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Russian national and leader of Qakbot malware conspiracy indicted in long-running global ransomware scheme

Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 by Dissent

Operation Endgame had teased the announcement earlier today in a video called, “My Happy Lie — Cortes.”  Now the Department of Justice has issued the following press release about Rafailevich Gallyamov, aka “Cortes” and other aliases:  A federal indictment unsealed today charges Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, 48, of Moscow, Russia, with leading a group of cyber criminals who…

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‘Deep concern’ for domestic abuse survivors as cybercriminals expected to publish confidential abuse survivors’ addresses

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Dissent

Alexander Martin reports: Sensitive information about women and girls who have survived domestic abuse is now expected to be exposed through a data extortion incident impacting the British government’s Legal Aid Agency, potentially revealing their locations to abusers and in some cases requiring them to move homes. The government confirmed the incident on Monday, saying everyone who applied for…

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Privilege Under Fire: Protecting Forensic Reports in the Wake of a Data Breach

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Dissent

Alexander Koskey, Madison McMahan, and Matthew White of Baker Donelson write: A recent decision from the Federal Court of Australia in McClure v.  Medibank Private Limited [2025] FCA 167 underscores just how easily privilege can be lost. While McClure was decided under Australian law, the court’s reasoning closely aligns with a series of U.S. cases that have…

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Cyberattack brings down Kettering Health phone lines, MyChart patient portal access (1)

Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 by Dissent

Samantha Wildow and Josh Sweigart report: A cyberattack is causing a system-wide technology outage at Kettering Health, forcing some medical procedures to be canceled, bringing down phone lines and the MyChart patient portal and diverting emergency crews to other facilities. “Earlier this morning, Kettering Health experienced a system-wide technology outage that is causing challenges to…

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Breachforums Boss “Pompompurin” to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach

Posted on May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 by Dissent

There’s an update to breach previously reported here in 2023.  Brian Krebs reports: In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in…

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$28 million in Texas’ cybersecurity funding for schools left unspent

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Dissent

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…

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