Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: South Island businesses may be paying an early price for the United States’ recent successes against ransomware attackers. Evidence is emerging that ransomware criminals may be switching attacks to “soft targets” including New Zealand and Australian firms after President Biden laid down the law with Russia, experts say. A ransomware group known…
Morgan Stanley asks court to throw out data security lawsuit
Ryan W. Neal reports: Morgan Stanley has asked a New York federal court to throw out a class action lawsuit alleging the firm failed to properly wipe sensitive client information from decommissioned computer equipment that has since gone missing. The former clients cannot plausibly identify instances of personal data being accessed or misused, or any…
Ransomware gangs uses PrintNightmare to breach Windows servers
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Ransomware operators have added PrintNightmare exploits to their arsenal and are targeting Windows servers to deploy Magniber ransomware payloads. PrintNightmare is a class of security vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2021-1675, CVE-2021-34527, and CVE-2021-36958) impacting the Windows Print Spooler service, Windows print drivers, and the Windows Point and Print feature. Read more on BleepingComputer….
Japanese manufacturer Murata apologizes for data breach
Jonathan Greig reports: An official with Japanese electronic components manufacturer Murata has released an apology for the leak of thousands of files in June that contained bank account information for employees and business partners of the company. Norio Nakajima, CEO of Murata Manufacturing, released a statement apologizing for an incident on June 28 when a…
Reindeer Leak Personal Data of 3,00,000 Users In A Breach
When the data are old and the company is defunct, it’s a headache making notification and getting a leaky Amazon AWS S3 bucket secured. eHackingNews reports: WizCase’s cybersecurity group discovered a prominent breach impacting Reindeer, an American marketing company that previously worked with Tiffany & Co., Patròn Tequila, and other companies. Led by Ata Hakçil,…
Ie: Patient medical records found in a pub and carpark
Irish Examiner reports: Patients’ medical records from Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) were found in a pub and in a carpark by members of the public in two separate incidents that occurred in the same five-week period, it has emerged. Read more on Irish Examiner. The story contains reports on other HSE breaches.