Kat Jerich reports: The nonprofit Center for Internet Security announced this week that it had launched a no-cost ransomware protection service for private hospitals in the United States. The Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting service, which is already available for public hospitals, health departments and healthcare organizations, uses Enterprise Threat Protector software from the cybersecurity…
Category: Phishing
Hundreds of University of Alabama – Huntsville email accounts compromised through phishing attempts
Anna Mahan reports: Multiple UAH email accounts were compromised through a phishing attempt in January, that’s confirmed by the UAH Office of Information Technology. Some emails impacted did contain personal information such as name, date of birth, or social security number. However, school officials say there was no server or directory impacted and no credit…
MN: School district employees falls for phishing attack; W-2 forms of 677 employees now compromised
David Colburn reports: REGIONAL- ISD 2142 fell prey to a common online phishing scheme on Feb. 4 when a scammer posing as Superintendent Reggie Engebritson used a fraudulent email to obtain the W-2 forms of 677 district employees. Engebritson sent a letter to staff the same day, informing them of the data breach. Read more…
Nigerian National Sentenced to Prison for $11 Million Global Fraud Scheme
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Nigerian national was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. “Through subterfuge and impersonation, Obinwanne Okeke engaged in a multi-year global business email and computer hacking scheme that caused a…
Beware of this active UK NHS COVID-19 vaccination phishing attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, numerous Twitter users began reporting that they received this phishing email, with some being in the right age group to be eligible and…
DENIED! Court REJECTS Motion to Certify Class in Data Breach Alleging Disclosure of Employees’ Sensitive Tax Information
Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Data breach litigations rarely make it to motions for class certification. This trend makes each decision that does come out addressing class certification in the data breach context that much more interesting. Well, last week a federal court denied a plaintiff’s motion to certify a class in…