Darragh Mc Donagh reports: There is no evidence that patients’ data was stolen during a second ransomware attack targeting Health Service Executive (HSE) systems earlier this year, the authority has said. Earlier this week, the HSE began offering compensation to victims of a cyberattack that caused widespread disruption in May 2021, costing the agency an estimated €102 million. It has now emerged that a second…
Over on TechDirt, Karl Bode writes: Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel, is like many dodgy data brokers. The company gleans vast troves of sensitive U.S. behavior and location cellphone data, then generally sells access to that data to a long line of folks. Including the U.S. government, which has increasingly turned to buying…
This is reportedly all resolved by now, but on April 25, Becker’s Hospital Review reported that dozens of hospitals affiliated with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems were experiencing IT outages after data storage linked to their Oracle Health EHRs was accidentally deleted: The hospitals have reverted to paper for patient records, with the issue expected…
This has not been a great week for hackers whose claims have been refuted. First, ScatteredLapsus$Hunters’ claim about Resecurity was refuted, and now claims by another threat actor that NordVPN has been hacked have also been refuted. Davey Winder reports on the false NordVPN claims: The hacker, using the name of 1011, claimed to have brute-forced a……
The North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign are spreading their tentacles on the npm ecosystem by publishing more malicious packages that deliver the BeaverTail malware, as well as a new remote access trojan (RAT) loader. “These latest samples employ hexadecimal string encoding to evade automated detection systems and manual code audits,…
Enterprises today are expected to have at least 6-8 detection tools, as detection is considered a standard investment and the first line of defense. Yet security leaders struggle to justify dedicating resources further down the alert lifecycle to their superiors. As a result, most organizations’ security investments are asymmetrical, robust detection tools paired with an…
The official site for RVTools has been hacked to serve a compromised installer for the popular VMware environment reporting utility. “Robware.net and RVTools.com are currently offline. We are working expeditiously to restore service and appreciate your patience,” the company said in a statement posted on its website. “Robware.net and RVTools.com are the only authorized and…
