Dec 05, 2023NewsroomEmail Security / Vulnerability Microsoft on Monday said it detected Kremlin-backed nation-state activity exploiting a critical security flaw in its Outlook email service to gain unauthorized access to victims’ accounts within Exchange servers. The tech giant attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it called Forest Blizzard (formerly Strontium), which is also widely […]
While MGM Resorts International CFO Jonathan Halkyard said Tuesday that business was largely back to normal roughly a month after its September cyberattack, he also doesn’t expect a related insurance matter to be resolved until sometime next year. “We will have a business interruption claim … which should be resolved sometime in 2024,” Halkyard said […]
CAIRO, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Gulf Air said its data was breached on Friday but its operations and vital systems were not affected, Bahrain’s news agency BNA reported on Saturday. The agency quoted the company as saying that “as a result of this illegal breach some information from the company’s email system and customers’ database […]
Vanderbilt University Medical Center said it is investigating a cybersecurity incident that led to the compromise of a database. VUMC runs seven hospitals and multiple healthcare facilities across Nashville, Tennessee — serving more than three million patients each year. The organization is one of the largest employers in the state with 40,000 employees and has […]
Cryptocurrency trading and investment firm Kronos Research said $26 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from its systems following a cyberattack. The company said on Saturday that it experienced “unauthorized access” to some of its application programming interface (API) keys, forcing it to pause trading and begin an investigation. By Sunday, the company confirmed that […]
The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it wants to require a prison communications provider to improve its security practices and incident reporting policies after the company failed to protect sensitive information about “hundreds of thousands” of users and did not notify all victims of the breach. The draft complaint and proposed order against Virginia-based […]
Cybersecurity giant SentinelOne said it is acquiring advisory firm Krebs Stamos Group and creating a new entity called PinnacleOne Strategic Advisory Group. Founded in 2021 by Christopher Krebs — the first director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — and former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, the advisory firm provided cybersecurity consulting […]
MGM Resorts International said it does not expect any further operational disruptions related to a massive September cyberattack. The company, which operates more than 30 casino hotels across the globe, disclosed a social-engineering attack that disrupted casino operations, card payments and other facilities at some of its most iconic properties in Las Vegas. MGM Resorts […]
The government council for Scotland’s Western Isles said it is dealing with an IT outage that forced it to provide temporary phone numbers for services. The Comhairle nan Eilean Siar — which governs the more than 470,000 people living on the chain of islands on Scotland’s western coast — said access to the IT system […]