Mullvad reports on their blog: On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data. In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had…
Category: Of Note
HHS Cybersecurity Task Force Provides New Resources to Help Address Rising Threat of Cyberattacks in Health and Public Health Sector
On April 17, 2023, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 405(d) Program announced the release of the following resources to help address cybersecurity concerns in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector: Knowledge on Demand – a new online educational platform that offers free cybersecurity trainings for health and public health organizations to…
Dutch hacking suspects to be in court April 20; Dutch police try to warn others to “stop cybercrime”
There’s been a lot of speculation following the arrest of Conor Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin”) once it began to really sink in for some people that law enforcement has both the RaidForums BreachForums databases. One development that has contributed to the anxiety some people may be feeling is that the Dutch police have sent out thousands…
LockBit ransomware gang appears to be targeting Macs for the first time
Michael Potuck reports: Over the last several years, LockBit has become one of the most powerful ransomware gangs. While it has focused on Windows, Linux, and virtual host machines, it looks like the group has developed its first ransomware for Macs. Discovered by MalwareHunterTeam (via Brett Callow), what seems to be the first ransomware build designed for macOS has surfaced…
Lawsuit Claims Mount Nittany Health Shared Private Patient Information with Facebook, Google (update1)
Geoff Rushton reports: A lawsuit filed in Centre County Court this week alleges that Mount Nittany Health violated medical privacy rights by disclosing patients’ private information to Facebook, Google and other third-party websites without their knowledge. Ah. Another tracker lawsuit, right? What caught DataBreaches’ eye about this one was the following: … Mount Nittany has…
Guardsman arrested for leak of classified docs on Discord
Aric Toler, Michael Schwirtz, Haley Willis, Riley Mellen, Christiaan Triebert, Malachy Browne, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Julian E. Barnes report: The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National…