Defendants Spent $4M at Nightclubs, $9M on Exotic Cars WASHINGTON – A four-count superseding indictment, unsealed today in U.S. District Court, charges 12 additional people – Americans and foreign nationals – for allegedly participating in a cyber-enabled racketeering conspiracy throughout the United States and abroad that netted them more than $263 million. Several were arrested…
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RIBridges firewall worked. But forensic report says hundreds of alarms went unnoticed by Deloitte.
Alexander Castro reports: A cybercriminal group breached the state’s public benefits portal last July, lingered inside the network’s backend for five months, and triggered hundreds of firewall alerts when it transferred gigabytes of Rhode Islanders’ data to its own servers in November. But RIBridges system vendor and manager Deloitte, a multinational firm valued at $67.2 billion last…
Chinese Hackers Hit Drone Sector in Supply Chain Attacks
Ionut Arghire reports: A Chinese threat actor was seen disrupting the drone supply chain in multi-wave attacks against various organizations in Taiwan and South Korea, Trend Micro reports. Dubbed Earth Ammit and believed to be tied to Chinese APTs, the hacking group was seen launching two attack campaigns between 2023 and 2024, targeting organizations across…
Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom
Tanaya Macheel reports on what appears to be a very costly attack that involved bribing overseas agents: Coinbase on Thursday reported that cyber criminals bribed overseas support agents to steal customer data to use in social engineering attacks. The incident may cost Coinbase up to $400 million to fix, the company estimated. The crypto exchange operator…
$28 million in Texas’ cybersecurity funding for schools left unspent
How often have we heard about cyberattacks affecting Texas school districts? And how often have we heard that k-12 districts are underfunded for cybersecurity and/or don’t have trained personnel? Yet when they are offered money, many districts have not availed themselves of the support. Why? Brian New, Lexi Salazar, Scott Fralicks, and Mike Lozano have a somewhat…
Cybersecurity incident at Central Point School District 6
Another day, another school district hit. KDRV in Oregon reports: Central Point School District 6 is addressing a cybersecurity incident that impacted its digital systems. According to the district, unauthorized access was detected on Wednesday, leading to immediate activation of cybersecurity protocols. The affected systems were isolated to prevent further issues. Cybersecurity experts and law…