Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and the Visuals Team at CNN report: Imagine a world where your entire family has been detained or imprisoned, but you can’t find out why, or for how long. The police also have your DNA, voice samples and iris scans on file — along with biometric data on your children, your…
Ie: MTU obtains temporary emergency injunction against BlackCat; Order prohibits anyone from leaking or publishing any confidential data
There is a new development affecting Munster Technological University in Ireland. The school, which disclosed a ransomware incident on February 5, reportedly informed the High Court that AlphV/BlackCat was responsible for the attack, and a high ransom was being demanded. MTU told the court they would not be paying any ransom. The amount of the…
City of Oakland Targeted by Ransomware Attack, Core Services Not Affected
The City of Oakland has learned that it was recently subject to a ransomware attack that began on Wednesday night. The Information Technology Department is coordinating with law enforcement and actively investigating the scope and severity of the issue. Our core functions are intact. 911, financial data, and fire and emergency resources are not impacted….
Penang government data leaked online
Predeep Nambiar reports: Over 600,000 “rows of private data” from the Penang government’s official website have allegedly been stolen and uploaded onto the internet. The data was uploaded to a forum known as BreachForums by a user with the handle “LeakBase” on Jan 18, who said it was available for download. Read more at Free…
Clop ransomware claims to be behind GoAnywhere zero-day attacks
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Clop ransomware gang claims to be behind recent attacks that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool, saying they stole data from over 130 organizations. The security flaw, now tracked as CVE-2023-0669, enables attackers to gain remote code execution on unpatched GoAnywhere MFT instances with their administrative…
Employee personal data exposed in NJ school district cyber breach
Dan Alexander reports: A New Jersey public school district’s data breach in December exposed personal data of employees — but those affected were not notified until the end of January. The breach occurred in the Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District between Dec. 10 and 12 and exposed the names and Social Security numbers of district employees and…