Sean Hemmersmeier reports: A healthcare employee was the subject of a phishing email attack that exposed some medical records for approximately 12,000 patients, including patients of cardiology practice in St. George, according to a press release sent out by healthcare company Revere Health on Friday. The employee’s email was breached for roughly 45 minutes on…
Category: Phishing
Fraud Family phishing-as-a-service disrupted in the Netherlands
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Police officers arrested a 24-year-old man from the city of Arnhem and a 15-year-old boy from the town of Loenen aan de Vecht. Investigators said the former developed the phishing kits, while the latter had been responsible for selling access to the tools developed by his partner. Police also searched the house…
ClearBalance notifying more than 209,000 patients who have medical expense loans
Many readers may never have heard of CSI Financial Services, LLC but as ClearBalance, the California firm services loans made by hospitals and providers to patients who need to finance medical expenses. A recent filing with the Maine Attorney General’s Office reveals that beginning on March 8, there was unauthorized access to some employee email…
Moroccan hacker Dr HeX arrested for phishing attacks, malware distribution
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Moroccan authorities arrested a suspect known in underground hacking circles as “Dr HeX” on accusations of orchestrating a 12-year-old cybercrime spree that included website defacements, phishing attacks, and malware distribution, Interpol announced today. The arrest took place in May this year and was announced today as part of Interpol’s Operation Lyrebird. In a blog…
Hackety hack hack…
There are so many breach reports that it’s hard to even find all the notices and reports about them these days. These days, there are many breaches that I log in worksheets I compile for Protenus’s Breach Barometer annual report but never even post on this blog. Just today, for example, I found: a notice…
Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode
Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent. Becky Bracken reports: Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A new report found a stunning 974-percent spike in social-engineering scams involving suggestive materials, usually aimed at male-sounding names within a company. The Threat Intelligence team…