Man Charged with Operating Online Marketplaces Selling Fraudulent Montana Driver’s Licenses and Other Identity Documents Used by Cybercriminals

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it revoked more than 200 certificates used by a threat actor it tracks as Vanilla Tempest to fraudulently sign malicious binaries in ransomware attacks. The certificates were “used in fake Teams setup files to deliver the Oyster backdoor and ultimately deploy Rhysida ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in…

It’s been a while since DataBreaches posted a story about unerased drives with tons of sensitive information being purchased at a flea market or auction, but here we are again, and this time in the Netherlands. Connor Jones reports: Robert Polet, a 62-year-old techie and apparent bargain hunter from Breda, a city in the southern…

How many times have we read that paying a threat actor’s extortion demands only encourages more financially motivated crime and doesn’t ensure that the data won’t be retained or re-sold or leaked? Those making that argument appear to be generally correct, but are there exceptions? For years now, DataBreaches has gone back and forth between…

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an $80,000 settlement with Elgon Information Systems (Elgon), a Massachusetts company that provides electronic medical record and billing support services to covered entities, under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule. OCR enforces the HIPAA Privacy,…

Wherever there’s been conflict in the world, propaganda has never been far away. Travel back in time to 515 BC and read the Behistun Inscription, an autobiography by Persian King Darius that discusses his rise to power. More recently, see how different newspapers report on wars, where it’s said, ‘The first casualty is the truth.’ …

Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers are investigating multiple incidents in an ongoing campaign targeting users of the WhatsApp messaging platform. The campaign, which started on September 29, 2025, is focused on Brazil and seeks to trick users into executing a malicious file attached to a self-spreading message received from a previously infected WhatsApp web session….