October 31, 2023 Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that the United States has civilly forfeited $2,462,000 in proceeds obtained from a wire fraud scheme that involved the takeover of a business email account. The forfeited funds are being returned to the fraud victim. According to court documents, the victim, Company…
Category: Business Sector
Boeing Confirms ‘Cyber Incident’ from LockBit Hacking Group
Rojoef Manuel reports: Boeing has confirmed a “cyber incident” in its parts and distributions business days after a ransomware group published threats against the company. The acknowledgment came after LockBit hackers said on Friday they had tapped “a tremendous amount” of classified data from Boeing that would be leaked online if the company does not…
Okta hit by third-party data breach exposing employee information
Bill Toulas reports: Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. Okta is a San Fransisco-based cloud identity and access management solutions provider whose Single Sign-On (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and API access management services are used by thousands of organizations worldwide….
Wawa Data Breach Settlement’s $3 Million Lawyers Fee Rejected
Jennifer Kay reports: A federal appeals court has vacated over $3 million in attorneys’ fees awarded as part of a $12.2 million data breach settlement against Wawa Inc. The fee award issue now is remanded to the district court “to take a closer look at the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees in proportion to class…
1Password, Cloudflare affected by Okta compromise
Jonathan Greig reports: Password manager 1Password and cybersecurity and networking giant Cloudflare were targeted by hackers following the breach affecting single sign-on provider Okta, according to statements from both companies. First reported by Ars Technica and later confirmed in a blog post directly from company chief technology officer Pedro Canahuati, 1Password said it detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance that…
Cisco IOS XE threat actors hide their tracks, find other zero-days
Catalin Cimpanu writes: Over the past three days—since our last newsletter edition—the situation around the latest zero-day attacks targeting Cisco IOS XE devices has drastically changed, and we feel the need to cover it in our featured section and provide a short summary of what has been going on. Although these attacks have been taking…