By Ben Seri and Barak Hadad Nine vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure used by 80% of major hospitals in North America. Swisslog’s Translogic Pneumatic Tube System (PTS), a solution that plays a crucial role in patient care, found vulnerable to devastating attack. Read more on ARMIS.
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Secrets and Lies: The Games Ransomware Attackers Play
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: If you’re a criminal, practicing good operational security would seem to preclude granting tell-all news media interviews. And yet we’ve seen a spate of attackers who wield ransomware – including MountLocker, LockBit, REvil and DarkMatter – sharing insights into their inclinations, motivations and tactics. One perhaps inadvertent takeaway from their interviews…
SolarWinds urges US judge to toss out crap infosec sueball: We got pwned by actual Russia, give us a break
Gareth Corfield reports: SolarWinds is urging a US federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against it by aggrieved shareholders who say they were misled about its security posture in advance of the infamous Russian attack on the business. Insisting that it was “the victim of the most sophisticated cyberattack in history” in a…
Disgruntled ransomware affiliate leaks the Conti gang’s technical manuals
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A disgruntled member of the Conti ransomware program has leaked today the manuals and technical guides used by the Conti gang to train affiliate members on how to access, move laterally, and escalate access inside a hacked company and then exfiltrate its data before encrypting files. Leaked on an underground cybercrime forum…
Leaked Document Says Google Fired Dozens of Employees for Data Misuse
Joseph Cox reports: Google fired dozens of employees between 2018 and 2020 for abusing their access to the company’s tools or data, with some workers potentially facing allegations of accessing Google user or employee data, according to an internal Google document obtained by Motherboard. The document provides concrete figures on an often delicate part of…
Waikato DHB wins injunction to stop Radio NZ using hacked data
Stuff reports: Waikato District Health Board has succeeded in court action to stop Radio New Zealand using data taken in a cyber-attack. In a decision released on Wednesday, the health board has won an interim injunction through the High Court restraining Radio NZ from accessing stolen data without consent and to permanently delete that data…