Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Telecommunication services providers in Africa are the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-linked threat actor at least since November 2022. The intrusions have been pinned on a hacking crew tracked by Symantec as Daggerfly, and which is also tracked by the broader cybersecurity community as Bronze Highland and Evasive Panda….
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Rochester Public Schools Reintroduce Technology Following Cyber Attack
Cam Speck reports that everything old is new again, and students and teachers are discovering some benefits to not being so engaged with technology: Rochester Public Schools (RPS) experienced a cyber attack that had significant consequences on their technology systems, which resulted in them being taken offline. However, in the wake of the attack, the staff,…
State’s second-largest health insurer suffers cybersecurity attack
Jessica Bartlett reports: The state’s second-largest insurer suffered large technical outages due to a cybersecurity ransomware incident. Point32Health, the parent company for Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, said in a memo on its website that it identified a ransomware incident on Monday, affecting the systems it uses to service members, accounts, brokers…
Virginia Passes Legislation Prohibiting the Use of Employees’ Social Security Numbers as Identifiers
Jason C. Gavejian and Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis write: On March 21, 2023, Virginia’s governor approved Senate Bill 1040, which prohibits an employer from using an employee’s social security number or any derivative as an employee’s identification number. The bill also prohibits including an employee’s social security number or any number derived from the social…
Five months after Crown Point Schools suffered a cyberattack, they still don’t know what happened or what they will do
In November, Crown Point Community School students returned to classes after a “network outage” incident that the district feared might be a cybersecurity breach. Now, months later, William Skipworth reports that the investigation into the cybersecurity breach could last another few months. The investigation, which has been ongoing since November, could last a few more…
HHS Cybersecurity Task Force Provides New Resources to Help Address Rising Threat of Cyberattacks in Health and Public Health Sector
On April 17, 2023, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 405(d) Program announced the release of the following resources to help address cybersecurity concerns in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector: Knowledge on Demand – a new online educational platform that offers free cybersecurity trainings for health and public health organizations to…