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AUGUST 20, 2024

Patients Still Asked to Bring Paper Records to Appointments Post-Ransomware Attack McLaren Health Care expects IT disruptions caused by a ransomware attack earlier this month to last through the end of August.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Our problem is that we need them to understand, to make time for us, to change their thinking. To help them get there, we… Read More » Make it Personal When People Slow Your InfoGov Roll The post Make it Personal When People Slow Your InfoGov Roll appeared first on Holly Group.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Report Reveals North Korean Workers Expanding into Intellectual Property Theft North Korean threat actors posing as remote information technology workers are increasingly extorting ransom from Western companies after securing jobs under false pretenses, according to a new report from Secureworks' counter threat unit.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

But on closer inspection they discovered the address contained an HTML title of “ Araneida Customer Panel ,” and found they could search on that text string to find dozens of unique addresses hosting the same service. Araneida Scanner’s Telegram channel bragging about how customers are using the service for cybercrime.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Schellman CEO Avani Desai on Preparing Executives for New Security Responsibilities With the NIS2 Directive fast approaching, cybersecurity has evolved from a technical challenge to a critical business priority. Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, highlights the growing responsibility of boards and executives to oversee cybersecurity risk management.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Researches Find Deep Ties to North Korea Among Fake IT Services Firms Websites North Korean state actors are using fake websites of foreign technology services firms sidestep sanctions and raise funding for Kim Jong-un regime's weapons development programs. SentinelLabs found many of these sites shared similar infrastructure, owners and locations.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Also: Ransomware Surged in 2023, MoneyGram Back in Service After Cyberattack This week, advice on spotting North Korean staff; ransomware attacks rose; MoneyGram back online; FCC fined political operative; CISA warned of water system attacks; Ukraine restricted Telegram use; North Korean hackers used new malware; U.K.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Travelers in the Pacific Northwest's busiest airport should travel light and gird for extra levels of frustration in the aftermath of a suspected Saturday cyberattack. The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport said that systems "experienced certain system outages indicating a possible cyberattack."

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

You Wonder, Should I Just Spend It on a Place to Stay in America For a Week' Revisions to U.K. government research funding guidelines and their complex application pose a challenge to early-stage tech companies, experts on Tuesday told a parliamentary committee inquiry. "We We have definitely had issues," said Peadar Coyle, founder of AudioStack.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Kong's API Security Perspectives Report Says Many Teams Unprepared for AI Threats Despite 92% of companies securing their APIs, 40% of leaders doubt whether their investments are adequate against AI-driven threats, said Kong's API Security Perspectives Report. Only 13% of organizations in the U.S. and 4% in the U.K.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Griffin is a battalion chief firefighter in the Seattle area, and on May 6 he received a call from someone claiming they were from Google support saying his account was being accessed from Germany. At the same time, he received an email that came from a google.com email address, warning his Google account was compromised.

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MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. ” he observed.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Roughly a week ago, KrebsOnSecurity was contacted by Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Image: Varonis. In the third week of February, a cyber intrusion at Change Healthcare began shutting down important healthcare services as company systems were taken offline. It soon emerged that BlackCat was behind the attack, which has disrupted the delivery of prescription drugs for hospitals and pharmacies nationwide for nearly two weeks.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2024

AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people — nearly all of its customers. AT&T’s said it learned of the breach on April 19, but delayed disclosing it at the request of federal investigators.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Most IT Restored, But UHG Is Still Catching Up and Aiming to Win Back Clients UnitedHealth Group has raised its estimates to nearly $2.9 billion for the total costs this fiscal year of the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare IT services unit.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Those include carfatwitter.com , which Twitter/X truncated to carfax.com when the domain appeared in user messages or tweets. Visiting this domain currently displays a message that begins, “Are you serious, X Corp?”

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JULY 19, 2024

CrowdStrike Confirms Faulty Software Update for Falcon Sensor, Is Deploying Fix Banks, airlines, media giants and others are being disrupted by a mass, global IT outage tied to Windows PCs.

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APRIL 15, 2024

government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Those who clicked the link for details were asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. A reader named Chris shared an email he received this week that spoofed GitHub’s security team and warned: “Hey there! .”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Cybercriminals Say They Hacked 66 Companies The Clop cybercriminal group is threatening to make public the companies swept up by its mass hacking of managed file-transfer software built by Cleo Communications. 24 update to its dark web leak site, Clop asserted it has "data of many companies who use Cleo."

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Tripp on FBI's Approach to Deepfakes, Nation-State Election Threats The U.S. presidential election is still eight months away, but the FBI is already seeing its share of cyberattacks, nation-state threats and AI-generated deepfakes. According to FBI Agent Robert K.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Many media outlets mistakenly reported that the National Public data breach affects 2.9 billion people (that figure actually refers to the number of rows in the leaked data sets). criminal records. Atlas said they verified 5,000 addresses and phone numbers, and found the records pertain to people born before Jan. 1, 2002 (with very few exceptions).

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JULY 24, 2024

Static Scanning Limitations Usher Malware Onto Corporate Network Phishing hackers have developed a new technique for smuggling malware past secure email gateway defenses, said researchers at Cofense who uncovered a recent info stealer campaign. "I

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APRIL 5, 2024

New Malware With Ties to IcedID Loader Evades Detection, Gains Persistence Security researchers are warning about a relatively new malware called Latrodectus, believed to be an evolutionary successor to the IcedID loader.

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JULY 8, 2024

Agency Is in 2nd Phase of Its Open-Source Software Security Road Map The U.S.

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MARCH 26, 2024

“All of my devices started blowing up, my watch, laptop and phone,” Patel told KrebsOnSecurity. “It was like this system notification from Apple to approve [a reset of the account password], but I couldn’t do anything else with my phone. I had to go through and decline like 100-plus notifications.” ” Ken said.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Forrester Analyst Allie Mellen on Misaligned Expectations and Future Trends Generative AI has shown some value in cybersecurity, but it hasn’t met early hopes for handling complex incident responses or providing precise recommendations.

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JULY 23, 2024

Million Affected Systems Back Online, Reports IT Asset Management Firm On day five of the Windows outages due to a faulty CrowdStrike update, there is cautious optimism as IT experts report significant restoration of downed systems.

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