Ananya Bhattacharya reports: The disruptions to Microsoft’s services earlier this month were indeed the result of hacks, the software giant has admitted. In a blogpost Friday (June 16), the Redmond, Washington-based tech behemoth attributed the “surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability” to the “ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks…
Chinese nation-state actor behind Barracuda ESG attacks
Kyle Alspach reports: Mandiant ‘assesses with high confidence’ that state-backed Chinese hackers carried out attacks on customers of Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway Hackers working for China’s government are the likely culprits behind the recent cyberattack campaign targeting customers who use Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway, according to prominent incident response firm Mandiant. The attacks, which have…
BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data
As if Reddit wasn’t already having serious issues these days, they have allegedly been hacked by AlphV (aka BlackCat), who write: Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16. There was no…
Healthcare and Public Health Sector Cybersecurity Notification: #TimisoaraHackerTeam Analysis
June 16 – #TimisoaraHackerTeam Analysis TLP: Clear
Ie: Data breach at Public Appointments Service involving 15,000 people
Emmet Ryan reports: The personal information of 15,471 candidates for public roles has been released in error by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). A message was sent to the affected candidates through the publicjobs.ie portal notifying the candidates affected their names and jobs alert notifications they had subscribed to may have been provided to other…
US Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims
Reuters reports: WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of Energy got ransom requests from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and scientific education facility that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign, a spokesperson said on Friday. The DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the…