Mark Feuerborn and Isabel Cleary report: Columbus’ massive data leak has been described as a ransomware attack, but the city’s head of technology revealed something new Monday night about the incident: not only was there no ransom, attempts to negotiate with the hackers behind it went unanswered. The Columbus City Council was on break through August,…
Malta’s Prime Minister Announces Legal Reform To Safeguard Ethical Hacking
Tim Diacono reports: Prime Minister Robert Abela announced plans to update the law to safeguard and regulate the practice of ‘white hat’ ethical hacking. In an interview on ONE this morning, Abela warned that a gap exists in the country’s legislative framework surrounding ethical hacking and cybersecurity. The Malta Digital Innovation Authority has drafted proposed…
Vitalii Antonenko pleads guilty to hacking and other charges
There’s an update to the case of Vitalii Antonenko, whose case was noted on this site in 2020. Shore News Network reports: Vitalii Antonenko, a 32-year-old New York City resident, pleaded guilty on Thursday to multiple conspiracies involving computer hacking, trafficking stolen credit card information, and laundering the illicit proceeds. Antonenko entered his guilty plea…
West Virginia law enforcement sues data broker for publishing personal information online
Suzanne Smalley reports: Whitepages is the latest data broker to be sued for allegedly flouting laws barring the publication of home addresses and other personal information belonging to judges, police officers, prosecutors and others in law enforcement. A retired West Virginia police officer filed a class action lawsuit against the company late last month for publishing his…
Russian Military Cyber Actors Target U.S. and Global Critical Infrastructure
From a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) assess that cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155) are responsible for computer network operations against global targets for the purposes…
Late Discovery: CMS and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation notify 947k of last year’s MOVEit data breach
Susan Morse reports: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation are mailing written notifications to 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information may have been compromised in a cyber breach. A security vulnerability was found in MOVEit software, a third-party application used in the transfer…