Collaborate Disseminate
Aimee Ortiz reports: The personal and private information of possibly hundreds of thousands of people who applied for government assistance in Rhode Island could be in the hands of hackers after a huge cyberattack, state officials said on Friday. The c… Continue reading Rhode Island Residents’ Data Breached in Large Cyberattack; Data May Be Leaked Soon
Jonathan Wheatley reports: Krispy Kreme said a cyber security attack has disrupted its online operations in the part of the US, as the doughnut maker warned it would have a material impact on its business. The US company said on Wednesday that it had b… Continue reading Hackers take a bite out of Krispy Kreme
Carly Page reports: Security researchers are warning that hackers are actively exploiting another high-risk vulnerability in a popular file transfer technology to launch mass hacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50623, affects software develop… Continue reading Hackers are exploiting a flaw in popular file-transfer tools to launch mass hacks, again
State Special Communications / Yelyzaveta Kovtun reports: Hacker group UAC-0185 attempted to attack Ukrainian defense enterprises, as well as the Security and Defense Forces. Hackers used phishing emails for this. As reported in the State Intelligence … Continue reading Cyberwar: Hackers tried to attack UA defense enterprises; UA hits Gazprombank with DDoS
KillSec3 is a ransomware group, but is it really encrypting its victims these days? Recent data suggests that its affiliate(s) may be trying to extort victims using data that has already been publicly leaked. The following was researched and written by… Continue reading Is KillSec3 Trying to Extort Victims Using Publicly Leaked Data?
On January 9, 2024, DataBreaches reported that French national Sébastien Raoult had been sentenced in a Seattle federal court, but might be out in 11 months. As a suspected member of ShinyHunters, Raoult (aka “Sezyo Kaizen”) had been extra… Continue reading Alleged ShinyHunters member returned to France after prison in the U.S., now facing French charges
Not all monetary penalties are for breaches affecting large numbers of patients. In this case, HHS imposed a penalty on an entity that had breaches in both 2017 and 2020. DataBreaches notes that the 2017 incident affected 3,370 patients, and the 2020 i… Continue reading HHS OCR Imposes a $548,265 Penalty Against Children’s Hospital Colorado for HIPAA Violations
Balaji N reports: Notorious ransomware group Brain Cipher has claimed to have breached Deloitte UK, allegedly exfiltrating over 1 terabyte of sensitive data from the professional services giant. Brain Cipher is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2… Continue reading Deloitte Hacked – Brain Cipher Ransomware Group Allegedly Stolen 1 TB of Data
Bloomberg Law reports that an accused teenage hacker who was arrested last month in California is suspected of being a member of Scattered Spider, according to several people familiar with the matter. Remington Goy Ogletree (“remi”) was arr… Continue reading Scattered Spider Hacking Gang Arrests Mount With Teen
Kevin Collier reports: Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign h… Continue reading U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack