The Office of Inadequate Security
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Microsoft says the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang has added Qilin ransomware to its arsenal and is now using it in attacks. “In the second quarter of 2024, financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, our most closely tracked ransomware threat actor, added RansomHub and Qilin to its ransomware payloads in campaigns,” Microsoft said Monday. After…
Christopher Snowbeck reports: Second quarter earnings beat analyst expectations at UnitedHealth Group, even as the Minnetonka-based health care giant said it saw more expenses handling the fallout from a massive cyberattack earlier this year. The company now expects cyberattack costs could reach $2.45 billion for the year, including more direct expenses for financial support for…
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Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice writes: We are exclusively publishing the interview that we conducted with the Meow Leaks group and which they gave us in these last hours. We had known the Meow Leaks group as a group attributable, at least for the programming code used, to the Conti (v2) ransomware group….
Binghamton University press release by Anthony Borrelli: The WARN notice gets filed, and among the hundreds of workers who will get the proverbial pink slip, one spiteful ex-employee performs a hack that triggers a massive leak of confidential data ranging from bank account information to social security numbers. It sounds like the trappings of a plot out…
by Craig Silverman, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Failures Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous…