Riley Griffin reports: Hackers stole millions of dollars in grant money from the Department of Health and Human Services last year in a series of attacks, according to two people familiar with the matter. Between late March and mid-November, the hackers gained access to an HHS system that processes civilian grant payments and withdrew about $7.5 million intended…
Category: U.S.
Microsoft says Russian government hackers stole email from its leaders
Joseph Menn reports: Microsoft said hackers working for the Russian government broke into its corporate networks two months ago and stole email from executives and some employees in its cybersecurity and legal departments. Microsoft said in a late Friday blog post that it had detected the November breach on Jan. 12 and was beginning to notify staffers…
Primary Health & Wellness Center, LLC’s public notice of ransomware incident
In the process of researching breach reports submitted to HHS, DataBreaches came across a public notice for an incident affecting Primary Health & Wellness Center, LLC in Maryland. The covered entity is to be commended for the details and transparency in their notice, although they do not name the threat actor/group involved or any details…
Raptor Technologies’ unsecured blob exposure was worse than they acknowledged. Here’s what we know — and don’t know — so far.
On January 11, DataBreaches noted a concerning blob exposure discovered by Jerome Fowler and first reported by vpnMentor. As WIRED’s Matt Burgess reported: Last month, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered 800 gigabytes of files and logs linked to school software provider Raptor Technologies. The firm provides software that allows schools to track student attendance, monitor…
CISA pushes federal agencies to patch Citrix RCE within a week
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Today, CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against three recently patched Citrix NetScaler and Google Chrome zero-days actively exploited in attacks, pushing for a Citrix RCE bug to be patched within a week. The cybersecurity agency added the flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog today, saying that such vulnerabilities are “frequent attack…
Cloud Vendor Returns North Star Health Alliance Data Stolen and Stored by LockBit
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A cloud services firm has turned over to a New York hospital alliance the patient data stolen in an August ransomware attack by the notorious LockBit gang. The hospital group – North Star Health Alliance – had filed a lawsuit against LockBit in November as a legal maneuver to force the…