Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent. Becky Bracken reports: Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A new report found a stunning 974-percent spike in social-engineering scams involving suggestive materials, usually aimed at male-sounding names within a company. The Threat Intelligence team…
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OH: Five Rivers Health Centers notified 155,748 patients after phishing incident
On May 28, Five Rivers Health Centers in Ohio notified HHS about a data security incident that impacted 155,748 patients. The following is their media notice, linked from the home page of their web site if you can find it (see attached, where I highlighted the location of the link on their home page). DataBreaches.net…
Chief Operating Officer of Network Security Company Charged with Cyberattack on Medical Center
Note: It seems possible that the incident described in DOJ’s press release below is the incident reported by Salted Hash and DataBreaches.net in 2018. According to Singla’s LinkedIn account, he was COO at Securolytics in Atlanta at the time of the Gwinnett breach. A Georgia man was arraigned today on charges arising out of a…
The Ruthless Cyber Gang Behind the Hospital Ransomware Crisis
Kevin Poulsen and Melanie Evans report on Ryuk threat actors: A ransomware attack on a national hospital chain nearly brought Las Vegas hospitals to their knees. Another attack in Oregon abruptly shut down alerts tied to patient monitors tracking vital signs. In New York, one county’s only trauma center briefly closed to ambulances, with the…
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
This story was originally published by ProPublica and is reproduced with permission. While many are focused on the societal implications, remember that this incident involves a data breach or leak. Was this an insider/whistleblower leak or something else? They report, “ProPublica is not disclosing how it obtained the data, which was given to us in…
Former Chiropractor Found Guilty of Health Care Fraud Charges that She Schemed to Defraud Health Insurers Out of $2.2 Million
A former Orange County chiropractor was found guilty by a jury today of federal criminal charges accusing her of defrauding health insurers by fraudulently submitting and causing to be billed $2.2 million in billings for chiropractic services never provided, bogus medical diagnoses, office visits that never occurred, and medical devices falsely prescribed. Susan H. Poon,…