A busy few days for security teams There were data breaches galore in the US last week with various major incidents reported to state attorneys general, some in good time, some not.... [...]
Researchers discuss it in same breath as BlackLotus and MosaicRegressor A new vulnerability in UEFI firmware is threatening the security of a wide range of Intel chip families in a similar fashion to BlackLotus and others like it.... [...]
At least they didn’t get paid their $50M ransom demand The ransomware gang responsible for the chaos at London hospitals kept true to its word and released a trove of data that it claims belongs to pathology services provider Synnovis.... [...]
Downtime set to crash into next week The vendor behind the software on which nearly 15,000 car dealerships across the US rely says an ongoing "cyber incident" has forced it to pull systems offline for a second time in as many days.... [...]
Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence A fresh report into the Nobelium offensive cyber crew published by France's computer emergency response team (CERT-FR) highlights the group's latest tricks as the country prepares for a major election and to host this year's Olympic and Paralympic …
Cybercriminals claim they used a zero-day to breach pathology provider’s systems Interview The ransomware gang responsible for a healthcare crisis at London hospitals says it has no regrets about its cyberattack, which was entirely deliberate, it told The Register in an interview.... [...]
Railco goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards users about spilled card details and more US rail service Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at risk following a derailment of their individual account security.... [...]
Rail company goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards customers about spilled card details and more US rail company Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at risk following a derailment of their account security.... [...]
Billions of dollars made available but worst appears to be over The US government is winding down its financial support for healthcare providers originally introduced following the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare in February.... [...]
CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting the lot of it was published after the trust did …
Four years on and it's still paying for what California attorney general calls 'unacceptable' practice Months after escaping without a fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the luck of cloud software biz Blackbaud ran out when it came to reaching a settlement with California's attorney general.... [...]
Spanish plod make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy Spanish police arrested a person they allege to be the leader of the notorious cybercrime gang Scattered Spider as he boarded a private flight to Naples.... [...]
Health club chain headed for the spa on choose-a-password day Exclusive A cybersecurity researcher claims UK health club and gym chain Total Fitness bungled its data protection responsibilities by failing to lock down a database chock-full of members' personal data.... [...]
Russia recruits local residents to support battlefield goals Infrastructure that enabled two pro-Russia Ukraine residents to break into soldiers' devices and deploy spyware has been dismantled by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).... [...]
28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe An alleged cog in the Conti and LockBit ransomware machines is now in handcuffs after Ukrainian police raided his home this week.... [...]
Confidential patient information found by member of the public A data protection gaffe affecting the UK's NHS is being pinned on a medical student who placed too much trust in their bin bags.... [...]
The MOVEit breach and ransomware weren’t kind to the Feds last year The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by US federal agencies rose 9.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) in 2023 to a total of 32,211, per a new White House report, which also spilled the details on …
Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months The Netherlands' cybersecurity agency (NCSC) says the previously reported attack on the country's Ministry of Defense (MoD) was far more extensive than previously thought.... [...]
Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in Pure Storage is the latest company to confirm it's a victim of mounting Snowflake-related data breaches.... [...]
Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says BlackBerry-owned cybersecurity shop Cylance says the data allegedly belonging to it and being sold on a crime forum doesn't endanger customers, yet it won't say where the information was stored originally.... [...]
Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year's 23andMe data breach.... [...]
A far cry from the half-million claim that crims originally boasted Auction house to the wealthy Christie's says 45,798 people were affected by its recent cyberattack and resulting data theft.... [...]
Thousands of dodgy SMS messages bypassed network filters in UK-first case, it is claimed British police have arrested two individuals following an investigation into a suspected illegal homebrew phone mast used in SMS-based phishing campaigns.... [...]
Thousands of dodgy SMSes bypassed network filters in UK-first case, it is claimed British police have arrested two individuals following an investigation into an SMS-based phishing campaign using some kind of homebrew hardware.... [...]
Company says just names and SSNs affected, watering down RansomHub’s claims Frontier Communications has confirmed more than 750,000 individuals were affected in an April cyberattack on its systems, according to a regulatory filing.... [...]