Brian Krebs reports: R1 RCM Inc. [NASDAQ:RCM], one of the nation’s largest medical debt collection companies, has been hit in a ransomware attack. Formerly known as Accretive Health Inc., Chicago-based R1 RCM brought in revenues of $1.18 billion in 2019. The company has more than 19,000 employees and contracts with at least 750 healthcare organizations nationwide. Read…
Hacker leaks data for U.S. gun exchange site on cybercrime forum
Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange, hunting, and kratom sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a threat actor posted databases that they claim contain 195,000 user records for the utahgunexchange.com, 45,000 records for their video site, 15,000 records from the hunting site muleyfreak.com, and 24,000…
Aarogya Setu vulnerable? Drama over data firm’s contention
Binayak Dasgupta reports: A cyber security firm said on Wednesday that it stumbled upon large parts of the government’s contact tracing app Aarogya Setu’s code and back-end components that could jeopardise the privacy of 150 million users after a government website appeared to have inadvertently uploaded log-in credentials used by the developers, triggering a war of words…
For six months, security researchers have secretly distributed an Emotet vaccine across the world
Catalin Cimpanu reports on a rare bit of good news on the malware front, although the threat actors appear to have gotten the upper hand again: In the cyber-security industry, there’s a very dangerous moral line when it comes to exploiting bugs in malware, a line many security companies won’t cross, fearing they might end…
Jack Daniel’s Manufacturer Was Target of Apparent Ransomware Attack
Jordan Robertson reports: Brown-Forman Corp., a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages including Jack Daniel’s and Finlandia, said it was hit by a cyber-attack in which some information, including employee data, may have been impacted. The company, which is based in Louisville, Kentucky, said in a statement it was able to prevent its systems from being encrypted,…
Texas Man Sentenced to 57 Months for Computer Hacking and Aggravated Identity Theft
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of New York, yesterday, an update on a previously reported case: ALBANY, NEW YORK –Tyler C. King, age 31, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of a New York-based technology company….