Elias Groll and AJ Vicens report: Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, cybersecurity firm Fortra and the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center announced legal action Thursday to seize domains related to criminal activity involving cracked copies of the security testing application Cobalt Strike, which has become a favorite tool for cybercriminals to carry out attacks around…
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Sentiment recovers $870K after negotiations with hacker
Ezra Reguerra reports: Lending protocol Sentiment has managed to recover the stolen funds from the recent hack by offering the hacker a bounty worth $95,000. In an on-chain transaction on the Arbitrum blockchain, Sentiment sent a message to the hacker offering $95,000 if the hacker returned the funds by April 6, urging the hacker to “do the…
Two-Fifths of IT Pros Told to Keep Breaches Quiet
Phil Muncaster reports: Over two-fifths (42%) of IT professionals have been told to keep a security breach under wraps, potentially inflaming regulatory compliance risk, according to a new study from Bitdefender. The security vendor polled 400 IT professionals, from IT junior managers to CISOs across various industry sectors, in organizations with over 1000 employees. Read more at InfoSecurity.
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
Reuters reports: Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees…
Reports continue to emerge from Community Health Systems entities affected by Fortra/GoAnywhere breach
The number of entities disclosing that they were affected by the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach continues to mount. Because a number of entities are part of CHSPSC, LLC (“CHSPSC”) DataBreaches wants to make readers aware of two notices: Community Health System’s security incident notice. and A map of CHSPSC locations so you can look at your state…
Cyberwarfare is all in the mind, says Britain
The Economist reports: It is the deterrent rocket force of our age,” gushed one columnist. “Cyber divisions are worth more than aircraft carrier[s] or nuclear weapons.” He was referring to Britain’s National Cyber Force (ncf), created in 2020 with a mission to “disrupt, deny, degrade” in cyberspace. Now the ncf is opening up to dispel such fantasies. On…