Lawrence Abrams reports: Threat actors are using stolen NVIDIA code signing certificates to sign malware to appear trustworthy and allow malicious drivers to be loaded in Windows. […] After Lapsus$ leaked NVIDIA’s code-signing certificates, security researchers quickly found that the certificates were being used to sign malware and other tools used by threat actors. According to samples…
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Hackers leak 190GB of alleged Samsung data, source code
Ionut Ilascu reports: The Lapsus$ data extortion group leaked today a huge collection of confidential data they claim to be from Samsung Electronics, the South Korean giant consumer electronics company. The leak comes less than a week after Lapsus$ released a 20GB document archive from 1TB of data stolen from Nvidia GPU designer. In a note posted…
The Puerto Rican Organization to Motivate, Enlighten, and Serve Addicts (PROMESA) discloses 2020 data breach
Is there anyone who thinks this timeline/delay to notification is just fine? On July 17, 2020, Acacia determined that an unauthorized person gained access to certain employee email accounts for a limited time between June 6, 2020 and June 12, 2020. Their investigation was inconclusive as to whether anyone accessed the emails and attachments in…
Monongalia Health System hacked again? Second incident report in one year.
Monongalia Health System in West Virginia issued a press release this week about a data breach that impacted patients, employees, and contractors. It was the second incident reported by them in a one-year period. But was this incident unrelated to the first incident or related to it? It’s not yet clear, let’s back up to…
Hackers interrupt Catholic charity’s online press conference on Ukraine
Hacktivists on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war have been busy. CNA reports that some hackers disrupted a Zoom event to stream obscenities and to post fake messages from participants — because disrupting faith-based events is always going to score points with the public, right? An online press conference by a Catholic charity on the…
LAPSUS and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Ransom Day1 (UPDATED)
First they thought their victim hacked them back. Then they appeared to be trolled by a “negotiator” who wasn’t. I don’t know if the Brazilian threat actors who call themselves LAPSUS felt like moving to Australia after a bad day at the ransom office yesterday, but their attack on Nvidia and the aftermath seemed somewhat……