From HHS, a settlement notice involving one of thedarkoverlord’s victims. Athens Orthopedic Clinic is still facing a lawsuit from patients that made it all the way up to the Georgia Supreme Court on the issue of whether they had demonstrated enough harm to survive a motion to dismiss. Note: This blogger is the journalist referenced…
Category: Of Note
Cyber Claim Trends Outlined in Coalition Report
Linn F. Freedman of Robinson & Cole writes: Cyber liability insurers are in a good position to provide insight into the types of cyber incidents that are hitting the industry. Coalition, a provider of cyber insurance globally, which “serves over 25,000 small and midsize organizations across every sector of the US and Canada,” issued its…
Maze attackers adopt Ragnar Locker virtual machine technique
Andrew Brandt and Peter Mackenzie of Sophos report: While conducting an investigation into an attack in July in which the attackers repeatedly attempted to infect computers with Maze ransomware, analysts with Sophos’ Managed Threat Response (MTR) discovered that the attackers had adopted a technique pioneered by the threat actors behind Ragnar Locker earlier this year,…
Cyber security breach at National Informatics Centre, malware attack traced to Bengaluru
ET reports: Breaching cyber security a malware attack on 100 computers of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) was reported on Friday. The government’s nodal agency NIC is responsible for securing critical cyber-infrastructure in the country and comes under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Read more on ET.
Ca: Regina clinic failed to notify patients of privacy breach, says commissioner
Mark Melnychuk reports: An investigation by Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner found that a Regina medical clinic did not notify patients when a doctor’s dictation machine containing personal health information went missing a year ago. According to the report filed on Sept. 15, Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Ronald J. Kruzeniski wrote that his office was notified…
Partners in crime: North Koreans and elite Russian-speaking cybercriminals
New post by Mark Arena of Intel471 begins: This blog post takes a look at the credibility of claims in public reports of North Korean (referred to as DPRK for the rest of this post) links to Russian-speaking cybercriminals. The post is based as much as possible on public and open sources from credible parties…