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FBI: BlackCat ransomware scratched 60-plus orgs

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Dissent

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: IN BRIEF The BlackCat ransomware gang, said to be the first-known ransomware group to successfully break into networks with Rust-written malware, has attacked at least 60 organizations globally as of March, according to the FBI. BlackCat, also known as ALPHV, is a relatively new group of cybercriminals that operates a Windows ransomware-as-a-service….

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Kaiser Wins Trademark Injunction Against Patient Data Company

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Dissent

Isaiah Poritz reports: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. won a preliminary injunction in California federal court against medical records company SureFile Filing Systems for attempting to sell patient data using Kaiser’s trademarks. Kaiser is likely to succeed on the merits of its breach of contract and common law trademark counterclaims against SureFile, Judge Mark C. Scarsi…

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Wawa wants a refund, says Mastercard owes $32 million for data breach penalties

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Dissent

Joseph N. DiStefano reports: Wawa, the Delaware County-based convenience store and gas station chain, paid $10.7 million last year linked to a 2019 breach of its customer payment security systems. But now it wants that money back — and more. On Monday in federal court in New York, Wawa sued Mastercard, the giant payment-card network,…

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Russian state hackers hit Ukraine with new malware variants

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports: Threat analysts report that the Russian state-sponsored threat group known as Gamaredon (a.k.a. Armageddon/Shuckworm) is launching attacks against targets in Ukraine using new variants of the custom Pteredo backdoor. Gamaredon has been launching cyber-espionage campaigns targeting the Ukrainian government and other critical entities since at least 2014. Read more at BleepingComputer.

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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brougcht by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal…

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Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: TraderTraitor: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Targets Blockchain Companies

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Dissent

From the Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) are issuing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight the cyber threat associated with cryptocurrency thefts and tactics used by a North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group since at least 2020….

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