Collaborate Disseminate
When criminals store or host data on U.S. servers, victims may get lucky. This is one of those situations. Matthew Sockol reports that data from the town of Apex in North Carolina had been stolen in an attempted ransomware attack in July 2024. The data… Continue reading Apex recovers stolen personal data after about 22K impacted in cyberattack: Town
From the Garante’s press release, below, it sounds like the banking group experienced an insider-wrongdoing breach in which an employee improperly accessed 3,573 customer accounts over a period of two years. Data breach: The Italian Data Protect… Continue reading Italy’s data protection regulator fined Intesa Sanpaolo €31.8 million over insider data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: American toy-making giant Hasbro has confirmed a cyberattack, and the company says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved. The owner of properties including Transformers, Peppa Pig, and Dungeons & Dragon… Continue reading Toymaker Hasbro says it may take weeks to recover from cyberattack
DysruptionHub reports: North Attleboro Public Schools in Massachusetts said Wednesday it is responding to unauthorized activity on its network after what the superintendent described as a cybersecurity incident over the past several days. The Sun Chron… Continue reading North Attleboro, Massachusetts, schools hit by suspected cyberattack
Matt Binder reports that Mac users have a new malware threat to be on the watch out for. According to a new report by Malwarebytes, Infiniti Stealer is a new malware attack targeting Mac users that utilizes social engineering tactics and, once the payl… Continue reading Everything you need to know about the malware stealing data from Mac users
Abdelaziz Fathi reports: Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said the $285 million exploit of Solana-based Drift Protocol shows multiple indicators associated with North Korea’s state-sponsored hacking groups. The firm’s assessment is based on onchain b… Continue reading $285 Million Drift Protocol Exploit Shows Signs of North Korea-Linked Hackers
Tim Starks and Derek B. Johnson report: A hacker briefly delivered malware this week through a popular open-source project for software developers that has an estimated 100 million weekly downloads, raising the possibility of compromises spreading wide… Continue reading Attack on axios software developer tool threatens widespread compromises
Märten Hallismaa reports: A person who underwent X-ray imaging at West Tallinn Central Hospital (LTKH) was sent home with a USB drive that also contained the personal and health data of other patients. ERR has received information about a person who we… Continue reading Estonian hospital sends patient home with other peoples’ health data
Jan Vermeulen reports: Statistics South Africa has become the latest government entity to fall victim to a ransomware attack by the emerging cybercrime group known as XP95. The threat actors claim to have successfully breached the agency responsible fo… Continue reading South African government agency and Spanish psychological software provider victims of cyberattacks by XP95
Did you sign up for the new White House app? Don’t use it until you read this, because it puts your privacy and data security at risk. Patrick Quirk takes an impressive technical piece and distills it for those of us who are not developers or cod… Continue reading Did you sign up for the new White House app? Don’t use it until you read this!