The SITA breach that also impacted 580,000 Singapore Airlines customers is getting more attention as more and more airlines issue statements to their customers. Now my friends are even sending me emails they receive from airlines. You can read SITA’s disclosure on their site.
At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software
Brian Krebs reports: At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The espionage…
New ransomware only decrypts victims who join their Discord server
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new ransomware called ‘Hog’ encrypts users’ devices and only decrypts them if they join the developer’s Discord server. This week, security researcher MalwareHunterTeam found an in-development decryptor for the Hog Ransomware that requires victims to join their Discord server to decrypt their files. Read more on BleepingComputer.
US indicts John McAfee for cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering
Sergiu Gatlan reports: U.S. federal prosecutors have charged John McAfee, founder of cybersecurity firm McAfee, and his executive advisor Jimmy Gale Watson Jr for cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering. In total, McAfee, Watson, and other members of the McAfee Team were able to collect over $13 million from two cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes, according to court documents….
SC: Sandhills Medical Foundation notifies patients of vendor breach
Updated 3/6/2021: Sandhills reported this incident to Maine as impacting 39,602 patients, total. Original Post: Sandhills Medical Foundation has posted a notice of a data security incident on their web site, reproduced below. Based on the dates and description, it appears that this is the Netgain Technology LLC data breach that has previously been noted…
Idaho man charged with hacking into the computers of the City of Newnan and metro-Atlanta medical clinics
It appears that law enforcement has caught up with “Lifelock.” DataBreaches.net had reported exclusively on “Lifelock” back in April of 2018, and then again in June and July of 2018. At the time, I pointed out some of the striking similarities between “Lifelock” and “thedarkoverlord” (or the one I refer to as the first spokesperson…