Sophos Recognized as Top Employer in British Columbia, Canada
Sophos has been named as one of the top employers in British Columbia, Canada for the ninth year running.
As seen on Resecurity’s blog, and where they are entitled to take a victory lap: Dubbed “BlackLock” (aka “El Dorado” or “Eldorado“), the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) outfit has existed since March 2024. In Q4 of last year, it increased its number of data leak posts by a staggering 1,425% quarter-on-quarter. According to independent reporting, a relatively new group has rapidly accelerated…
SuspectFile reports: A severe blow to Argentina’s public healthcare system has been dealt by the ransomware group Medusa, which, in recent days, through one of its affiliates, carried out a significant attack on the IT networks of the Hospital de Alta Complejidad El Cruce “Néstor Kirchner” (Hospital El Cruce), located in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires…
Tim Toole reports: A ransomware attack on Business Systems House (BSH), a Middle Eastern partner of payroll provider ADP, led to Broadcom employee data theft in September 2024. Data was leaked online in December, but Broadcom wasn’t informed until May 2025. The El Dorado ransomware group claimed responsibility for the breach, which occurred as Broadcom…
HHS OCR announced another settlement that is their ninth ransomware investigation and their third settlement as part of their Risk Analysis Initiative. This one stems from a breach by VPN Solutions that was previously reported on this site: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged the tactical similarities between the threat actors behind the RomCom RAT and a cluster that has been observed delivering a loader dubbed TransferLoader. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint is tracking the activity associated with TransferLoader to a group dubbed UNK_GreenSec and the RomCom RAT actors under the moniker TA829. The latter is…
Suzanne Smalley reports: More than 70 civil liberties advocacy groups, academics and legal experts are calling for an investigation into a “collapse in enforcement activity” by the United Kingdom’s principal data protection regulator. The group’s letter to Chi Onwurah, who chairs Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, contends that the Information Commissioner’s Office is plagued by deep……