Collaborate Disseminate
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new ransomware gang known as Black Basta has quickly catapulted into operation this month, breaching at least twelve companies in just a few weeks. The first known Black Basta attacks occurred in the second week of April, as … Continue reading New Black Basta ransomware springs into action with a dozen breaches
New York State Education Department has addressed the Illuminate data breach in a notice on the state’s site that advises school districts that they must make their best effort to contact all students, including former students for whom they have… Continue reading Illuminate Education Breach Notice
Isaiah Poritz reports: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. won a preliminary injunction in California federal court against medical records company SureFile Filing Systems for attempting to sell patient data using Kaiser’s trademarks. Kaiser is likely t… Continue reading Kaiser Wins Trademark Injunction Against Patient Data Company
Zack Whittaker reports: Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a … Continue reading Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
From the Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) are issuing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight the cyber threat asso… Continue reading Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: TraderTraitor: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Targets Blockchain Companies
Britton White writes: After a university was recently hit with Ransomware, I decided to research the university’s domain name searching for any users who might have been hit with Redline Infostealer/Malware. To no surprise, I found many students had u… Continue reading Learning Opportunities from Ransomware and Redline Infostealer Events Inside America’s Universities
Ameya Paleja reports: Cyber actors such as the Lazarus Group and APT38, from North Korea, have been confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to be involved in the $600-million crypto-heist that took place last month, the investigation age… Continue reading North Korean hackers behind $600 million crypto heist – FBI; spying on South Korean chemical sector firms – Symantec
Jeff Lagasse reports: Industries are increasingly being sued by consumers for data breaches, but the sector with the biggest litigation increase is healthcare, according to new findings from the law firm BakerHostetler. In fact, healthcare comprises 23… Continue reading Patients increasingly suing hospitals over data breaches
Eduard Kovacs reports: Cybersecurity researchers specializing in healthcare IoT systems have discovered five serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack Aethon’s TUG autonomous mobile robots. The TUG robots are used by hundreds of ho… Continue reading ‘JekyllBot:5’ Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Hacking of Hospital Robots
Bill Toulas reports: A regional U.S. government agency compromised with LockBit ransomware had the threat actor in its network for at least five months before the payload was deployed, security researchers found. Logs retrieved from the compromised mac… Continue reading LockBit ransomware gang lurked in a U.S. gov network for months