The following is not a paragraph from a story about fictional cybercriminals called Evil Corp. The following paragraph is from a white paper released this week by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services because there is a criminal enterprise known as Evil Corp that poses a serious threat to the healthcare sector. Typographical…
Category: Of Note
Insurers must rethink handling of cyber attacks on states
There have been a number of lawsuits addressing the issue of whether some cyberattacks should be excluded from cyberinsurance coverage as “acts of war.” Josephine Wolff, author of Cybersecurity Policy, writes: The invasion of Ukraine earlier this year drew considerable global attention to the possibility that Russia might combine its physical attacks on the country…
New Golang Ransomware Agenda Customizes Attacks
Mohamed Fahmy, Nathaniel Gregory Ragasa, Earle Maui Earnshaw, Bahaa Yamany, Jeffrey Francis Bonaobra, and Jay Yaneza write: We recently discovered a new piece of targeted ransomware that was created in the Go programming language and that explicitly targeted one of our customers. This was evidenced by the specific email addresses and credentials the ransomware used. Malware written in…
Edfinancial and OSLA student loan account registration info hacked in Nelnet breach; 2.5 million affected
Many student loan borrowers caught a huge break this week with government forgiveness of some student loan debt. But for 2.5 million student loan borrowers, the week also brought news of a breach of their contact information and Social Security numbers. Nelnet Servicing in Nebraska provides technology services to EdFinancial and OSLA, including portals that…
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach lawsuit ends in 11th hour settlement
Mark Townsend reports: Facebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after the Observer exposed the scandal that mired the tech giant in repeated controversy. A court filing reveals that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has in principle settled for an…
NHS cyberattack causing ‘total chaos’ in hospitals could take a year to recover
Rebecca Thomas reports: It could take more than a year for hospitals to recover patient record systems following the recent NHS cyberattack, The Independent has learned. Hospitals impacted are likely to need two weeks to recover for every day the situation goes unresolved, according to NHS sources. While initial attention following the ransomware attack on Advantage software was its impact on…