Collaborate Disseminate
From Europol, today: The illegal marketplace ‘RaidForums’ has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of Operation TOURNIQUET, a complex law enforcement effort coordinated by Europol to support independent investig… Continue reading RaidForums seized in Operation TOURNIQUET; forum’s administrator and two accomplices arrested
Andy Greenberg reports: Early one fall morning in 2017, in a middle-class suburb on the outskirts of Atlanta, Chris Janczewski stood alone inside the doorway of a home he had not been invited to enter. Moments earlier, armed Homeland Security Investiga… Continue reading Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Chris Bennington of Epstein Becker Green writes, in part: The HITECH Act requires OCR to issue annual reports to Congress of HIPAA breaches and complaints received by OCR during the calendar year. For 2020, OCR reported that it received 656 notificatio… Continue reading HHS OCR Issues Annual HIPAA Reports to Congress
Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacking group used the Conti’s leaked ransomware source code to create their own ransomware to use in cyberattacks against Russian organizations. […] However, the tables have now turned, with a hacking group known… Continue reading Hackers use Conti’s leaked ransomware to attack Russian companies
A whitepaper from the HHS Cybersecurity Program. April 7, 2022 Available online at https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/lapsus-okta-health-sector-tlpwhite.pdf (26 pp, pdf) Continue reading Lapsus$, Okta and the Health Sector
Tom Burt , the Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust at Microsoft writes: Today, we’re sharing more about cyberattacks we’ve seen from a Russian nation-state actor targeting Ukraine and steps we’ve taken to disrupt it. We recently obs… Continue reading Microsoft on disrupting cyberattacks targeting Ukraine; Facebook on countering Ghostwriter’s attempts
The following is a snapshot of recent attacks on U.S. healthcare entities by ransomware teams. #1 First Choice Community Healthcare – Hive Hive threat actors have never sworn off attacking the healthcare sector. In addition to claiming that they … Continue reading Five ransomware groups, five victims… will it ever ease up?
Brian O’Donovan reports: Bank of Ireland has been fined €463,000 by the Data Protection Commission for data breaches affecting more than 50,000 customers. It follows an inquiry into 22 personal data breach notifications that Bank of Ireland made … Continue reading Bank of Ireland fined €463,000 for data breaches
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from the public on two requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health… Continue reading ANNOUNCE: HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Seeks Public Comment on Recognized Security Practices and Sharing Civil Money Penalties and Monetary Settlements Under the HITECH Act
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The U.S. government announced on Wednesday that it had disrupted a botnet controlled by Russian government hackers before it could be used to launch cyberattacks. In a press release, the Department of Justice anno… Continue reading US Government Disrupts Botnet Controlled by Russian Government Hackers