breach Plaintiffs
A.J. Vicens reports: Hackers working for an unnamed nation-state breached networks at Ribbon Communications, a key U.S. telecommunications services company, and remained within the firm’s systems for nearly a year without being detected, a company spok… Continue reading US company with access to biggest telecom firms uncovers breach by nation-state hackers
Bill Toulas reports: The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warned today that hacktivists have breached critical infrastructure systems multiple times across the country, allowing them to modify industrial controls that could have led to dangerous cond… Continue reading Canada says hacktivists breached water and energy facilities
FX News Group reports: Taunton-based Luke Coleman, aged 30, has pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining and the subsequent disclosure of personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act, following a prosecution by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (F… Continue reading UK: FCA fines former employee of Virgin Media O2 for data protection breach
Peter Williams, 39, an Australian national, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today in connection with selling his employer’s trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker, the Justice Department announced today. Williams pleaded to two counts of t… Continue reading Former General Manager for U.S. Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Selling Stolen Trade Secrets to Russian Broker
Today’s episode of “No need to hack when it’s leaking” is brought to us by Neo Security. In the course of their research and scanning, they came across a 4 TB SQL backup. As Neo Security explains: An SQL Server BAK file is a co… Continue reading The 4TB time bomb: when EY’s cloud went public (and what it taught us)
Yan Luo of Covington and Burling writes: Over the past few months, Chinese regulators have taken steps to update the country’s cybersecurity framework, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI) safety and clarifying incident reporting obl… Continue reading China Amends Cybersecurity Law and Incident Reporting Regime to Address AI and Infrastructure Risks