After a two-month hiatus, and with pixels to spare, TheDarkOverlord let it be known today that they are still hacking and attempting to extort their victims: And so let it be read that the loathsome giants do too fall. Hello Netflix, we’ve arrived: https://t.co/Fmb1gsZf4a — thedarkoverlord (@tdohack3r) April 28, 2017 “And so let it be read that the…
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A Heart-to-Heart from the Hackers: Cyber-Vulnerabilities in Cardiac Devices
Robert Radick writes: Just over a year ago, this blog took note of a governmental letter that powerfully underscored the dangers of cyberattacks in the healthcare industry. The letter, which then-Senator Barbara Boxer had sent to FBI Director James Comey, discussed the serious risks that hospitals and other institutional health care providers face from cyberattacks,…
Hackers reportedly disable Newark computers and demand $30K ‘ransom’
Paul Milo reported this yesterday: Hackers have disabled some City of Newark computers and are now demanding about $30,000 worth of the online currency Bitcoin to render them operable once again, TAPInto reported Monday. The computers were infected over the weekend with an encryption that affects nearly all files that operate on a desktop, according to…
BakerHostetler 2017 Data Security Incident Response Report Based on 450 Incidents
I don’t post links to most reports with data breach analyses because some are so flawed that they just perpetuate errors some of us have tried to correct. But BakerHostetler handles a lot of breach incidents for their clients, and they’ve issued a report based on 450 incidents they’ve handled. Some of their findings seem quite…
Healthcare breach reports continued to climb in March
Protenus has released their Breach Barometer report for March. The report is based on 39 incidents that reportedly affected 1,519,521 patients’ records. As noted in recent months, we’ve reached that unhappy stage where we are seeing an average of one or more breach disclosures every day. If this just represented greater transparency, that would be great, but it…
Spammer’s Arrest Puts End to Kelihos Botnet
Michael Mimoso reports: The alleged Russian botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet was arrested while on vacation in Spain, putting an end to a seven-year cybercrime operation that foisted hundreds of millions of spam messages on consumers, as well as a dangerous array of banking malware and ransomware. Pyotr Levashov, also known as Peter Severa and…