Collaborate Disseminate
The Insider reports: In September 2024, the FBI published an indictment against a group of hackers working for GRU Unit 29155, the same military unit that became famous for poisoning Skripal in Salisbury. It has long been known that the GRU has hacker … Continue reading Fraudsters, murderers, students: who the GRU assembled a team of hacker provocateurs from and why it failed
The Privacy Guarantor has fined the Order of Psychologists of the Lombardy Region [Ordine degli psicologi della Lombardia] for 30 thousand euros for not having adopted adequate technical and organizational measures to guarantee data security. The Guar… Continue reading Order of Psychologists of Lombardy fined 30,000 € for inadequate data security protection and detection following ransomware attack
DataBreaches cannot read “Lower Merion School District” without recalling the “Webcamgate” scandal of 2010, when the district was discovered monitoring students remotely in their bedrooms on district-issued MacBooks. At the time… Continue reading Lower Merion School District says a data breach was caused by a computer glitch
Nelcia Charlemagne reports: Virgin Islands Lottery’s executive director, Raymond Williams, says the entity is now “90 percent back [to] functionality” after a cybersecurity incident that halted operations across the territory. The March ransomware atta… Continue reading After $1 Million Ransom Demand, Virgin Islands Lottery Restores Operations Without Paying Hackers
Here’s yet another insider threat report from a defense agency to end the week. This one is from India. NewsMobile reports: A 27-year-old junior defence contractor has been arrested for allegedly leaking restricted information on Indian Navy war… Continue reading Junior Defence Contractor Arrested For Leaking Indian Naval Secrets To Suspected Pakistani Spies
Jessica Lyons reports: A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names. The leaks include thousands of chat logs, persona… Continue reading Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump
From Hogan Lovells: The rapid development of data protection laws across the Asia-Pacific region indicates significant movement toward certain standards, albeit with notable local policy variations across multiple areas. Our Asia-Pacific Data, Privacy,… Continue reading Resource: HoganLovells Asia-Pacific Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity Guide 2025
Elise Takahama reports a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from a ransomware attack on Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle by the Hunters International gang: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has agreed to pay about $11.5 million to patients after a 20… Continue reading Class action settlement following ransomware attack will cost Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center about $52 million
In May 2022, DataBreaches reported that ambulance billing service Comstar LLC in Massachusetts was notifying an undisclosed number of people following a data security breach of their system detected on March 26, 2022. On May 26, 2022, they also notifie… Continue reading Comstar LLC agrees to corrective action plan and fine to settle HHS OCR charges
Alexander Martin reports: Australia became on Friday the first country in the world to require victims of ransomware attacks to declare to the government any extortion payments made on their behalf to cybercriminals. The law, initially proposed last ye… Continue reading Australian ransomware victims now must tell the government if they pay up