The Office of Inadequate Security
Mark P. Henriques of Womble Bond Dickinson has a content-rich post for defense lawyers: Class actions arising from data breach represented the fastest growing segment of class action filings. In 2023, more than 2000 class actions were filed, more than triple the amount filed in 2022.1 These cases were filed in federal and state courts…
Ian Barker reports: Phishing remains one of the most significant cyber threats impacting organizations worldwide and a new report shows credential theft attacks surged dramatically in the second half of 2024, rising by 703 percent. The report from SlashNext shows that overall, email-based threats rose by 202 percent over the same period, with individual users receiving…
The hacker and forum owner known as “IntelBroker” announced that he and others breached Cisco systems and obtained source code and other valuable information. In a forum post where they offered “partial Cisco” data, they admit that a Cisco error had enabled them to access the data: In October 2024, Cisco accidentally left open their…
Abdulrahman H. Alamri and Lexie Mooney of Dragos write: The third quarter (July – September) of 2024 brought transformative shifts to the ransomware landscape, emphasizing its dynamic and continuously evolving nature. The ransomware threat ecosystem remained highly active in the third quarter, fueled by new groups, rebranding of existing entities, expansion of initial access broker…
Solomon Klappholz reports: A major data breach at password manager firm LastPass in 2022 is still causing mayhem two years later, with cyber criminals using stolen information to carry out further attacks. According to data collated by crypto investigator ZachXBT, hackers stole $12.38 million in cryptocurrency from LastPass users on 16 and 17 December. The attackers drained…
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Healthcare software as a service (SaaS) company Phreesia is notifying over 910,000 people that their personal and health data was exposed in a May breach of its subsidiary ConnectOnCall, acquired in October 2023. ConnectOnCall is a telehealth platform and after-hours on-call answering service with automated patient call tracking for healthcare providers. “On…