When the FBI and its law enforcement collaborators seized BreachForums on May 15, a splash screen announced the seizure. But by the next morning, BreachForums seemed to have regained control of their domain. How that happened has yet to be explained by law enforcement. On May 20, DataBreaches reported that a Swiss prosecutor had provided CloudFlare…
SEC Charges Intercontinental Exchange and Nine Affiliates Including the New York Stock Exchange with Failing to Inform the Commission of a Cyber Intrusion
Washington D.C., May 22, 2024 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that The Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to settle charges that it caused the failure of nine wholly-owned subsidiaries, including the New York Stock Exchange, to timely inform the SEC of a cyber intrusion as required…
An Israeli City Hid a Crippling Cyberattack From the Public. It Was Just the Beginning
Omer Benjakob, Aaron Rabinowitz, and Ran Shimoni report: One Friday morning in January, office telephones in the city hall of Modi’in Ilit fell silent. Employees who were in the building quickly realized that something unusual was happening. They were locked out of their computers, unable to access files and emails. The reason only became clear…
How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security – Beaumont
Kevin Beaumont writes: Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sat down with the media to introduce a new feature called Recall, as part of their Copilot+ PCs. It takes screenshots of what you’re doing on constantly, by design. Previously, Kevin wrote: For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base…
Ransomware group says it will release stolen London Drugs data if it doesn’t get $25M in 48 hours
Michael John Lo reports: A ransomware gang is threatening to release confidential data it claims to have stolen from London Drugs if it isn’t paid $25 million by Thursday. The retailer and pharmacy chain closed all of its 79 stores in Western Canada after a cybersecurity breach was discovered on April 28. Stores, including ones…
100 Groups Urge Feds to Put UHG on Hook for Breach Notices
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: More than 100 medical associations and industry groups representing tens of thousands of U.S. doctors and healthcare professionals have banded together to urge federal regulators to hold Change Healthcare responsible for breach notifications related to a massive February ransomware attack. The groups in a letter Monday asked the U.S. Department of Health and…