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Marquette County Medical Care Facility discloses data breach

Posted on June 24, 2025June 24, 2025 by Dissent

Marquette County Medical Care Facility (MCMCF) has issued a statement about a breach they discovered in March 2025. On March 3, 2025, MCMCF became aware of the business email compromise incident when contacts of MCMCF’s Human Resources director began receiving phishing emails from her Microsoft Office 365 (O365) account. The types of information involved included…

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Russia Expert Falls Prey to Elite Hackers Disguised as US Officials

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Dissent

Kevin Poireault reports: Keir Giles, a British expert on Russian information operations, has been targeted by a sophisticated spear phishing attack using novel social engineering techniques. The writer and senior consulting fellow at the UK think tank Chatham House was lured into sending app-specific passwords to someone impersonating a US State Department employee. The Google…

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FIN6 cybercriminals pose as job seekers on LinkedIn to hack recruiters

Posted on June 12, 2025 by Dissent

This may make it a bit harder for those legitimately seeking jobs on LinkedIn. Daryna Antoniuk reports: Cybercriminals from the long-running FIN6 group are posing as job seekers on platforms like LinkedIn to infect recruiters with malware delivered through fake resumes, according to a new report. Recruitment scams are common among cybercrime gangs, but this…

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100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in £47m phishing attack on HMRC

Posted on June 5, 2025June 5, 2025 by Dissent

Nadeem Badshah reports: HM Revenue and Customs has lost £47m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard. Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted,…

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Russian-linked hackers target UK Defense Ministry while posing as journalists

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Dissent

Martin Fornusek reports: Russian-linked hackers targeted U.K. Defense Ministry staff in an espionage operation while posing as journalists, Sky News reported on May 29, citing the British government. The cyber attack was detected and thwarted, the government said. Speaking to reporters at a government facility where a team had disrupted the Russian-backed operation, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey revealed the…

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Fresno County fell victim to $1.6M phishing scam in 2020. One suspected has been arrested, another has been indicted.

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Dissent

Gabriel Dillard reports: Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday with six counts of wire fraud stemming from a $1.6 million phishing scheme against the County of Fresno. Jafaar September Nyangoro, 52, of Franklin, Tennessee, and Peter Bah Acha, 45 of Berlin, Germany, are accused of secretly gaining control of an email…

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