April 19, 2019 Servers Compromised and Virus Deployed at Centrelake Medical Group Centrelake Medical Group, a group of 8 medical imaging and oncology clinics in California, is notifying a number of patients that some of their protected ... Read more
April 17, 2019 Phishing Attacks Increased by 40.9% in 2018 The 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report from PhishLabs shows there was a 40.9% increase in phishing attacks in 2018. Attacks increased steadily during Q1 ... Read more
April 16, 2019 $4.7 Million Settlement Agreed in Washington State University Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit In the past few days a $4.7 million settlement has been approved by the King County Superior Court to reimburse individuals whose personal information was ... Read more
April 16, 2019 Microsoft Confirms Support Agent’s Credentials were Compromised and Customers’ Email Data Potentially Accessed Microsoft has experienced a data breach that has lasted at least three months. During that time, hackers were able to access affected users’ email addresses, ... Read more
April 2, 2019 Restaurant Chain Data Breach Impacts more than 2 Million Customers A malware infection has impacted around 2 million customers of the Planet Hollywood, Earl of Sandwich, Chicken Guy!, Tequila Taqueria, Mixology, and Buca di Beppo ... Read more
April 1, 2019 Tech Companies Still Not Implementing DMARC to Block Phishing Attacks A recent study by Valimail has revealed only 10.5% of large tech companies have correctly implemented the DMARC email authentication protocol to block phishing attacks ... Read more
March 26, 2019 One Third of Organizations Have Experienced A Security Breach Involving Remote Workers Robust defenses may have been implemented to protect networks from cyberattacks, but the same level of protection is not always applied for remote workers. Allowing ... Read more
March 25, 2019 7 Out of 10 Ransomware Attacks are on SMBs 71% of ransomware attack are on SMBs, according to a new report from Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services When an attack involves widespread encryption across ... Read more
March 15, 2019 MFA Bypassed in IMAP-Based Attacks on Office 365 and G Suite Accounts Multi-factor authentication can prevent accounts from being accessed if passwords are stolen or obtained using brute force tactics; however, Proofpoint has discovered that multi-factor authentication ... Read more
March 13, 2019 Verifications.io MongoDB Misconfiguration Exposed 2 Billion Records The enterprise email verification service, Verifications.io, has exposed around 2 billion records due the misconfiguration of MongoDB instances. The data leak was discovered by researcher ... Read more
March 4, 2019 Rutland Regional Medical Center Email Accounts Accessed by Hackers Rutland City -based Rutland Regional Medical, the biggest community hospital in Vermont, has uncovered a hack of its IT systems where cybercriminals obtained access to ... Read more
February 25, 2019 B0r0nt0K Ransomware Attack Could Cost You $75,000 A new cryptoransomware threat called B0r0nt0K ransomware is being used to encrypt files on Linux and Windows servers. If you haven’t backed up, you will ... Read more
February 20, 2019 GandCrab Ransomware Decryptor Developed for Versions 5.0.4 to 5.1 A free GandCrab ransomware decryptor has been released that works for the latest version of the ransomware. Files encrypted by versions 1, 4, early versions ... Read more
February 15, 2019 MSPs Targeted in New GandCrab Ransomware Campaign Managed service providers (MSPs) and IT support companies are being targeted in a new GandCrab ransomware campaign. MSPs are an attractive target. If access can ... Read more
February 13, 2019 VFEmail Suffers Catastrophic Cyberattack with Permanent Loss of Customers Email Data The email provider VFEmail has suffered a cyberattack that has caused “catastrophic destruction.” A hacker with a Bulgarian IP address gained access to its U.S. ... Read more
February 13, 2019 Facebook Data Gathering Reined in by German Facebook Ruling Recently he German antitrust body, Bundeskartellamt, released a decision dictating that the way Facebook obtains, links, authors and uses data in user accounts is an ... Read more
February 9, 2019 Minnesota Infertility Clinic Suffers Malware Attack Malware has been downloaded to the network of Reproductive Medicine and Infertility Associates, an infertility clinic located in Woodbury, Minnesota. While no proof was found ... Read more
February 8, 2019 Investigation of Corporate Phishing Incidents Costs $4.86 Million Per Year New figures from email security company Agari show organizations are now spending $4.86 million a year triaging, investigating, and responding to phishing incidents. The Agari ... Read more
February 5, 2019 New Speakup Linux Backdoor Trojan Used in Widespread Attacks Security researchers at Check Point have identified a new Trojan named Speakup which is being used in targeted attacks on Linux servers. The Speakup Linux ... Read more
February 3, 2019 $935,000 Settlement Agreed Between Aetna and California AG in HIV Status Breach Case Health insurance company Aetna has reach an agreement to to a HIPAA penalty of $935,000 to the California Attorney General in relation to alleged violations ... Read more
January 29, 2019 Apple IOS Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Snoop on FaceTime Calls A serious Apple IOS vulnerability has been detected that allows people to gain access to both the microphone and the front facing camera on Apple ... Read more
January 22, 2019 STOP Ransomware Delivered via Software Cracks STOP ransomware, a crypto-ransomware variant that uses the .rumba file extension on encrypted files, is being delivered via software cracks. Software cracking programs that generate ... Read more
January 16, 2019 BenefitMall Phishing Attack Impacts 111,589 Plan Members A recently discovered BenefitMall phishing attack has resulted in the exposure of 111,589 plan members’ protected health information. BenefitMall, a division of Centerstone Insurance ... Read more
January 15, 2019 Four-Month Email Account Hack Impacts 111K Individuals Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services, which conducts its business as BenefitMall, has begun alerting more than 111,000 individuals that some of their protected health information ... Read more
January 4, 2019 Choice Rehabilitation Residents Affected by Email Breach It has been found that an unauthorized individual hacked into a corporate email account of one of the employees of Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, ... Read more
January 3, 2019 Free Decryptor for Fileslocker Ransomware Developed After Master Key Leaked A free decryptor for Fileslocker ransomware has been developed following the leaking of the master key for the ransomware on Pastebin. The master key is ... Read more
January 2, 2019 Tribune Publishing Cyberattack Cripples Several U.S. Newspapers A recent malware attack on Tribune Publishing has caused disruption to several newspaper print runs including those of the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Tribune, ... Read more
January 1, 2019 Ransomware Attack Hits Vendor of Dental Center of Northwest Ohio Existing and previous at the Dental Center of Northwest Ohio in Toledo, OH, have been contacted to advise them that some of their protected health ... Read more
December 28, 2018 Orange Livebox Modems Leaking WiFi Information Hackers are exploiting a flaw (CVE-2018-20377) in Orange Livebox ASDL modems that allows them to obtain the SSID and the Wi-Fi password of the devices ... Read more
December 27, 2018 More Than 50 Accounts Compromised in San Diego School District Data Breach A major data breach has been reported by the San Diego School District that has potentially resulted in the theft of the personal information of ... Read more