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Learning Opportunities from Ransomware and Redline Infostealer Events Inside America’s Universities

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Dissent

Britton White writes:  After a university was recently hit with Ransomware, I decided to research the university’s domain name searching for any users who might have been hit with Redline Infostealer/Malware. To no surprise, I found many students had unknowingly had their saved browser credentials scraped (stolen/exfiltrated). It didn’t take long to find a student…

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Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other…

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Blue Earth County releases report on insider data breach that began in 2020

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Dissent

It seems like only yesterday that we were pointing to an insider-wrongdoing breach that involved people’s medical information. Oh right, it was. And here’s yet another one. Aaron Stuve reports: Blue Earth County has released information regarding a data breach from last year. The report said that an employee of the Human Services Department accessed…

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DHS investigators say they foiled cyberattack on undersea internet cable in Hawaii

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Dissent

Meanwhile, last week, AJ Vicens reported: Federal agents in Honolulu last week “disrupted” an apparent cyberattack on an unnamed telecommunication company’s servers associated with an underwater cable responsible for internet, cable service and cell connections in Hawaii and the region, the agency said in a statement Tuesday. Hawaii-based agents with Homeland Security Investigations, an arm…

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Law firm says Deaconess doc viewed women’s personal, medical data without cause

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Dissent

John T. Martin reports on a disturbing case of insider-wrongdoing:  A law firm says it has spoken with at least six women who received an apology letter in recent months from Deaconess Health System stating a physician accessed their medical records without purpose. The firm, Ladendorf Law of Indianapolis, may pursue claims on behalf of those women,…

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Contra Costa County Employee Email Accounts Hacked In Data Breach

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Dissent

Be forewarned: the news story misspells”breach” as “breech.” I couldn’t bring myself to use their headline so fixed that, but am leaving this: Contra Costa County officials have begun sending out letters this week to potential victims of the “unauthorized access to certain county employee email accounts” in a computer breech between July to August…

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