Over on AdvIntel, Tyler Combs has a post about threat actors attacking law firms. Many of us are already aware of a number of law firms who have been attacked and who have had their firm’s files dumped publicly when they refused to pay ransom demands, but if the biggest law firms fall prey, what…
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mHealth Apps Expose Millions to Cyberattacks
Becky Bracken reports: Some 23 million mobile health (mHealth) application users are exposed to application programming interface (API) attacks that could expose sensitive information, according to researchers. Generally speaking, APIs are an intermediary between applications that defines how they can talk to one another and allowing them to swap information. Researcher Alissa Knight with Approov…
Terrorist hackers target Atlassian & Oracle servers
Edward Kost writes: Volatile Cedar, a cybercriminal group affiliated with the Hezbollah Cyber Unit, has resurfaced after disappearing for almost 6 years. The criminal group was suddenly illuminated on the radar after suspicious activity on Oracle and Atlassian servers was discovered. Volatile cedar breached unpatched Atlassian and Oracle servers by exploiting the following vulnerabilities – CVE-2012-3152, CVE-2019-11581,…
The Netherlands: 440,000 EUR fine for hospital for inadequate authentication and logging
Demi Rietveld and Richard van Schaik of DLA Piper write: The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “Dutch DPA”) has published its decision to impose an administrative fine of EUR 440,000 on Amsterdam hospital OLVG due to the lack of sufficient measures to prevent access to medical records by unauthorised personnel. After complaints, the Dutch…
WeChat Data Leak Leads To Arrest Of Tencent Executive Zhang Feng
Cullen Paradis reports: Zhang Feng, an executive at China’s most valuable public company Tencent Holdings, has been detained by authorities in connection to a data leak and corruption scandal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Zhang is accused of sending user data from the messaging app juggernaut WeChat to Sun Lijun, the former vice public security minister now…
11th Circuit’s strict new rule for data breach standing will figure in Equifax appeal
Alison Frankel reports: Shiyang Huang is not a lawyer. Nor is he a professional objector who makes a living from demanding payments to drop filing vexatious objections to class action appeals. By his account, he’s just a pro se litigant from Topeka who doesn’t think federal courts should be called upon to adjudicate claims by…