Although many ransomware gangs no longer encrypt victims and focus on exfiltration and extortion, some groups continue to encrypt. Anubis RaaS is one of them. SuspectFile reports that Anubis recently attacked Mid South Pulmonary & Sleep Specialists (MSPS) in Tennessee and was willing to answer some questions from SuspectFile. According to the spokesperson, initial access…
DataBreaches cannot read “Lower Merion School District” without recalling the “Webcamgate” scandal of 2010, when the district was discovered monitoring students remotely in their bedrooms on district-issued MacBooks. At the time, they initially denied any misuse of remote access that was part of a security feature. Now the district is back in local news in…
Loraine Centeno reports: McDonald’s just got a supersized reminder to beef up its digital security after its recruitment platform allegedly exposed the sensitive data of 64 million applicants. Security researchers Ian Carrol and Sam Curry, known for their work in vulnerability investigations and ethical hacking, recently revealed a major flaw in McDonald’s new McHire recruitment…
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, an update on the case involving an alleged dev for LockBit: NEWARK, N.J. – A dual Russian and Israeli national was extradited to the United States on charges that he was a developer of the LockBit ransomware group, United States Attorney John Giordano announced. In August,…
Geoffrey A. Fowler writes: If you’re one of the 15 million people who shared your DNA with 23andMe, it’s time to delete your data. The genetic information company, best known for its saliva test kits, announced Sunday that it is headed to bankruptcy court to sell its assets. And 23andMe’s financial distress prompted California Attorney General Rob…
HPE is investigating claims by the hacker IntelBroker, who is offering to sell source code and other data allegedly stolen from the tech giant. The post HPE Investigating Breach Claims After Hacker Offers to Sell Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Porokhnia Yana reports: Intelligence has obtained further evidence of Russian abduction of Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate. Cyber experts obtained this information as part of a large-scale cyber operation against the servers of the so-called “government of Crimea”. These resources contained documentation confirming the…
