June 11, 2019 U.S. Coast Guard Issues Warning Following Increase in Cyberattacks on Ships A rise in malware attacks on commercial vessels has prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to issue a warning to ship owners about the increased risk ... Read more
June 10, 2019 Phishing Breach Notifications Sent to 645,000 Clients of Oregon Department of Human Services The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) is making contact with 645,000 clients to advise them that a portion of their personal information was possibly ... Read more
June 7, 2019 Misconfigured ElasticSearch Server at University of Chicago Medicine Exposed Over 1.68M Records It has been revealed that University of Chicago Medicine has discovered more than 1.68 million of its records have been exposed due to a misconfigured ... Read more
June 6, 2019 Norsk Hydro Ransomware Attack Estimated to Cost Firm Between $58 and $70 Million Disaster strikes and ransomware is installed on the network. If backups have been made and they have also not been encrypted, files can be unlocked ... Read more
June 5, 2019 LabCorp Impacted by AMCA Data Breach: Up to 7.7 Million Customers Affected A day after Quest Diagnostics confirmed 11.9 million of its customers have been affected by a cyberattack on American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) comes news ... Read more
June 3, 2019 GandCrab Ransomware Gang to Retire Within a Month The cybercriminal gang behind GandCrab ransomware will be retiring in a month and their operation will be shut down. The gang announced on a popular ... Read more
May 29, 2019 HawkEye Keylogger Used in Targeted Attacks on Businesses Businesses around the world are being targeted by threat actors distributing the Hawkeye keylogger. IBM X-Force researchers identified major campaigns in April and May that ... Read more
May 20, 2019 Unistellar Hacking Group Deletes More Than 12,500 Unsecured MongoDB Databases There has been a spate of attacks on businesses running unsecured MongoDB databases in the past three weeks that has seen the attackers delete databases ... Read more
May 16, 2019 New Intel MDS Vulnerabilities Allow Sensitive Data to Be Accessed from CPUs Four Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities have been discovered in Intel processers which could be exploited using a variety of different attack methods to gain ... Read more
May 15, 2019 Cost of the Equifax Data Breach? $1.5 Billion and Counting In 2017, the Atlanta-based credit bureau Equifax suffered a massive data breach that saw the personal information of 150 million people compromised. According to the ... Read more
May 10, 2019 Antivirus Tool Used by Dharma Ransomware to Hide Malicious Activity Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered the threat actors behind Dharma ransomware are using a legitimate AV tool to hide the malicious activities of ... Read more
May 10, 2019 Chinese Nationals Charged over 78.8 Million-Record Anthem Inc Hack The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that two Chinese nationals have been charged over the 2015 hacking of Anthem Inc., and three other cyberattacks ... Read more
May 10, 2019 American Baptist Homes of the Midwest Reports Ransomware Attack American Baptist Homes of the Midwest (ABHM), a supplier of assisted living and assisted care centers around the U.S Midwest, has reported a security breach ... Read more
May 10, 2019 Bodybuilding.com Data Breach Impacts 3,193 Employees The bodybuilding and personal fitness website Bodybuilding.com has revealed it has had to deal with a security incident that may have lead to the information ... Read more
May 9, 2019 City of Baltimore Suffers Second Ransomware Attack in 14 Months A ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore has forced the city to take most of its servers offline. This is the second such attack ... Read more
May 8, 2019 Delayed Breach Response Costs Tennessee Medical Imaging Firm $3 Million It is not possible to prevent all healthcare data breaches, but when a breach is experienced it must be investigated and mitigated promptly. Delaying the ... Read more
May 8, 2019 Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report Reveals Latest Cyberattack Trends Verizon has released its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. The annual report provides an in-depth analysis of global data breaches, new cyberattack trends, and an ... Read more
May 7, 2019 Large Enterprises Targeted in Major MegaCortex Ransomware Campaign A new strain of MegaCortex ransomware is being used in targeted attacks on large enterprises. The campaign has seen a large number of attacks performed ... Read more
May 6, 2019 Businesses Are Not Well Prepared to Deal with Serious Security Breaches A recent survey conducted by Vanson Bourne on 600 IT decision makers has revealed confidence in the ability to respond to a serious data breach ... Read more
May 3, 2019 PII of 137,000 Individuals Discovered in Unsecured Elasticsearch Database An unsecured Elasticsearch database containing the personally identifiable information of approximately 137,000 people has been exposed over the Internet. The database was discovered by security ... Read more
May 1, 2019 Sodinokibi Ransomware Spread via Oracle WebLogic Server Exploit A new ransomware variant named Sodinokibi is being used in attacks that exploit a recently disclosed vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server – CVE-2019-2725. Oracle released ... Read more
May 1, 2019 Popular Mail Clients Vulnerable to Digital Signature Spoofing Attacks Digital signatures confirm the sender of an email is genuine, that an email is authentic, and has not been intercepted and altered in transit. However, ... Read more
April 28, 2019 HHS Reforms HITECH Act Penalties for HIPAA Breaches The Department of Health and Human Services has published a notification of enforcement discretion in relation to the civil monetary penalties that are applied when ... Read more
April 26, 2019 Medical Billing Service Provider Suffers Ransomware Attack 7 Months After Computer Breach Massachusetts-based supplier of medical billing services Doctors’ Management Service Inc. noticed that malicious software had been downloaded to its network which stopped files from being ... Read more
April 26, 2019 EmCare Phishing Attack Exposes 60,000 Records The Dallas, TX-based physician staffing company EmCare has revealed that it has been impacted by a data breach that has impacted around 60,000 individuals, 31,000 ... Read more
April 26, 2019 Latest Phishing Attack Trends Revealed Proofpoint has released its Q4 2018 quarterly threat analysis which reveals the latest phishing attack trends and provides an insight into the types of individuals ... Read more
April 24, 2019 FBI’S 2018 Internet Crime Report Shows Massive Increase in BEC Attack Losses The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2018 Internet Crime Report which shows there was a dramatic rise in ... Read more
April 23, 2019 Security Researcher Who Thwarted WannaCry Ransomware Pleads Guilty to Malware Development and Distribution The security researcher who identified and activated the kill switch in WannaCry ransomware in 2017 and played a critical role in stopping the global attacks ... Read more
April 23, 2019 Google to Start Blocking Logins from Embedded Browsers to Help Combat MitM Attacks Sign-ins to Google from embedded browser frameworks will soon be blocked. Google announced on Thursday, April 18 that the change is being made to improve ... Read more
April 20, 2019 11,639 Individuals Impacted by Riverplace Counseling Center Malware Attack Riverplace Counseling Center in Anoka, MN, has revealed that malware was discovered on its systems which may have allowed unauthorized individuals to obtain access to ... Read more