The Office of Inadequate Security
Russian National Alleged to Have Coordinated Sale, Distribution, and Operation of Phobos Ransomware as Part of International Hacking and Extortion Conspiracy The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges today against Evgenii Ptitsyn, 42, a Russian national, for allegedly administering the sale, distribution, and operation of Phobos ransomware. Ptitsyn made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for…
Lars Daniel reports: T-Mobile is the latest telecommunications company to report being impacted by a large-scale cyber-espionage campaign linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers. While T-Mobile has stated that customer data and critical systems have not been significantly affected, the breach is part of a broader attack on major telecom providers, raising concerns about the security…
Martin Matishak reports: A House Republican late last week introduced legislation to untangle the country’s jumble of cybersecurity regulations, keeping the bipartisan proposal alive as Congress finishes its work for 2024. The measure from Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a member of both the House Homeland Security and Oversight committees, is a companion bill to bipartisan…
Anna Isaac reports: “The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water. Sometimes the defences are breached. Thames, the UK’s largest water and waste treatment company,…
This was predictable, but it’s also a damned shame. Alexandra Kelley and David DiMolfetta report: Jen Easterly, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s stalwart champion and a figurehead among cybersecurity and intelligence community practitioners, will leave her post Jan. 20 next year when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated back into the White House, people familiar…
On November 15, Equinox notified clients and staff members about what they described as a data security incident on April 29. With a little digging, DataBreaches realized that it was an attack by LockBit3.0. Equinox is a human services organization that serves clients in the capital region of New York State, providing services to 3,500…