Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response 2,050 Organizations Affected After Data Stolen From Secure File-Sharing Software Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 25, 2023 Image: Shutterstock The count of organizations affected by the Clop ransomware group’s most recent mass targeting of secure file transfer software doubled last week. […]
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare HHS Report Lists APT41, APT43 and Lazarus Among Top Threat Groups Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 22, 2023 Image: HHS HC3 Chinese and North Korean cybercriminal groups continue to pose significant “unique threats” to the U.S. healthcare and public health sector, […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Government , Healthcare Researchers Say Breach Illustrates Why Schools Are Major Targets for Cybercriminals Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 21, 2023 Image: Lakeland Community College An Ohio community college is notifying 290,000 people of a data theft breach this spring that may have compromised their personal, financial […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo-Specific , Ransomware Australian Federal Police, Department of Home Affairs Reportedly Among the Victims Mihir Bagwe (MihirBagwe) • September 18, 2023 Image: Shutterstock An April ransomware attack against one of Australia’s largest law firms swept up the data of 65 Australian government agencies, the country’s newly appointed national […]
Cybercrime , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Info Stealer Continues to Succeed via Phishing, Exploiting Ancient Flaw in Office Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 14, 2023 Loki with a fishing net, as depicted on an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript (Image: public domain via Wikimedia) In Norse mythology, Loki is a cowardly […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Healthcare HHS: Group Seems to Favor Targeting Small & Midsized Entities that Lack MFA on VPNs Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 13, 2023 Akira’s data leak site Federal authorities are warning the health sector about threats posed by Akira, a ransomware-as-a-service group […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware UK Crime and Cybersecurity Agencies Urge ‘Holistic’ View of Ransomware Ecosystem Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 11, 2023 Image: Shutterstock Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Healthcare Pediatric Practice Says Attackers Promised to Delete Data Compromised in Incident Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 6, 2023 The personal and health information of nearly 130,000 patients, parents and employees was compromised in an August attack on Just Kids Dental in […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Healthcare FTC, HHS Warn Hospitals, Telehealth Firms of Privacy Violations With Tracker Use Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 5, 2023 Image: FTC, HHS OCR The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services have publicly named 130 hospitals and […]