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Attorney Jeff Drummond writes: News from the Cyberinsurance Market: Healthcare entities are finding that cybersecurity insurance is getting harder to find. Insurers are leaving the market, and prices are going up. Having cyberinsurance has always bee… Continue reading Is cyberinsurance for cyberattacks becoming harder to find and more costly?
Shashank Bhardwaj reports: Aurora, the bridging and scaling solution for Ethereum (ETH), announced on Tuesday that it had given a $6 million bug bounty to an ethical security hacker by the name of pwning.eth for discovering a critical vulnerability in … Continue reading Aurora pays $6 mn bug bounty to ethical hacker
Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg, along with Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon for the IRS – Criminal Investigation Washington D.C. Field Office, and Special Agent in Charge David Walker for the FBI – Tampa Div… Continue reading SSNDOB Marketplace, A Series Of Websites That Listed More Than 20 Million Social Security Numbers For Sale, Seized And Dismantled In International Operation
The education sector has always been a relatively easy target for cybercriminals. One group in particular — Pysa — earned a reputation for its ransomware attacks on schools. Despite analyses and alerts in March, 2021 by threat intel firms… Continue reading Pysa shuttered its leak site before it ever dumped data from more than half a dozen schools. Here’s what we know so far.
Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advi… Continue reading CISA Alert (AA22-152A): Karakurt Data Extortion Group
WASHINGTON – The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today that they have seized the internet domain name weleakinfo.to and two related domain names, ipstress.in and ovh-booter.com, following an international investigation into websites al… Continue reading WeLeakInfo.to and Related Domain Names Seized
WCVB reports: Hackers sponsored by the Iranian government tried to get into the computer systems of Boston Children’s Hospital last year; however, they were stopped with the help of the Boston Division of the FBI, officials announced Wednesday. […… Continue reading FBI thwarts cyberthreat against Boston Children’s Hospital by hackers sponsored by Iranian governmenttHackers sponsored by the Iranian government tried to get into the computer systems of Boston Children’s Hospital last year; however, they were stopped with the help of the Boston Division of the FBI, officials announced Wednesday.
James Bogan III of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP writes: Takeaway: In a prior article, we reported on the Second Circuit’s decision in McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Associates, LLC, 995 F.3d 295 (2d Cir. 2021), in which the court, ruling on a… Continue reading Data breach class actions: Southern District of New York dismisses action against health care providers for lack of standing
ITPro reports: Software developers and cyber security experts have discovered a new software supply chain hack that is attempting to harvest Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud credentials. The compromise of two popular open-source packages – Python’… Continue reading Open source packages with millions of installs hacked to harvest AWS credentials
Joseph Lazarrotti of JacksonLewis writes: On May 20, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission’s Team CTO and the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection published a blog post entitled, “Security Beyond Prevention: The Importance of Effective Breach Discl… Continue reading FTC Blog: “The FTC Act Creates a De Facto Breach Disclosure Requirement”