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Crawford County, Arkansas still impacted by ransomware attack last month

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Dissent

KNWA reports: Crawford County is still dealing with a cyberattack that happened around Christmas. According to the assistant to the county judge, unknown ransomware hit the county’s servers on December 26. Some limited previous coverage on the breach can be found here.

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Hacktivists Claim Ransomware Strike on Belarus Railway Intended to Disrupt Russian Forces

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Dissent

Hacktivism is not dead, although it hasn’t been in the news quite as much as financially driven ransomware incidents these past few years. Lucas Ropek reports: In an apparent bid to stop a Russian arms build-up near the Ukrainian border, a “pro-democracy” hacktivist group claims to have hacked the Belarusian railway system—allegedly one of the conduits for tanks and…

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Sacramento County: Hundreds of personal records exposed in data breach

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Dissent

Jose Fabian provides details on a Sacramento County phishing incident reported to HHS last month: Hundreds of records containing personal information of Sacramento County residents were exposed in a phishing attack last year, the county said. Sacramento County said 2,096 protected health information and 816 personal identifiable records were exposed during a cyber attack on June…

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that…

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Thousands of Indians’ Covid-19 related data leaked online (Updated to include NHA’s denial that it came from Co-WIN)

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Dissent

PTI reports: Personal data of thousands of people in India has been leaked from a government server which includes their name, mobile number, address and Covid test result, and these information can be now be accessed through an online search. The leaked data has been put on sale on Raid Forums website where a cyber…

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UK: Gloucester Council cyber attack linked to Russian hackers

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Dissent

BBC reports: A cyber attack which has knocked out parts of a council website has been linked to the work of Russian hackers. Gloucester City Council became aware that its IT systems had been affected on 20 December last year. Since then, the council’s online revenue and benefits, planning and customer services have been affected….

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