ABC17 reports: A data breach has impacted Yale New Haven Health. On Friday, the healthcare system announced that Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among many hospitals nationwide that were impacted by software issues at Elekta. Elekta is the company that provides the software to run linear accelerators for radiation treatment of cancer…
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Biden administration unveils plan to defend electric sector from cyberattacks
Shannon Vavra reports: The Biden administration is buckling down on cyber threats to U.S. power infrastructure. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a 100-day plan to help shore up the U.S. electric power system against cyber threats Tuesday. The plan, rolled out with the private sector and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
How China’s cybercrime underground is making money off big data
Intel 471 writes: Both of these things are true: Big data is big business, and cybercriminals love money. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that these two ideas have blended together in some corners of the cybercrime underground. Through Intel 471’s observation and analysis of open source information and behavior on multiple closed forums, we…
The Case For and Against Criminalizing Ransomware Payments
Stuart Reed, UK Director, Orange Cyberdefense, writes: … Let’s first look at the reasons why ransomware payments should be made illegal. First, the obvious. Ransomware payments essentially fund cybercrime, and this is why ransomware attacks are becoming more common. There is no doubt that paying out leads to more attacks. […] On the other hand,…
Maine brothers sue Northern Light for sharing their info with Blackbaud
Judy Harrison reports on a lawsuit stemming from the Blackbaud ransomware incident in 2020 that has been covered previously on this site. Two brothers from Holden have sued Northern Light Health over a data breach last May that left them vulnerable to identity theft and affected more than 650,000 people. The complaint, filed Tuesday in…
Jp: 231 people’s data likely stolen in cyberattack on Cabinet Office
Tatsuya Sudo and Hidemasa Yoshizawa report: A file-sharing server used by the Cabinet Office and Cabinet Secretariat officials was illegally accessed and the personal information of hundreds of people may have been stolen, the Cabinet Office revealed on April 22. The top government offices use the server to share files with outside organizations. The files…