The Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has had its name cross my desk a lot this past year. And that’s not a good thing. There have been five Cancer Treatment Centers of America breach notices that have been publicly disclosed since November 2018. Three of them involved the Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Atlanta,…
Category: Phishing
University of Alabama at Birmingham Data Breach Exposes Information Of Thousands Of Patients
Feroze Dhanoa reports: Hackers gained access to some UAB Medicine employee email accounts exposing the protected health information of 20,000 patients, the hospital said this week. UAB Medicine is notifying the affected patients that their information could have potentially been seen by the hackers. Read more on Patch
WA: Tukwila School District victim of a phishing scam
KING5 News reports: The Tukwila School District is the apparent victim of a “phishing scam,” district officials said in a statement Tuesday. “We are not at liberty to reveal additional information at this time but are working closely with proper authorities,” the statement read. Read more on KING5.
Nigerian National Appears On Charges Relating To Computer Hacking Scheme That Targeted Government Employees
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, yesterday: NEWARK, N.J. – A Nigerian national extradited from Canada will appear in court today for his alleged role in a scheme that defrauded vendors of office products valued at nearly $1 million by “phishing” e-mail login information from government employees, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced….
New evasive spear phishing attacks bypass email security measures
Katie Donegan reports: Attackers are playing the long game. Their newest phishing adaption is a product of monthslong intelligence gathering and social engineering — and it’s already being put into action. Dubbed evasive spear phishing, this new category of email security threat was discovered by investigating more than 25 million email attachments. Detailed in a…
Phishing attacks on Mac users doubling; here’s what to watch for
Ben Lovejoy reports: Phishing attacks reaching macOS users look set to more than double this year, with emails specifically claiming to be from Apple growing at 30%-40% per year. […] Kaspersky says that its figures reflect only attacks on Macs running its own security software — many of which are in corporate environments — suggesting…