It appears that law enforcement has caught up with “Lifelock.” DataBreaches.net had reported exclusively on “Lifelock” back in April of 2018, and then again in June and July of 2018. At the time, I pointed out some of the striking similarities between “Lifelock” and “thedarkoverlord” (or the one I refer to as the first spokesperson…
Category: Of Note
Woodcreek Provider Services notifies more than 210,000 patients of Netgain Technology ransomware incident
Back in January, this site noted that a ransomware attack on Netgain Technology LLC had impacted Ramsey County. Previous coverage of the Netgain Technology attack had reported that Netgain had stated that they were victims of a ransomware attack on November 24th, 2020 and On December 4th, customers began receiving emails from Netgain stating that…
Elite Cybercrime Forum “Maza” Breached by Unknown Attacker
Wow. From Flashpoint, yesterday: On March 3, 2021, Flashpoint detected a breach of the elite Russian cybercrime forum known as “Maza” (originally called “Mazafaka”). This breach follows recent attacks (both attempted and successful) on other Russian cybercrime forums, including the takeover of Russian-language forum Verified. Known to be in operations as far back as 2003, Maza…
Court Upholds Insurers’ Denial of $6M Crime Claim for Phishing Loss
Andrew G. Simpson reports: Real estate software maker RealPage has been denied a $6 million computer crime insurance coverage claim because the stolen funds were not in its possession but were instead being held by a payment processing firm at the time of a phishing scheme. National Union Fire Insurance Co. (a unit of American…
Mandiant issues final report on its investigation into Accellion breach
Yesterday, Mandiant issued its final report on its investigation into the Accellion data breach that impacted a number of its big clients including Jones Day law firm, SingTel, Bombardier, Goodwin Procter, the Transport for NSW, the New Zealand Reserve Bank, and others. You can find the report here (pdf). And while the investigation may be…
Updating the Maze attack on Fairfax County Public Schools
In September, 2020 Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia was hit with Maze ransomware.The attack was announced on Maze’s dedicated leak site in early September, and after multiple queries by this site, FCPS issued a statement confirming that they had been attacked. One month later, the threat actors started dumping some data on their leak…