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INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia II took down 22,000 malicious IP addresses

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Dissent

From an INTERPOL announcement yessterday: A global INTERPOL operation has taken down more than 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats. Operation Synergia II (1 April – 31 August 2024) specifically targeted phishing, ransomware and information stealers and was a joint effort from INTERPOL, private sector partners and law enforcement agencies from…

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City of Columbus, Ohio cyberattack by Rhysida affected 500,000 residents

Posted on November 6, 2024July 14, 2025 by Dissent

There’s an update to an incident affecting the City of Columbus, Ohio. That’s the one where a judge prohibited David L. Ross from talking to the media about it after the city sought to silence him after he began publicly refuting the city’s false or inaccurate claims about the breach. The city subsequently settled its…

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FBI has conducted more than 30 disruption operations in 2024

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Dissent

Christian Vasquez reports: The FBI is seeing progress in the fight against ransomware gangs after conducting more than 30 disruption operations this year in which officials targeted the infrastructure used by those groups, one of the bureau’s top cybersecurity officials said Wednesday. Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said during CyberScoop’s…

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HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles Ransomware Cybersecurity Investigation for $500,000

Posted on October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 by Dissent

A press release from HHS OCR today announces a settlement with Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota. In July 2017, DataBreaches reported that the entity was notifying 10,200 patients after a ransomware incident.   Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a settlement with Plastic Surgery…

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North Korean Group Collaborates with Play Ransomware in Significant Cyber Attack

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Dissent

Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Threat actors in North Korea have been implicated in a recent incident that deployed a known ransomware family called Play, underscoring their financial motivations. The activity, observed between May and September 2024, has been attributed to a threat actor tracked as Jumpy Pisces, which is also known as Andariel, APT45, DarkSeoul, Nickel Hyatt,…

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U.S. Joins International Action Against RedLine and META Infostealers; unseals charges against Maxim Rudometov (1)

Posted on October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 by Dissent

AUSTIN, Texas – The Department of Justice joined the Netherlands, Belgium, Eurojust and other partners in announcing an international disruption effort against the current version of RedLine Infostealer, one of the most prevalent infostealers in the world that has targeted millions of victim computers, and the closely-related META Infostealer. The Justice Department, FBI, Naval Criminal…

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