Andrea Peterson reports: Brazil’s Federal Police carried out eight search and seizure warrants Tuesday as part of an investigation into attacks claimed by the Lapsus$ Group that disrupted the country’s Ministry of Health last December, the agency announced in a press release. Police did not specifically name Lapsus$ Group in the announcement. However, the details described…
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TX: Methodist McKinny Hospital beat Karakurt to the punch by revealing attack quickly
Yesterday, Karakurt threat actors added the Methodist McKinny Hospital in Texas to their dark web leak site. They listed the hospital as a “pre-release,” which is their way of putting pressure on a victim — or trying to put pressure on a victim — to pay so their data is not leaked or auctioned off….
GA: Hacker disrupts systems at Forsyth County medical office
On July 25, Forsyth County deputies responded to reports that the computer system of a medical office had been hacked. According to a report, a practice representative told deputies they had been alerted by community partners that suspicious emails were being sent out through the practices email system. Read more at Appenmedia.com The news report…
Atlantic Dialysis Management Services notifies patients of data security incident
On August 5, Atlantic Dialysis Management Services (ADMS) in New York issued a press release that no longer appears to be available on any of the sites that published it — with one exception. ADMS also posted a security incident notice on its website. Their website notice reads, in part: On June 9, 2022, Atlantic…
Signal says third-party data breach exposed 1,900 phone numbers
J. Fingas reports: Signal’s reputation for secure messaging doesn’t make it completely invulnerable to hacking incidents. The company has confirmed that a data breach at verification partner Twillio exposed the phone numbers and SMS codes of roughly 1,900 users. As TechCrunch observed, the intruder could have either used the information to either identify Signal users or re-register their numbers to other…
Exclusive: Has France thrown a French national to U.S. prosecutorial wolves? Pourquoi?
On May 31, with the cooperation of Moroccan authorities, the U.S. secured the detention of Sebastien Raoult. Raoult is a 21-year-old French national who had been vacationing in Morocco and was about to take a flight to Belgium. The U.S. alleges Raoult is a member of ShinyHunters. While the U.S.’s interest in securing his arrest…