In November, 2019, Canadian testing laboratory provider LifeLabs disclosed a data breach. In February, 2020, it tried to block regulators from accessing a report on the breach prepared for it by Crowdstrike. Today, the B.C. and Ontario privacy commissioners released their report on the incident. It was highly critical of LifeLabs. Knowing that the report…
Personal Data of 350,000+ Social Media Influencers and Users Compromised Following Preen.Me Hack
RBS notes: The personal information of an estimated 100,000+ social media influencers has been compromised and partially leaked, following the breach of social media marketing company, Preen.Me. Furthermore, as a result of this breach, over 250,000 social media users have had their information fully exposed on a deep web hacking forum. Based in Tel Aviv, Preen.Me…
FBI warns K12 schools of ransomware attacks via RDP
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation sent out on Tuesday a security alert to K12 schools about the increase in ransomware attacks during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and especially about ransomware gangs that abuse RDP connections to break into school systems. The alert, called a Private Industry Notification, or PIN, tells schools…
Data stolen from Silicon Valley consulting firm offered for sale on hacker forum
Duncan Riley reports: Business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan Inc. has suffered a data breach and data stolen from the firm appeared for sale on a hacker forum. The Mountain View, California-based company has a global presence with 40 offices across six continents. It offers services such as market research, analysis, growth strategy consulting and corporate…
If you needed yet one more example of the risks of PHI in employee email accounts
I’m not sure what it might take to get a real shift in how entities approach security of employee email accounts. Despite known risks of phishing and hacks, a tremendous amount of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) resides in emails or email attachments in employee accounts. Read the following chronology provided…
Evil Corp deploys new WastedLocker ransomware
Dennis Fisher writes: The Russian attack group responsible for distributing the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware and was the target of sanctions from the Department of Justice last year has reemerged with a new strain of ransomware called WastedLocker and an updated distribution framework to install it on victims’ machines. […] The new variant does…