A former NHS secretary has been fined by the data protection regulator after illegally accessing the medical records of over 150 people. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that a complaint was first lodged back in June 2019, after a patient raised concerns that their records had been improperly accessed by Loretta Alborghetti, from Redditch. […]
Financial software company MeridianLink confirmed that it is dealing with a cyberattack after the hackers behind the incident took extraordinary measures to pressure the company into paying a ransom. MeridianLink, which reported more than $76 million in revenue last quarter, provides tools to banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders and consumer reporting agencies in the United […]
Gamblers’ data compromised after casino giant Strendus fails to set password Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2023 Mexican online casino Strendus has exposed sensitive user data, including home addresses and the amounts of money they spent on gambling. Strendus, one of the biggest online casinos in Mexico has exposed sensitive user data, including home addresses and […]
Less than two months after a ransomware attack impacted St Helens Borough Council in northwest England, most services at the council are running again. Located between Liverpool and Manchester, the council — the local government authority in an area with about 180,000 residents — announced a “suspected ransomware incident” toward the end of August. It […]
Dragos says it has found no evidence of a data breach after a known ransomware group claimed to have hacked the industrial cybersecurity company’s systems through a third party. “Dragos is asked to reach out within 24 hours, or we will begin the publication of both the facts and the data of executive members. This […]
After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2023 After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. Cloudflare confirmed that a DDoS attack took […]
The decline in VC funding for cybersecurity startups might finally be reversing course after months of discouraging trend lines. Recently, Crunchbase reported that cybersecurity startups raised nearly $1.9 billion through 153 deals in Q3 — a 12% increase from the $1.7 billion raised across 181 deals in the previous quarter. There’s anecdotal evidence of a […]
Stanford University is investigating a cybersecurity incident within its Department of Public Safety after a ransomware gang claimed it attacked the school on Friday. A spokesperson for the university directed Recorded Future News to a statement published late on Friday afternoon explaining that it is in the process of figuring out the details of the […]
Hackers have earned roughly $350,000 in rewards after demonstrating successful exploits against a variety of devices on the second day of the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 competition. Just as on the first day of the hacking contest, NAS devices, printers, smart speakers, and mobile phones were hacked on Wednesday, with successful exploits also […]