ERR News reports: The European Union on Monday (January 27) imposed sanctions on three members of Russia’s military intelligence (GRU), who conducted a cyberattack against Estonia in May 2020. Estonia named the three GRU members – Yuri Denisov, Nikolay Korchagin and Vitali Shevchenko – last autumn after an investigation. It then declared them international fugitives….
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Let’s Secure Insurance failed to secure their own data storage. Now they have a breach.
Kumar Hemant reports: Let’s Secure Insurance Brokers Pvt Ltd., a prominent Indian insurance brokerage firm, has reportedly fallen victim to ransomware. The perpetrators, identified as the Kill Security (alias KillSec) group, claim to have gained unauthorised access to the company’s data, sparking concerns over potential data breaches. India has increasingly become a focal point for…
Slovak PM accuses Ukraine — without any evidence — of involvement in alleged “massive cyberattack”
Oleh Pavliuk and Yevhen Kizilov report: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said that Slovakia’s national insurance company has suffered a “massive cyberattack” and claimed, without any evidence, that Ukraine was involved. Source: European Pravda with reference to Dennik N Details: At an emergency press conference on Friday, 24 January, Fico said the cyberattack had started at noon…
UnitedHealth estimates 190M people impacted by Change Healthcare cyberattack
Paige Minemyer reports: Change Healthcare now estimates that 190 million people were impacted in the massive cyberattack that took down its services nearly a year ago. UnitedHealth Group, Change’s parent company, said in a statement to Fierce Healthcare that the “vast majority” of people impacted have received an individual or substitute notice about the breach….
US Justice Department drops case against Texas doctor charged with leaking transgender care data
Prosecutors may have dropped the case against Dr. Eithan Haim, but his conduct is a reminder of the insider threat. AP reports: Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren’t under his care. The…
Hospital El Cruce takes its website offline following a severe cyberattack (1)
SuspectFile reports: A severe blow to Argentina’s public healthcare system has been dealt by the ransomware group Medusa, which, in recent days, through one of its affiliates, carried out a significant attack on the IT networks of the Hospital de Alta Complejidad El Cruce “Néstor Kirchner” (Hospital El Cruce), located in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires…