Stephanie Nau reports: The Illinois Department of Human Services is notifying the public of a data security incident involving internal planning maps that were mistakenly made public from due to incorrect privacy settings. The maps were used for internal resource planning and created on a mapping website. The data included information related to some individuals in…
Cianan Brennan reports: Dublin’s Education and Training Board (CDETB) has been fined €125,000 by the Data Protection Commission after the personal details of 13,000 grant applicants were made available to “unauthorised persons”. The commission concluded after a six-year investigation that the ETB had breached GDPR in multiple ways by both failing to ensure sufficient security…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that’s targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads that aim to take them to phishing pages that are capable of harvesting their credentials. “These malicious ads, appearing on Google Search, are designed to steal the login information of users trying to access Microsoft’s advertising platform,” Jérôme Segura, senior
Davey Winder reports: There are two types of scumbag in the cybercrime world: those who pick on vulnerable individuals to perpetrate their fraud, and those who target healthcare in search of illicit financial gains. The latter are, thankfully, much rarer than the former. However, hospitals have been on the ransomware and hacking radar before now,…
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: 2025 trucking cybersecurity report, Bank of America discloses data breach, Silk Typhoon behind US Treasury hack. The post In Other News: Bank of America Warns of Data Breach, Trucking Cybersecurity, Treasury Hack Linked to Silk Typhoon appeared first on SecurityWeek.
If breaches or insider wrongdoing by DOGE employees are suspected, DOGE’s alleged failure to maintain and make transparent required records makes investigation nearly impossible or actually impossible. Mallory Culhane reports: The Department of Government Efficiency and top Trump administration officials are being sued over the agency’s alleged violations of federal record-keeping and transparency laws. DOGE…
An analysis by Chainalysis shows that ransomware payments dropped to $813 million in 2024, from $1.25 billion in 2023. The post Ransomware Payments Dropped to $813 Million in 2024 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
