Over the Labor Day weekend, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) experienced a ransomware attack. Although their initial disclosure did not name the ransomware group involved, CISA issued an alert on September 6 about Vice Society attacking the education sector. Two days later, Vice Society acknowledged responsibility for the attack on LAUSD. LAUSD decided…
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SCOOP: Australian national known as “DR32” to stand trial in U.S. on hacking charges
Australia has ordered an Australian national, David Kee Crees, extradited to the U.S., where he faces 22 counts involving hacking, fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Two of Crees’ better-known aliases were “Abdilo” and “DR32.” “Abdilo” DataBreaches started reporting on Crees in 2015 when he was known to this site as “Abdilo.” At the time, he…
HC3: APT41 and Recent Activity
The Office of Information Security and the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) have published a new threat brief on APT41. The brief is TLP:WHITE. Overview Chinese State-Sponsored Threat Actor Members of APT41 have been actively tracked since 2012 Also Known As: Double Dragon, Barium, Winnti, Wicked Panda, Wicked Spider, TG-2633, Bronze Atlas, Red Kelpie…
ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware family becoming more dangerous
Alex Scroxton reports: The developer or developers behind the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) family known variously as ALPHV, BlackCat and Noberus, have been hard at work refining their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and today are probably more dangerous than ever before, according to intelligence from Symantec. The ALPHV/BlackCat/Noberus operation – which Symantec tracks as Coreid (aka FIN7, Carbon Spider)…
UK: Six UK schools hit by cyberattack on multi-academy trust
Matthew Gooding reports: A cyberattack on a multi-academy trust which runs schools serving 4,500 pupils has left staff without access to digital systems for more than a week, Tech Monitor understands. The Scholars’ Education Trust suffered the breach last week, and at the time of writing many of its internal systems remain offline. The trust runs six schools in…
UK: Email blunder sees school send details of vulnerable children to all pupils
David Hannant reports: Parents are calling for an investigation into a Norfolk school after an email containing confidential details of students’ mental health was mistakenly sent to all pupils. Wymondham High Academy has confirmed a staff member accidentally sent a message containing information about children who were referred to its wellbeing services with anxiety to the entire school. Read more at…