A recent listing on LockBit’s leak site about Crinetics Pharmaceuticals seemed unusual. It included a disclaimer: “Those responsible for the exfiltration of data belonging to this victim have no association, indirect or direct, with the Lockbit group.” If those who exfiltrated the data had no association with LockBit, why was the listing on LockBit’s site?…
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Cyber Safety Review Board Releases Report on Microsoft Online Exchange Incident from Summer 2023
CSRB’s Third Review Focuses on Actions Microsoft, Other Cloud Providers, and the U.S. Government Should Take to Protect Cloud Customers WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the Cyber Safety Review Board’s (CSRB) findings and recommendations following its independent review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion. The review detailed operational and…
Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years
Jagmeet Singh reports: The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch he found at least hundreds of documents containing citizens’ personal information — including Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination data, and passport details — spilling online for anyone to…
Ernest Health rehabilitation hospitals notify patients of ransom attack in January (2)
As of this morning, more than a dozen rehabilitation hospitals have disclosed a breach with unauthorized access to their systems between January 16 and February 4. The intrusion was discovered on February 1. The attack resulted in access to patient data that included names and at least one of “addresses, birth dates, medical record numbers,…
This may be the worst ID theft case you’ve ever read about
KCRG Staff report: A former Iowa City hospital administrator pleaded guilty on Monday to an identity theft scheme that spanned three decades and caused the victim to be falsely imprisoned for nearly two years. Officials said 58-year-old Matthew Keirans, from Hartland, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to one count of false statement to a national credit union…
CISA Alert: Reported Supply Chain Compromise Affecting XZ Utils Data Compression Library, CVE-2024-3094
CISA Alert of March 29, 2024: CISA and the open source community are responding to reports of malicious code being embedded in XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. This activity was assigned CVE-2024-3094. XZ Utils is data compression software and may be present in Linux distributions. The malicious code may allow unauthorized access to affected systems….