Chad Van Alstin reports: Healthcare Interactive, a company that develops AI-based medical insurance benefit enrollment and billing solutions, confirmed last week that it experienced a data breach that involved personal data from customers being moved offsite by hackers. The exact number of impacted individuals was not revealed. However, the company said stolen data included names,…
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC4899 has been attributed to attacks targeting two different organizations by approaching their employees via LinkedIn and Telegram. “Under the guise of freelance opportunities for software development work, UNC4899 leveraged social engineering techniques to successfully convince the targeted employees to execute malicious Docker containers in their
Everyone has cybersecurity stories involving family members. Here’s a relatively common one. The conversation usually goes something like this: “The strangest thing happened to my streaming account. I got locked out of my account, so I had to change my password. When I logged back in, all my shows were gone. Everything was in Spanish…
Jen Easterly hopes CISA is allowed to continue its election-related work under new leadership despite “contentiousness” around that part of its mission. The post Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Says She Hopes It Keeps up Election Work Under Trump appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat hunters have detailed an ongoing campaign that leverages a malware loader called MintsLoader to distribute secondary payloads such as the StealC information stealer and a legitimate open-source network computing platform called BOINC. “MintsLoader is a PowerShell based malware loader that has been seen delivered via spam emails with a link to Kongtuke/ClickFix pages or…
A mobile ad fraud operation dubbed IconAds that consisted of 352 Android apps has been disrupted, according to a new report from HUMAN. The identified apps were designed to load out-of-context ads on a user’s screen and hide their icons from the device home screen launcher, making it harder for victims to remove them, per…
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: McDonald’s API hacking, Netflix fined nearly $5 million in Netherlands, experimental malware killing ICS process. The post In Other News: McDonald’s API Hacking, Netflix Fine, Malware Kills ICS Process appeared first on SecurityWeek.
