Colonial Park Realty Co. (Enders Insurance) issued a press release about a data breach that occurred last April when an employee’s email account was compromised. The breach was discovered on May 7, 2020, and they have been investigating since then, it seems, to find out who was impacted. Enders claims that they are notifying “in…
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Police investigate racist hack that disrupted Ben Franklin High students’ virtual field trip
KYW reports: Police and the School District of Philadelphia are investigating after a virtual field trip by students at Ben Franklin High School was hacked. The district said three dozen students were subjected to suggestive images and inappropriate language. Read more on Radio.com.
Transport for NSW confirms data taken in Accellion breach
Aras Barbaschow reports: Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) has confirmed being impacted by a cyber attack on a file transfer system owned by Accellion. Read more on ZDNet.
FireEye and Accellion provide more details on attack
Andrew Moore, Genevieve Stark, Isif Ibrahima, Van Ta of FireEye write: Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) to install a newly discovered web shell named DEWMODE. The motivation of UNC2546 was not immediately apparent, but starting in late January 2021, several organizations…
Nigerian Influencer Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas Laundered Funds For North Korean Hackers, Says U.S. Department Of Justice
David Dawkins reports: New details have emerged about the case against Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas, who wowed the internet with pictures of his clothes, cars, money and lifestyle. In July, Abbas was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles with conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from ‘“business email compromise”’ (BEC) frauds and other…
CIS launches no-cost ransomware service for U.S. hospitals
Kat Jerich reports: The nonprofit Center for Internet Security announced this week that it had launched a no-cost ransomware protection service for private hospitals in the United States. The Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting service, which is already available for public hospitals, health departments and healthcare organizations, uses Enterprise Threat Protector software from the cybersecurity…