From an SSU press release: SSU cyber specialists have identified hackers from the notorious ARMAGEDON group, which carried out more than 5,000 cyber attacks on state bodies and objects of critical infrastructure of Ukraine. They were officers of the “Crimean” FSB, as well as traitors who sided with the enemy during the occupation of the…
‘It made me sick’: Box of medical records ends up on Gastonia man’s doorstep
Jason Stoogenke reports from North Carolina: A Gastonia man found a box of medical records on his front porch that contained Social Security numbers, birthdays and other personal information of dozens of people. […] The label on the box indicated that it was from Concentra, a company that runs medical offices specifically for people hurt…
UK: Labour Party discloses cyber attack, members’ data stolen
John Leonard reports: The Labour Party has suffered a ‘cyber incident’ with personal details of members stolen from an unnamed third-party company that handles its membership data. In a statement the party says it was informed of the incident on October 29th and that “a significant quantity of Party data” had been rendered inaccessible. Labour does not give…
European Parliament Adopts Draft Cybersecurity Directive
Hunton Andrews Kurth blog reports: On October 28, 2021, the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy adopted a draft directive on cybersecurity (“NIS2 Directive”). The NIS2 Directive will broaden the scope of the existing NIS Directive to apply to “important sectors,” such as waste management, postal services, chemicals, food, medical device manufacturers, digital providers and…
Cyber Attack Knocks Ohio County Library Computers Offline
Mike Sigov reports: A cybersecurity incident has knocked out the Toledo Lucas County Public Library website and computer systems for the second day in a row, and officials are unsure when service might be restored. Stephanie Elton, the library’s assistant manager of communications, innovation and strategy, said the service outage happened because of a “targeted…
Domaining.com reports security incident
Seen on The Domains: Francois posted on the homepage of Domaining.com the following: BREACH SECURITY ALERT Domaining.com has been apparently compromised, login has been closed. We were not storing any CC data but change your password in other services if you were using the same. More info later, sorry. Hopefully Francois will get to the…