Muskogee City County Enhanced 911 Trust Authority (“MCC911”) confirmed yesterday that it experienced a ransomware attack earlier this year. According to a press release, MCC911 first detected unusual system activity on July 25, 2024 that indicated they had been the victims of a ransomware attack. MCC911 immediately began an investigation and took steps to contain…
Youth hostels apparently victims of ransomware gang Hunters International
Dirk Knop reports: Around three weeks ago, the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH), which includes around 450 youth hostels, experienced computer problems, as reported by regional media. According to these reports, the hostels’ servers went down on August 30. Now the ransomware group Hunters has claimed on the darknet to have broken into the youth hostels and…
1 in 10 German orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage
Connor Jones reports: Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike’s outage in July are dropping their current vendor’s products. Four percent of organizations have already abandoned their existing solutions, while a further 6 percent plan to do so in the near future. It wasn’t…
Hacker uses Telegram chatbots to leak data of top Indian insurer Star Health
Christopher Bing and Munsif Vengattil report: Stolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after Telegram’s founder was accused of allowing the messenger app to facilitate crime. The purported creator of the chatbots told a security researcher, who alerted Reuters to…
Nearly 1/3 of ransomware victims had at least one infostealer infection in preceding months — researchers
Some food for thought from a report by SpyCloud: MASSIVE SCALE OF IDENTITY EXPOSURES CREATES NEW RISKS The scale of identity exposure due to infostealers is massive: 61% of breaches last year were malware-related and responsible for 343.78 million stolen credentials. Our recaptured data also shows that as many as 1 in 5 people are…
Indictment Charges Two in $230 Million Cryptocurrency Scam
lamserrano_indictment_24cr417.pdf WASHINGTON – An indictment was unsealed today charging Malone Lam, 20, of Miami, FL and Los Angeles, CA, and Jeandiel Serrano, 21, of Los Angeles, CA, with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency from a victim in Washington, D.C. Lam, a citizen of Singapore…