Ryan Kath and Jim Haddadin report: Inside the Bay State, a handful of attacks against cities and towns have garnered widespread attention, though the problem may be more prevalent than many imagine. Records obtained by the NBC10 Boston Investigators show dozens of Massachusetts communities have quietly negotiated ransomware attacks, sometimes taking days or weeks to…
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Inside Kenyan Hacker Group Gaining International Fame
Martin Siele reports: SilentCards, based in Nairobi, has previously been accused of orchestrating multi-million shilling heists in the financial services sector, particularly targeting banks and their Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). Singapore-based cyber-security firm, Group-IB, in its annual Hi-Tech Crimes Report identified SilentCards as one of the prominent players in the global cyber-crime landscape. Read more on Kenyans.co.ke
Threat Vector Number 1
Britton White is a cybersecurity & HIPAA Compliance advisor. The following article is reproduced with his kind permission. Email is the bane of our existence and the number one threat vector….. there’s no other way to say it. I’ve rummaged through over 30 hospitals and hundreds of clinics (some multiple times) in my time conducting…
Potential class action lawsuits filed against two more ransomware victims
On Thursday, I reported on a potential class action lawsuit that had been filed against two hospitals in Puerto Rico that suffered a ransomware attack. As I noted in my post, none of the named plaintiffs claimed that they had suffered any concrete injury or harm other than the cost and time involved in monitoring…
US government goes all in to expose new malware used by North Korean hackers
Dan Goodin reports: The US Pentagon, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security on Friday exposed a North Korean hacking operation and provided technical details for seven pieces of malware used in the campaign. The US Cyber National Mission Force, an arm of the Pentagon’s US Cyber Command, said on Twitter that the malware is “currently…
Personal information of 144,000 Canadians mishandled by federal bureaucracies
Sam McGriskin reports: The personal information of 144,000 Canadians has been mishandled by federal departments and agencies over the last two years according to the House of Commons figures. CBC News reported that the Privacy Commissioner’s office noted that they saw “strong indications of systemic under-reporting.” Many people who were affected by the privacy breaches were…