The National Herald reports: As hackers – many sponsored by Russia and China and authoritarian governments around the world – have stepped up cyber attacks on municipal services in a number of countries, Thessaloniki‘s agencies were shut down over an electronic intrusion. That happened July 23, with Deputy Mayor of Business Planning, e-Government and Migration…
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Spammer floods the Babuk ransomware gang’s forum with gay porn GIFs
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A spammer has flooded the forum of the Babuk ransomware group with gay orgy porn GIFs after the Babuk gang failed to pay a $5,000 ransom demand the threat actor made on Friday. While initially, the Babuk gang derided the extortion attempt and deleted the spammer’s initial post, hundreds of forum topics…
Clubhouse denies data breach
Megha Gupta reports: On July 23, a hacker group claimed that they have got access to over 3.8 billion phone numbers from Clubhouse servers. The claim posted on a hackers’ forum alleging the leak states that the list of numbers contains cellphone, fixed, private, and professional numbers. The information about the claim was shared on…
PHOBOS ransomware infection at the Clinical Hospital No.1 CF Witting in Bucharest
The following is all machine translation of a notice from CERT-RO (Romania) SRI, in cooperation with CERT-RO and the Clinical Hospital No.1 CF Witting in Bucharest, recently investigated a cyber attack with the ransomware application PHOBOS, which targeted the entity’s servers in the field of health. Following the encryption of the data, the attackers requested…
Mobile County Commission notifies employees of data breach; threat actors dump more data
WKRG reports an update to a ransomware attack on Mobile County that was previously reported in June after SuspectFile broke the story of Grief’s attack and claims. As previously addressed in statements published by Mobile-area media, Mobile County recently discovered suspicious activity related to some of its computer systems. We immediately shut down and launched…
Convenience Store Chain Can’t Shield Investigative Report on Data Breach From Discovery, Judge Rules
We often hear of firms having their counsel running incident response and contracting of forensics, etc., so that any reports would be protected by work product doctrine as well as attorney-client privilege. But if the attorney doesn’t word the contract carefully, any report may not be covered by the doctrine. We saw that in a…