Nineteen Sophos Women Recognized by CRN’s Women of the Channel

William C. Gendron reports: If you received notice that your personal information was involved in the Cencora data security incident, or believe your information was affected, you may be eligible to claim up to $5,000 or a cash payment from a class action settlement. Cencora Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to resolve a class action…

In May, 2024, the threat actors known as BianLian added the Center for Digestive Health in Florida to their dark web leak site. In June, they leaked what they claimed was 2.2 TB of files that they described as: A physical and medical history examination. Accounting, budget, financial data. Contract data and NDA’s. Accidents. Files…

A team of security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum has demonstrated two new side-channel attacks targeting Apple silicon that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from web browsers like Safari and Google Chrome. The attacks have been codenamed Data Speculation Attacks via Load Address Prediction on Apple Silicon (SLAP)…

Google on Thursday said it’s rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps to report extortion attempts made by threat actors who post inauthentic bad reviews on the platform and demand ransoms to remove the negative comments. The approach is designed to tackle a common practice called review bombing, where online…

DataBreaches should no longer be surprised to see threat actors claim to have hundreds of GB of files from medical entities, but it’s still concerning that entities can have so much data accessed and exfiltrated and yet not detect the attack. For today’s example, we point to Physicians Medical Billing, which was added to LockBit3.0’s…

Introduction: Steal It Today, Break It in a Decade Digital evolution is unstoppable, and though the pace may vary, things tend to fall into place sooner rather than later. That, of course, applies to adversaries as well. The rise of ransomware and cyber extortion generated funding for a complex and highly professional criminal ecosystem. The…