Murray Brewster reports: The Canadian branch of Amnesty International was the target of a sophisticated cyber-security breach this fall — an attack forensic investigators believe originated in China with the blessing of the government in Beijing. The intrusion was first detected on October 5, the human rights group said Monday. The attack showed signs of being the…
Iran Arrests News Agency Deputy After Reported Cyberattack
AFP reports: Iran has arrested the deputy chief editor of Fars news agency, state media said, more than a week after the agency was reportedly hit by a cyberattack. “The deputy head of Fars news agency, Abbas Darvish Tavanger, has been arrested for falsifying news,” state broadcaster IRIB said late Monday. Read more at Barron’s….
Sneaky hackers reverse defense mitigations when detected
Bill Toulas reports: A financially motivated threat actor is hacking telecommunication service providers and business process outsourcing firms, actively reversing defensive mitigations applied when the breach is detected. The campaign was spotted by Crowdstrike, who says the attacks started in June 2022 and are still ongoing, with the security researchers able to identify five distinct…
Four Men Arrested In Transnational Wire Fraud And Identity Theft Conspiracy
Press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida: Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of four indictments charging Akinola Taylor (Nigeria), Olayemi Adafin (United Kingdom), Olakunle Oyebanjo (Nigeria), and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe (Nigeria), with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, filing false claims with the United States,…
Little Rock School Board will meet to decide whether to negotiate settlement after data security breach
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School Board will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday to decide on whether to negotiate a settlement to a “network issue” that was characterized last week as a “data security incident” that likely resulted in unauthorized extraction of district data. The district announced the special meeting Sunday…
CommonSpirit Health Provides Cyberattack Update and Notification of Data Breach Involving Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Washington state
There was an update on December 1 to the CommonSpirit ransomware attack that DataBreaches has reported on multiple times already. Press release: On October 2, 2022, CommonSpirit detected activity on its IT network that was later determined to be ransomware. CommonSpirit immediately took steps to secure the network, which included proactively taking certain systems offline, and…