Over on Suspect File, Marco A. De Felice has an exclusive on an attack by Medusa on Levare International, formerly known as Borets International. Levare, headquartered in Dubai, is a manufacturer of artificial lifts and submersible pumps used by the oil and gas industry. Its U.S. headquarters is in Houston, Texas. Suspect File reports that…
One year later, Tift Regional Medical Center notifies patients of Hive attack
In September 2022, DataBreaches broke the story of how Hive had attacked Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia between July and August. The attack did not involve encryption of systems but Hive claimed to have exfiltrated about 1 TB of data, including files with protected health information. On October 14, Tift notified HHS of an…
IN: Cummins Behavioral Health Systems discovers cyberattack when it finds ransom note
Sometime between Feb. 2 and March 9 of this year, Cummins Behavioral Health Systems (CBHS) in Indiana became a victim of a cyberattack. CBHS is a private not-for-profit organization providing behavioral health services in Boone, Hendricks, Marion, Montgomery, Putnam, and surrounding counties in Central and West Central Indiana. It provides care to persons of all…
EvilProxy Cyberattack Flood Targets Execs via Microsoft 365
Elizabeth Montalbano reports: Attackers have unleashed an EvilProxy phishing campaign to target thousands of Microsoft 365 user accounts worldwide, sending a flood of 120,000 phishing emails to more than 100 organizations across the globe in the three-month period between March and June alone. The goal? To take over C-suite and other executive accounts, in order to…
How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: In 2016, hackers using a network of compromised internet-connected devices — vulnerable security cameras and routers — knocked some of the then biggest websites on the internet offline for several hours. Twitter, Reddit, GitHub and Spotify all went down intermittently that day, victims of what was at the time one of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks…
US cyber body to review cloud computing safety, Microsoft breach
Reuters reports: August 11 — A U.S. cyber safety body will review issues relating to cloud-based identity and authentication infrastructure that will include an assessment of a recent Microsoft (MSFT.O) breach that led to the theft of emails from U.S. government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday. The review by the Cyber…