Joshua Irvine reports: The business manager of Grand Forks Public Schools said Monday the $2.2 million swindled from the district earlier this year was taken in a phishing scheme. […] In the four days leading up to the Sept. 13 fraud event, the district’s business office made more than a thousand payments, according to records…
Category: Phishing
5 Alleged Members of Scattered Spider Charged Federally (1)
LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement today unsealed criminal charges against five defendants who allegedly targeted employees of companies nationwide with phishing text messages and then used the harvested employee credentials to log in and steal non-public company data and information and to hack into virtual currency accounts to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The following…
INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia II took down 22,000 malicious IP addresses
From an INTERPOL announcement yessterday: A global INTERPOL operation has taken down more than 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats. Operation Synergia II (1 April – 31 August 2024) specifically targeted phishing, ransomware and information stealers and was a joint effort from INTERPOL, private sector partners and law enforcement agencies from…
ESET partner breached to send data wipers to Israeli orgs
Lawrence Abrams reports: Hackers breached ESET’s exclusive partner in Israel to send phishing emails to Israeli businesses that pushed data wipers disguised as antivirus software for destructive attacks. A data wiper is malware that intentionally deletes all of the files on a computer and commonly removes or corrupts the partition table to make it harder to…
Payroll-related cyberattack led to breach of Mass. state workers’ information, comptroller says
Frank O’Laughlin reports: An investigation is underway after a payroll-related cyberattack led to “unauthorized access” to online payroll accounts and direct deposit information of some state workers, Massachusetts Comptroller William McNamara announced Wednesday night. The Commonwealth is investigating the breach as an apparent “credential harvesting campaign” involving the state’s HR/CMS Employee Self-Service Time and Attendance…
HHS Office for Civil Rights Imposes a $240,000 Civil Monetary Penalty Against Providence Medical Institute in HIPAA Ransomware Cybersecurity Investigation
In April 20218, DataBreaches reported a ransomware incident in February 2018 that had affected 81,550 patients of the Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) – Providence Medical Institute (PMI) in California. The entity’s notification at the time indicated that patients’ names, dates of birth, details about medical records, and Social Security numbers had been involved in the…