Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a Nigerian national, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering through business email compromise (BEC) schemes, resulting in millions of dollars in losses.
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 […]
A further multimillion-dollar distribution of funds from Western Union to victims of fraud perpetrated via its payment network has begun, following a previous payout of $365m. The new $40m tranche of money was forfeited by the Colorado-headquartered financial services giant to the Department of Justice (DoJ) to reimburse 25,000 victims in the US and abroad. […]
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 […]
Russian hacker Dariy Pankov has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and now faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, according to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Pankov, who was extradited from the Eastern European country of Georgia earlier this year, was charged with developing and selling a piece of malware […]
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 […]
Threat actors continued to exploit technical misconfigurations through various fraud schemes, according to a new report from Visa. These include the use of malvertising and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to cultivate compelling and effective phishing and social engineering campaigns, the utilization of emerging advanced language model (ALM) technologies, and the increased targeting of authentication […]
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 […]