Collaborate Disseminate
Back in 2016-2018 when threat actors known as thedarkoverlord (“TDO”) were hacking entities and attempting to extort their victims by sending them emails with details about their family members and threats of what would happen if the victim… Continue reading Idaho man who threatened his hacking victims appeals his sentence in Georgia
Angus Whitley reports: Qantas Airways Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Vanessa Hudson and her top leadership team were docked A$800,000 ($522,000) in pay for a cyberbreach that impacted millions of customers, as the airline attempts to show it’s taking a h… Continue reading Qantas CEO, top executives lose $522,000 in pay for major cyber breach
Today’s reminder of the insider threat, from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia: ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A U.S. Department of State (DOS) employee was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiring to collect … Continue reading Department of State employee sentenced for transmitting national defense information to suspected Chinese government agents
Jeffrey Burt reports: The ever-widening series of supply chain attacks on Salesforce instances linked to Salesloft’ Drift app has claimed a number of new victims in recent days, including Cloudflare, Palto Alto Networks, and Zscaler. Cybersecurity firm… Continue reading Salesloft Drift Breach Rolls Up Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Zscaler, and Others
Jeffrey Burt reports: The ever-widening series of supply chain attacks on Salesforce instances linked to Salesloft’ Drift app has claimed a number of new victims in recent days, including Cloudflare, Palto Alto Networks, and Zscaler. Cybersecurity firm… Continue reading Salesloft Drift Breach Rolls Up Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Zscaler, and Others
Ninfa Saavedra reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against PowerSchool, a California-based provider of cloud-based services for K-12 schools, after an unprecedented data breach exposed the sensitive personal identifying infor… Continue reading Texas sues PowerSchool over breach compromising info of over 880,000 students, teachers
Chris Vallance and Theo Leggett of the BBC report: A cyber-attack has “severely disrupted” Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicle production, including at its two main UK plants. The company, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, said it to… Continue reading Jaguar Land Rover production impacted by cyberattack; Scattered Spider/ShinyHunters claims responsibility
Nick Palmieri of Baker Botts writes: Healthcare providers wrestling with the legal fallout of cyber-attacks just received a fresh reminder from the District of Arizona: traditional tort and contract theories remain difficult to sustain after a breach, … Continue reading District of Arizona Clarifies Causes of Action Available for Breach of Health Data
Matthew Gault reports: An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets. Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around Augus… Continue reading Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists’ Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn’t Pay Up
Matt Kapko reports: Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko exemplifies the profile of a modern cybercriminal, yet, unlike many others who have faced strict prosecution for similar offenses, the Justice Department has granted him liberties rarely extended to s… Continue reading Prolific Russian ransomware operator living in California enjoys rare leniency awaiting trial