Regina Mihindukulasuriya reports on some eyebrow-raising claims. Last week, Bengaluru-based cybersecurity firm CloudSEK claimed it had found patient data from Sree Saran Medical Centre (SSMC) in Tirupati being sold on the dark web. This week, the company has itself become the victim of a cyber attack. Over 6-7 December, CloudSEK updated its blog about the…
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HoHoHo Holiday routines…
RedSense has issued a new paper that starts with a reminder: Holidays Routine 2022/23: Not Novel Naughty or nice, there’s a few things in cyber circuits that won’t change in this year’s Holiday Season. 1. Threat actors are financially motivated, driven by human needs, and the holidays are expensive 2. Threat actors stereotypically choose simple…
Arizona Man Arrested For Point-Of-Sale Cyber Intrusions
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the arrest of FOSTER COOLEY for charges in connection with a scheme to conduct cyber intrusions targeting a New York-based…
Fr: Victim of a cyberattack, Trois Cantons ambulances in Peyrehorade alerts its patients
(Machine translation): The Trois Cantons ambulances in Peyrehorade have lost all their files and appointments for the next few weeks. “As if it had crashed”. Tuesday, December 6, around 5:30 p.m., the ambulances of the Three Cantons in Peyrehorade, in the south of the Landes, were the victims of a cyberattack with a ransom demand, indicates…
Google: N. Korean hackers exploited Seoul Halloween tragedy to spread malware
Reuters reports: North Korean government-backed hackers referenced the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul to distribute malware to users in South Korea, Google’s Threat Analysis group said in a report. The malware was embedded in Microsoft Office documents which purported to be a government report on the tragedy that killed more than 150 people after tens…
Latest data breach shows updated details about Taiwan VP, top national security chief: hacker
Sophia Yang reports: Following media reports of a massive data breach in Taiwan, the Kuomintang legislative caucus on Wednesday (Dec. 7) urged the government to act swiftly in collaboration with foreign governments involved to remove the data from the dark web. In October, media reported a user of “BreachedForums” named “OKE” was selling the private…