How much does incident response cost following a ransomware attack? Would you believe $12 million and counting? Rackspace’s costs from last year’s ransomware infection continue to mount: the cloud hosting biz told America’s financial watchdog, the SEC, its total expenses to date regarding that cyberattack have reached $12 million – so far. The extortionware raid…
Category: Business Sector
LockBit ransomware group assemble strike team to breach banks, law firms and governments.
Kevin Beaumont writes: Recently, I’ve been tracking LockBit ransomware group as they’ve been breaching large enterprises: I thought it would be good to break down what is happening and how they’re doing it, since LockBit are breaching some of the world’s largest organisations — many of whom have incredibly large security budgets. Read more at…
Toronto, Canada: Moneris Hit by Cyber Attack, Medusa Team Demands $6M Ransom
Marco A. De Felice reports: In the past hours, another prominent name in global finance has fallen victim to a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure. This time, the Canadian company Moneris, a technology and financial firm specializing in digital payment processing and serving as a partner for leading card brands in Canada such as…
FBI knows identities of some U.S. members of “Scattered Spider,” but no arrests so far?
Zeba Siddiqui, Christopher Bing, and Raphael Satter report: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that’s been tormenting corporate America over the last two years, according to nine cybersecurity responders, digital crime experts and victims. For more than six months, the FBI has known the identities of…
Property management firm Homeland, Inc. allegedly hacked, hackers claim to have hundreds of thousands of SSN of tenants
Hunters International has added a property management firm in Kentucky to their leak site. They provide a description of what they claim to have acquired from Homeland, Inc.: Over 200Gb of data – tenants info (ssn, income, family members, phone numbers, etc) – service management info (move-in/move-out files, agreements, expenses, etc) – financial data (payments,…
It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian
Brian Krebs reports: In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. I know that because my account at…