Ian Barker reports: Phishing remains one of the most significant cyber threats impacting organizations worldwide and a new report shows credential theft attacks surged dramatically in the second half of 2024, rising by 703 percent. The report from SlashNext shows that overall, email-based threats rose by 202 percent over the same period, with individual users receiving…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Dragos Industrial Ransomware Analysis: Q3 2024
Abdulrahman H. Alamri and Lexie Mooney of Dragos write: The third quarter (July – September) of 2024 brought transformative shifts to the ransomware landscape, emphasizing its dynamic and continuously evolving nature. The ransomware threat ecosystem remained highly active in the third quarter, fueled by new groups, rebranding of existing entities, expansion of initial access broker…
A positive example of forthright breach disclosure (1)
Update: The notification DataBreaches read is not what was sent out to affected consumers. That one can be found on pages 3 and 4 of the embedded file. The consumer version is not as detailed as the disclosure I have raved about. But do read about the one they sent New Hampshire that was excellent….
Granite School District breach worse than the district has revealed — former employee (1)
Some former employees of Granite School District in Utah are reporting frustration and anger with the district’s incident response to an attack by the Rhysida group. One has written up what he found when he examined the publicly leaked data. On September 20, 2024, Granite became aware of suspicious activity on its network. An investigation…
Kitsap Mental Health Services breach impacted sensitive patient information (1)
Update: DataBreaches did not spot it earlier, but on December 12, Kitsap Mental Health Services posted a notice on its website about a cyberattack that it reportedly detected on October 17, 2024. Investigation revealed that on September 17 and between October 8, 2024, and October 19, 2024, there was unauthorized access to their network and…
UT Southwestern Medical Center has disclosed at least four breaches since July 2023. Is HHS investigating?
How many patient data breaches can a covered entity have before HHS OCR opens a serious investigation into their compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule? According to DataBreaches’ count, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Texas has disclosed at least four breaches since July 2023. As a brief recap of the first three: In July 2023,…