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…
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HHS Office for Civil Rights Announces the Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency HIPAA Notifications of Enforcement Discretion
Notifications of Enforcement Discretion expire at 11:59 pm on May 11, 2023 Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces that the Notifications of Enforcement Discretion issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health…
Iran-Based Hackers Caught Carrying Out Destructive Attacks Under Ransomware Guise
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been observed carrying out destructive attacks on hybrid environments under the guise of a ransomware operation. That’s according to new findings from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which discovered the threat actor targeting both on-premises and cloud infrastructures in partnership with another emerging activity cluster dubbed DEV-1084….
New Batch of Classified Documents Appear on Social Media Sites
DNYUZ reports: A new batch of classified documents that appear to detail American national security secrets from Ukraine to the Middle East to China surfaced on social media sites on Friday, alarming the Pentagon and adding turmoil to a situation that seemed to have caught the Biden administration off guard. The scale of the leak…
MSI Confirms Cyberattack, Advises Caution With Firmware
Andrew E. Freedman reports: Gaming hardware manufacturer MSI confirmed today that it was the victim of a cyberattack. In a brief statement on its website, the company said that the attack hit “part of its information systems,” which have since returned to regular operations. The company advises its customers only to get BIOS and firmware updates…
10 Australians arrested as part of international illegal marketplace takedown
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and New South Wales Police Force, Queensland Police Service and Victoria Police. Editor’s note: Vision from the arrests is available via Hightail A well-known criminal marketplace offering access to stolen account credentials and compromised device information has been shut down following an international investigation led…