Jack Dowling reports: A vendor associated with Seton Medical Center in Harker Heights was recently the victim of a phishing incident, according to a news release from the hospital late Friday afternoon. According to the center, an unauthorized agent accessed the email accounts of two of the vendor’s employees. Read more at KDH News.
City ‘inadvertently’ shares personal information, breaches privacy in mass-email to hundreds of Hamilton voters
Matthew Van Dongen reports: The city says it “inadvertently” breached the privacy of 450 people by leaving names and personal email addresses visible in a mass email to Hamilton residents who registered to vote by mail in the looming election. Upset residents started posting online Thursday night about the screw-up, which the city acknowledged is a…
New Mexico’s Cybersecurity Office Investigating Unauthorized Access To Information Systems At State Agency
The Department of Information Technology’s (DoIT) Cybersecurity office is investigating unauthorized access at the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department (RLD). The state continues to investigate the situation, but is confident that any unauthorized access has been isolated and mitigated. Read more at Los Alamos Daily Post.
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Es-CT: Update on Consorci Sanitari Integral Attack by RansomExx Last week, DataBreaches reported an attack on the Consorci Sanitari Integral (CSI) system of hospitals and health centers in Catalonia. Since then, RansomExx claimed responsibility for the attack and claims to have 54 GB of files that include DNI and medical information of patients and employees….
Australian police secret agents exposed in Colombian data leak by Guacamaya
For the past few weeks, @Chum1ng0 has been reporting on the Guacamaya hacktivists’ activities. They have already caused some consternation and problems in Mexico and Chile. Now there is an even more concerning aspect to the leaks. Bill Toulas reports: Identities of secret agents working for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have been exposed after…
Magniber Ransomware Adopts JavaScript to Attack Individual Users
Beth Maundrill reports: Recent analysis shows that Magniber ransomware has been targeting home users by masquerading as software updates. A ransomware campaign isolated by HP Wolf Security in September 2022 saw Magniber ransomware spread. The malware is known as a single-client ransomware family that demands $2,500 from victims. Previously Magniber was primarily spread through MSI and EXE files, but…