There’s an update to the case of Vitalii Antonenko, whose case was noted on this site in 2020. Shore News Network reports: Vitalii Antonenko, a 32-year-old New York City resident, pleaded guilty on Thursday to multiple conspiracies involving computer hacking, trafficking stolen credit card information, and laundering the illicit proceeds. Antonenko entered his guilty plea…
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Late Discovery: CMS and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation notify 947k of last year’s MOVEit data breach
Susan Morse reports: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation are mailing written notifications to 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information may have been compromised in a cyber breach. A security vulnerability was found in MOVEit software, a third-party application used in the transfer…
Free Russia Foundation to investigate data breach after internal documents published online
Novaya Gazeta Europe reports: One of Russia’s most prominent pro-democracy organisations, the Free Russia Foundation, announced that it was investigating a potential cyberattack on Friday, following a leak of thousands of emails and documents related to its work. On Thursday, Telegram channel SOTA reported that “more than 2,500 email chains and more than 13GB of…
Russian military hackers linked to critical infrastructure attacks
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The United States and its allies have linked a group of Russian hackers (tracked as Cadet Blizzard and Ember Bear) behind global critical infrastructure attacks to Unit 29155 of Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU). In a joint advisory published today, the Russian GRU military intelligence hackers,…
WazirX confirms 43% of customer funds unrecoverable following $230 million cyberattack, begins restructuring
Ouch. Rachna Dhanrajani reports: India’s cryptocurrency exchange WazirX, on Monday, revealed that 43% of customer funds lost in a recent cyberattack are unlikely to be recovered. In a virtual press conference, the exchange announced it is undergoing a restructuring process, which could take up to six months. They are also in discussions with a potential…
Franklin County judge grants city request to suppress cyber expert’s efforts to warn public
Did the First Amendment get rescinded in Franklin County, Ohio? What the heck is going on there? Bill Bush of The Columbus Dispatch reports: A Franklin County judge on Thursday granted the city of Columbus a temporary restraining order against a cybersecurity expert who has been telling the media about the public impact of the…