Today’s reminder of the insider threat, as reported by The Washington Post: At least a dozen employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly accessed the medical records of vice-presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz this summer, VA investigators found, in a violation of federal health privacy laws that is under criminal investigation. VA…
New developments — and arrests — in law enforcement pursuit of LockBit
It looks like we will find out more tomorrow but law enforcement has reactivated a seized LockBit site to make more announcements:
A cyberattack on Kuwait Health Ministry impacted hospitals in the country
Pierluigi Paganini reports: Kuwait’s Health Ministry was the victim of a cyberattack that took systems at several of the country’s hospitals offline. The cyber attack also impacted the Ministry of Health website, which is still offline, and Kuwait’s Sahel healthcare app. “Kuwaiti Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that many essential features are back and running…
French news agency AFP hit by cyberattack
DPA reports: French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been hit by a cyberattack, the agency said in a statement on Saturday. The attack on AFP’s IT system, which partly affected transmission technology to customers, was discovered on Friday. It is unclear who was behind the attack. AFP’s technical department, assisted by the National Cybersecurity…
Richmond Community Schools reports ransomware attack; Scranton School District paid ransom in March
One new attack on a k-12 district and an update on a previous one. WHIO reports that Richmond Community Schools in Indiana posted to social media that student and staff information in the PowerSchool software system was breached in a ransomware attack on Friday. “While there is no current evidence of misuse, RCS has shut…
All Dutch police officers’ contact details stolen in cyberattack
Sam Clark reports: The names of all Dutch police officers have been stolen in a cyberattack, the country’s justice minister said today. David van Weel, minister of justice and security in the Netherlands, said in a letter to the Dutch House of Representatives this afternoon that the chief of police informed him yesterday that “work-related contact details”…