Frank Konkel reports: The Government Accountability Office is recommending the Department of Health and Human Services establish a feedback mechanism to improve the effectiveness of its data breach reporting process. The singular recommendation, issued in a June 27 audit, follows a significant increase in the number of data breaches involving unsecured protected health information at HHS….
LockBit 3.0 introduces the first ransomware bug bounty program
Lawrence Abrams reports: The LockBit ransomware operation has released ‘LockBit 3.0,’ introducing the first ransomware bug bounty program and leaking new extortion tactics and Zcash cryptocurrency payment options. […] LeMagIT’s Valery Marchive discovered that the LockBit 3.0 operation is utilizing a new extortion model, allowing threat actors to buy data stolen during attacks. One of the…
Over 900,000 Kubernetes instances found exposed online
Bill Toulas reports: Over 900,000 misconfigured Kubernetes clusters were found exposed on the Internet to potentially malicious scans, some even vulnerable to data-exposing cyberattacks. […] Researchers at Cyble have conducted an exercise to locate exposed Kubernetes instances across the itnernet, using similar scanning tools and search queries to those employed by malicious actors. The results show a…
MO: Fitzgibbon Hospital hit by ransomware, sensitive data leaked
Although one of this year’s trends in cybercrime seems to be a return to the theft/extort model, some groups continue to encrypt victims’ files. On Saturday, DataBreaches received information pointing to an attack on Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri. The group claiming responsibility call themselves “Daixin Team.” It is not a name known to DataBreaches…
Clever phishing method bypasses MFA using Microsoft WebView2 apps
Lawrence Abrams reports: A clever, new phishing technique uses Microsoft Edge WebView2 applications to steal victim’s authentication cookies, allowing threat actors to bypass multi-factor authentication when logging into stolen accounts. […] This week, cybersecurity researcher mr.d0x has created a new phishing method that uses Microsoft Edge WebView2 applications to easily steal a user’s authentication cookies and log into…
Ransomware Ransom Payments: A Geostrategic Risk
The following is a Google-translated statement addressing the significant and negative impact of ransom payments on the German economy and recommendations to reduce and eliminate the payment of ransoms. In the original German, “Lösegeldzahlungen bei Ransomware-Angriffen: ein geostrategisches Risiko” can be found at https://ransomletter.github.io/: Blackmail Trojans in the form of so-called ransomware have grown into…