A cyberattack has disrupted operations at one of the world’s biggest boat sellers, the company said in regulatory filings this week. MarineMax, which calls itself the world’s largest recreational boat, yacht, and superyacht services company, filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday afternoon describing the incident, which began Sunday. “MarineMax determined… that […]
The LockBit ransomware gang said it was behind an attack on South Africa’s government workers pension fund last month, which has hampered the organization’s operations and disrupted pension payments. The South African Government Pensions Administration Agency (GPAA) manages the money within the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) — the largest pension fund in Africa — […]
Roku said it canceled unauthorized subscriptions and refunded more than 15,000 accounts after discovering what they called “suspicious activity.” The streaming TV giant — which reported $3.4 billion in revenue last year — said that from the end of December to the end of February, hackers used username and password combinations breached from other services […]
Financial services firm Paysign said it is investigating reports of a data breach involving consumer information after hackers tried to sell a database allegedly belonging to the company containing millions of records. “We are aware of the recent reports of an alleged data breach of Paysign consumer information. We are investigating the claim,” the company […]
Houser LLP, a U.S. law firm that specializes in serving high-profile financial institutions, said a system breach discovered in May 2023 exposed the personal data — possibly including sensitive information such as credit card numbers — of more than 325,000 people. In a regulatory filing posted Wednesday by Maine’s attorney general, the company said certain […]
Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said there was currently “no evidence of any breach” of its IT systems following a claim by a new cyber extortion group that it had stolen data and was prepared to sell it. The new group, calling itself Mogilevich, listed the DFA on Tuesday, claiming to offer 7GB of […]
U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group (UHG) said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised, likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected nation-state hackers but said it had no timeframe for when its systems would be […]
Feb 12, 2024NewsroomOperating System / Technology Microsoft said it’s introducing Sudo for Windows 11 as part of an early preview version to help users execute commands with administrator privileges. “Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session,” Microsoft Product Manager Jordi Adoumie said. “It […]
Popular remote monitoring and management software company AnyDesk said all versions of its tool obtained from “official sources” are safe to use following a cyberattack that caused days of outages and concern among users. The cyberattack affected servers in Spain and Portugal but nowhere else, AnyDesk said. The company confirmed last Friday that a four-day […]