Collaborate Disseminate
Katie Palmer reports: Odds are, you’ve gotten at least one of the unnerving letters in your mailbox this year: “We’re writing to inform you of a cybersecurity incident,” it might start. It’s the standard notice many health care organizations are requir… Continue reading Health data breaches hit an all-time high in 2023
Joe Tidy reports: An 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who has autism, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$. The gang… Continue reading Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker Arion Kurtaj sentenced to secure hospital for indefinite period
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Google Chrome has released an emergency security fix for a zero-day flaw that has been exploited in the wild. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7024, affects the desktop versions of the browser on Mac, Linux and Windows. … Continue reading Google discovers another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild
AlphV wasn’t the only group experiencing some disruption this week In August, “The Five Families” announced the collaboration of ThreatSec, SiegedSec, Stormous, BlackForums (now BlackSec), and GhostSec: A group created to establish be… Continue reading The Five Families disrupted after SiegedSec hacked; SiegedSec thrown out, Blog Hijacked
In response to the takedown notice on their original leak site and other damage done to their operations as described in the DOJ press release and warrant application that was unsealed today, AlphV posted this: As you all know, the FBI got the keys to … Continue reading AlphV reacts to law enforcement action by allowing affiliates to attack hospitals, critical infrastructure
The timeline from their notification to consumers tells the sad story: Notice of Data Security Incident We are notifying you of a recent data security incident involving your personal information. This notice explains the incident, steps Xfinity has ta… Continue reading Comcast Cable Communications notifies 35,879,455 consumers affected by Citrix incident
Ishaan Negi reports: It has emerged that the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) data bank contained over 81 crore Indians’ personal information, a startling discovery that shocked the whole country. The breach, which was uncovered by central i… Continue reading Four Held in ICMR Data Leak Case ISHAAN NEGI
In mid-November, DataBreaches reported that AlphV threat actors had added MeridianLink to their leak site. When their victim wouldn’t pay them, AlphV (aka “BlackCat”) filed a complaint with the Securities & Exchange Commission al… Continue reading If at first you don’t succeed, screw it up again?
Attacks on the medical sector continue. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center This week, the group known as Hunters International claimed responsibility for an attack on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Washington. Yesterday, they dumped data from an atta… Continue reading Troubling attacks on medical sector continue: cancer center’s data leaked, specialty infusion pharmacies locked?
On December 8, DataBreaches reported that Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center had been the victim of a ransomware attack and that the then-unnamed threat actors were trying to extort patients directly. Today we learned that the threat actors are Hunters Inte… Continue reading Update: Fred Hutch Cancer Center attack claimed by Hunters International