Robert Sanchez reports: Personal and tax information for more than 1,700 current and former employees of the College of DuPage may have been impacted by a recent data security breach, officials at the Glen Ellyn school said Monday. President Brian Caputo said officials believe it’s unlikely the information contained in the 2018 W-2 forms of…
Wichita State University notifying 1,762 Iowans whose personal info was accessed by hacker
2019 was a difficult year for Wichita State University in terms of cybersecurity. They started the year with a phishing incident that stole some employees’ paychecks, and it seems that they ended the year with another incident. As their external counsel wrote on March 10: In December 2019, WSU learned of a security incident involving…
Coronavirus: Cybercriminals target healthcare workers with email scam
Rowland Manthorpe reports: Cybercriminal gangs are targeting healthcare professionals with phishing emails about “coronavirus awareness” – part of a wave of scams capitalising on the pandemic. Sky News has seen a copy of an email scam sent to a number of healthcare organisations that pretends to be from each firm’s internal IT team. The email…
The Cyber Intelligence Analyst’s Cookbook
There’s a new — and free — OSINT resource from Open Source Researchers that I want to let you all know about: The Cyber Intelligence Analyst’s Cookbook Volume 1 : A primer for Open Source Intelligence Collection and Applied Research An excerpt from the Preface: Anyways, I started with this brain dump of my process…
PXJ Ransomware Campaign Identified by X-Force IRIS
Megan Roddie and Limor Kessem write: In a recent analysis from IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), our team discovered activity related to a new strain of ransomware known as “PXJ” ransomware. This malware is also known as “XVFXGW” ransomware. The name PXJ is derived from the file extension that is appended to…
ZA: Eskom’s IT systems still slow after data centre ‘incident’
ITWeb reports: Power utility Eskom’s IT systems are still slow after the parastatal suffered a data centre “incident” last week. The embattled power utility last week announced it had experienced an “incident” at its data centre, which saw the business implement business continuity plans to ensure minimal interruptions. In new a statement, the parastatal says it experienced…