Timothy Edgley reports: Hampshire County Council has been ranked as the worst county authority in the country for human error data breaches. New research from VPNOverview, which carries out extensive research on VPNs, online privacy, security and internet freedom, has shown that Hampshire County Council has recorded thousands of human error data breaches in the…
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FBI: Ranzy Locker ransomware hit at least 30 US companies this year
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The FBI said on Monday that Ranzy Locker ransomware operators had compromised at least 30 US companies this year from various industry sectors. “Unknown cyber criminals using Ranzy Locker ransomware had compromised more than 30 US businesses as of July 2021,” the FBI said in a TLP: WHITE flash alert. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Ukrainian police detain gang who laundered funds for Russian hacking groups
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ukraine’s national police detained suspects on Monday for stealing funds from cryptocurrency wallets and laundering profits for cybercrime organizations. The arrests took place as part of a joint investigation with US authorities, the Ukrainian National Police (NPU) said in a press release on Monday. An undisclosed number of suspects were detained following house searchers…
Will the REvil Story Finally be Over?
Victoria Kivilevich writes that even if REvil is gone, the trend is still to increasing ransomware attacks. In June 2021, the last month of REvil’s full-time activities, 205 victims were published on ransomware blogs and data leak sites. Meanwhile, in August 2021, a full month after the group’s disappearance, 248 victims were published on the…
In: IPO-bound unicorn MobiKwik under RBI scanner for data breach
Debangana Ghosh reports on an incident involving a claimed Mobikwik breach that this site covered a number of times. The alleged data breach of 3.5 million users at IPO-bound fintech unicorn MobiKwik is under RBI’s scanner. The company has submitted a forensic audit report detailing the data breach, the RBI said in response to a…
Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline
Joseph Menn and Christopher Bing broke the news yesterday: The ransomware group REvil was itself hacked and forced offline this week by a multi-country operation, according to three private sector cyber experts working with the United States and one former official. …. “The FBI, in conjunction with Cyber Command, the Secret Service and like-minded countries,…