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 […]
Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service outages preventing trucking companies from managing their fleets.
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 […]
Vendor Risk Management Series B Funding Will Allow Certa to Further Automate Compliance, Procurement Tasks Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • September 8, 2023 Jag Lamba, founder and CEO, Certa (Image: Certa) A third-party management platform founded by a longtime McKinsey consultant closed a funding round to bring further automation to compliance and procurement tasks. […]
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 […]
Exposure management solutions provider Tenable announced on Thursday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli cloud security startup Ermetic for roughly $240 million in cash and $25 million in restricted stock and restricted stock units (RSUs). Rumors of the acquisition emerged a few days ago, putting the deal at an estimated […]
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 […]