Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies have identified an issue relating to a very small percentage of responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, issued between April 2021 and March 2022. A technical issue has led to some raw data belonging to the constabularies being included within the files produced in response to the…
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United Bank Notifies Individuals of MOVEit Breach Involving Camden-Clark Physician Corporation and Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation
United Bank, a financial services institution which provides banking services to Camden-Clark Physician Corporation, a physicians’ group practice located in Parkersburg, W.V. and Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation (collectively “Camden-Clark”), suffered a data security incident. This data security incident involved the compromise of a software product called MOVEit that is used by thousands of organizations around…
Over 100K hacking forums accounts exposed by info-stealing malware
Ionut Ilascu reports: Researchers discovered 120,000 infected systems that contained credentials for cybercrime forums. Many of the computers belong to hackers, the researchers say. Analyzing the data, threat researchers found that the passwords used for logging into hacking forums were generally stronger than those for government websites. After pouring through 100 cybercrime forums, researchers at…
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing reports more than 4 million affected by MOVEit breach
As I tooted earlier this morning on Infosec.Exchange: One of the MOVEit victims was the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing, which was notified by IBM of the data breach. According to their notification, the information types included full name, Social Security number, Medicaid ID number, Medicare ID number, date of birth, home…
NYS Comptroller Audit: Cyber Incident Response Team (Follow-Up)
Issued Date: July 20, 2023 Agency/Authority: Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Division of Objective To assess the extent of implementation of the two recommendations included in our initial audit report, Cyber Incident Response Team (Report 2020-S-58). About the Program Cybercrimes continue to rise. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), complaints of phishing and similar cyberattacks often…
Monti Ransomware Unleashes a New Encryptor for Linux
Nathaniel Morales and Joshua Paul Ignacio report: … Following a two-month break from exposing victims on their leak site, the Monti ransomware group has resumed its malicious activities, this time targeting organizations within the legal and government sectors. Alongside this, a fresh Linux-based variant of Monti (Ransom.Linux.MONTI.THGOCBC) has emerged, displaying significant deviations from its other…