Mehal Jain reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that in a case of hacking and data theft, in addition to penal provisions of the IT Act, offences under the IPC would also be attracted and that the IT Act would not exclude the applicability of the IPC. Read more on LiveLaw.in. Related: Order.
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Qlocker ransomware gang shuts shop after extorting owners of QNAP NAS drives
Graham Cluley writes: With all the headlines about ransomware attacks hitting companies hard, you might think there’s only bad news around the subject. Well, think again. Not only has the Darkside ransomware gang seemingly shut down since the high-profile attack which resulted in the Colonial Pipeline being shut down, and numerous dark web forums announce that…
Veterans Affairs says no evidence of data loss from SolarWinds hack
Jared Serbu reports: Another big federal agency has apparently escaped unscathed from the SolarWinds hack. Leaders from the Department of Veterans Affairs told Congress on Thursday they are now confident that none of their data was compromised, even though the company’s Orion system had a prominent presence throughout VA’s IT networks. Read more on Federal…
FBI: Conti Ransomware Attacks Impact Healthcare and First Responder Networks
The FBI has issued a Flash Alert about Conti. Summary The FBI identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networks, including law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, 9-1-1 dispatch centers, and municipalities within the last year. These healthcare and first responder networks are among the more than 400 organizations…
Update: Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services notified 209,000 patients of February ransomware incident
On February 16, DataBreaches.net reported that Conti threat acctors had apparently attacked Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services, Inc (RMCHCS) in New Mexico. As it has done in similar attacks, the threat actors dumped a small sample of files as proof. The files include copies of handwritten injury reports and other reports related to named individuals’…
Data of 100+ million Android users exposed via misconfigured cloud services
Ionut Ilascu reports: Security researchers discovered that personal data of more than 100 million Android users has been exposed due to various misconfigurations of cloud services. The data was found in unprotected real-time databases used by 23 apps with download counts ranging from 10,000 to 10 million and also includes internal developer resources. Read more…