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WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited (Wuhan XRZ), a Wuhan, China-based Ministry of State Security (MSS) front company that has s… Continue reading Treasury Sanctions China-Linked Hackers for Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Josh Hansen and Alfred Saikali of Shook, Hardy & Bacon write: The Florida legislature passed a bill that provides immunity to companies that suffer a data breach. The immunity is conditioned on the company: (1) complying with the notice requirement… Continue reading Florida Legislature Passes Data Breach Immunity Legislation
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: How might banning ransomware victims from paying a ransom to their attacker work in practice? As ransomware groups are causing massive damage and disruption and showing no signs of stopping, Ciaran Martin, the former head of… Continue reading Banning Ransom Payments: Calls Grow to ‘Figure Out’ Approach
March 5. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is aware that Change Healthcare – a unit of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) – was impacted by a cybersecurity incident in late February. HHS recognizes the impact this attack has had on health ca… Continue reading HHS Statement Regarding the Cyberattack on Change Healthcare
Three recent data breach disclosures involving patient data all exceeded HIPAA’s 60-day deadline to notify HHS and individuals. Yakima Valley Radiology A breach involving the Washington state radiology service was added to Karakurt’s leak s… Continue reading Three recent breach disclosures remind of us how seldom timely breach notification is enforced under HITECH
YLE News, STT report: Some patients from the Vastaamo psychotherapy centre had died by suicide after their patient records were stolen and used in extorition attempts, according to a lawyer representing victims. Legal arguments in the trial of Aleksant… Continue reading Vastaamo victims’ lawyer: Some took their own lives after patient record leak
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby report t… Continue reading Message to the Congress on Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern
Brian Krebs reports: The ransomware group LockBit told officials with Fulton County, Ga. they could expect to see their internal documents published online this morning unless the county paid a ransom demand. LockBit removed Fulton County’s listing fro… Continue reading Fulton County, Security Experts Call LockBit’s Bluff
February 27, 2024: SUMMARY Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomwar… Continue reading CISA Alert CodeAA23-353A: ALPHV BlackCat
Only five days after an international law enforcement effort seized LockBit’s leak sites, 34 servers, and 14,400 rogue email accounts used to support infrastructure and extortion, LockBit3.0 has reappeared with a new Tor site that looks like the … Continue reading As expected, LockBit is back already