Hollie West reports: Some employees at Bridgestone’s La Vergne plant reported being sent home Sunday morning due to a possible cyber attack. Bridgestone Americas confirmed that it learned of a potential security incident and has launched an investigation. The company says it has disconnected some manufacturing and retreading facilities in North America and Latin America…
Author: Dissent
Ukrainian Cyberpolice recruit help fighting Russia
None of the press email addresses for the Ukrainian cyberpolice have been working, so I’ll just post a notice from them here. I had reached out to them to ask them if they had tried directly recruiting those who they have arrested in the past, such as those affiliated with Clop. I’ve also sent an…
260,000 confidential attorney discipline records published after data breach, State Bar of California says
Scott Schwebke reports: A website that aggregates court cases nationwide has published 260,000 confidential attorney discipline records, the State Bar of California said Saturday, Feb. 26. The data breach by shadowy judyrecords.com was first discovered Friday by the State Bar. “We apologize to anyone who is affected by the website’s unlawful display of nonpublic data,”…
Conti ransomware gang chats leaked by pro-Ukrainian member
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A member of the Conti ransomware group, believed to be Ukrainian of origin, has leaked the gang’s internal chats after the group’s leaders posted an aggressive pro-Russian message on their official site, on Friday, in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The message appears to have rubbed Conti’s Ukrainian members the…
LAPSUS and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Ransom Day1 (UPDATED)
First they thought their victim hacked them back. Then they appeared to be trolled by a “negotiator” who wasn’t. I don’t know if the Brazilian threat actors who call themselves LAPSUS felt like moving to Australia after a bad day at the ransom office yesterday, but their attack on Nvidia and the aftermath seemed somewhat……
JDC Healthcare Management issues second press release about malware incident last summer
On October 7, JDC Healthcare Management (Jefferson Dental Care) issued a press release concerning a malware incident discovered in August. At the time, they notified HHS that 501 patients were affected — a number that typically means “We know it’s more than 500 but we don’t have an exact count yet.” Today, they issued a…