For the “No need to hack when it’s leaking” and the “our government is our insider threat” files, Chiara Eisner of NPR reports: Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald…
John Beauge reports: The man accused of downloading protected information of more than 1.2 million Geisinger Health System patients in 2023 will defend himself at his criminal trial. U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann granted the motion of Max Vance to proceed pro se but assigned assistant public defender Gerald A. Lord as standby…
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman report: The possibility that data could be inadvertently exposed in a misconfigured or otherwise unsecured database is a longtime privacy nightmare that has been difficult to fully address. But the new discovery of a massive trove of 184 million records—including Apple, Facebook, and Google logins and credentials for accounts connected to multiple governments—underscores the risks…
In May 2022, DataBreaches reported that ambulance billing service Comstar LLC in Massachusetts was notifying an undisclosed number of people following a data security breach of their system detected on March 26, 2022. On May 26, 2022, they also notified HHS of the incident, reporting that 68,957 patients were affected. Today, HHS OCR announced that…
An RA World ransomware attack in November 2024 targeting an unnamed Asian software and services company involved the use of a malicious tool exclusively used by China-based cyber espionage groups, raising the possibility that the threat actor may be moonlighting as a ransomware player in an individual capacity. “During the attack in late 2024, the…
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have accused a trio of allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies with BlackCat (aka ALPHV) ransomware between May and November 2023 and extorting them. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, Kevin Tyler Martin, and an unnamed co–conspirator (aka “Co-Conspirator 1”) based in Florida, all U.S. nationals, are said to have used…
A new investigation has unearthed nearly 200 unique command-and-control (C2) domains associated with a malware called Raspberry Robin. “Raspberry Robin (also known as Roshtyak or Storm-0856) is a complex and evolving threat actor that provides initial access broker (IAB) services to numerous criminal groups, many of which have connections to Russia,” Silent Push said in…
