Another day, another successful phishing attack in the healthcare sector. From the web site of Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta: Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta (“GSO”) was a recent victim of an email “phishing” scam that resulted in unauthorized access to an employee’s email account. “Phishing” involves scammers sending emails that look legitimate,…
Category: Phishing
TN: Unauthorized users could have accessed private information of 7,700 people following ETSU breach
Jordan Moore reports: A data breach impacting employees at East Tennessee State University remains under investigation. University officials tell News Channel 11 that two unidentified employees clicked on a link in the phishing scam that was sent to their e-mail accounts. ETSU Spokesperson, Joe Smith, elaborated on that phishing scam e-mail Monday afternoon. Read more…
Heads up, folks
Fake Black Friday apps and websites are now out in full force.
New York Oncology Hematology notifying more than 128,400 employees and patients after phishing attack
Albany-based New York Oncology Hematology is notifying more than 128,400 employees and patients after discovering that 14 employees fell prey to phishing attacks in April. Although forensic invesgtigation did not find any clear evidence that attackers accessed employee or patient data in the employees’ email accounts, NYOH decided to notify everyone. As part of their web…
Russian APT comes back to life with new US spear-phishing campaign
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Russian state-sponsored cyber-espionage group has come back to life after a one-year period of inactivity with a relative large spear-phishing campaign that has targeted both the US government and private sector. The hacking group is known in infosec circles as Cozy Bear, APT29, The Dukes, or PowerDuke, and is infamous because…
NL: Internet con men ripped off Pathe NL for €19m in business email compromise
Heads rolled in this one, when executives did not spot or prevent business email compromise. As reported by DutchNews.nl: The Dutch operation of the Pathé cinema group was ripped off by internet con men to the tune of over €19m, court documents published on Friday show. The con cost both the chief executive and financial…