Lea Kahn reports: The East Windsor Township’s computer system has been compromised by unknown hackers, but it took more than two weeks for township officials to publicly acknowledge the breach and notify township residents. A message – “Notice of Cyber Incident” – scrolled across the top of the East Windsor municipal website March 18. It…
Newer Conti ransomware source code leaked out of revenge
“ContiLeaks,” generally believed to be a Ukrainian security researcher (although that is not confirmed), is at it again. Lawrence Abrams reports that they have now leaked newer malware source code for Conti. Read more about it BleepingComputer.
Indicators of Compromise Associated with AvosLocker Ransomware
There’s a new joint Cybersecurity Advisory (Product ID: CU-000164-MW) out this week. SUMMARY AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. AvosLocker claims to directly handle…
Africa Data Security and Privacy Guide
Janet MacKenzie, Anne-Marie Allgrove, Kellie Blyth, Elisabeth Dehareng, Ghada El Ehwany, Brian Hengesbaugh, Theo Ling, Paolo Sbuttoni, and Carlos Vela-Trevino of Baker McKenzie write: The pandemic drove home the high value of personal data to the global economy, while also highlighting its vulnerability to abuse and attack. In response, governments around the world, including those…
BlockFi confirms unauthorized access to client data hosted on Hubspot
Arijit Sarkar reports: New Jersey-based crypto financial institution BlockFi confirmed a data breach incident via one of its third-party vendors, Hubspot. BlockFi’s proactive warning about the breach aims to deter the intentions of bad actors in repurposing the user data for fraudulent activities. According to the announcement, the hackers gained access to BlockFi’s client data on…
Leaked ransomware documents show Conti helping Putin from the shadows
Matt Burgess of Wired.com reports: For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to tackle ransomware groups, they’re still intimately tied to Russia’s interests. A recent leak from…