At least they didn’t get paid their $50 million ransom demand The ransomware gang responsible for the chaos at London hospitals kept true to its word and released a trove of data that it claims belongs to pathology services provider…
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Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites
If Putin likes jammin’, we hope NATO likes jammin’ too Sweden says its satellites have been impacted by “harmful interference” from Russia ever since the Nordic nation joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last March.… This article has been…
Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach
Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers’ personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke API…
Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients’ records in cyber-attack
Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Consulting Radiologists has notified almost 512,000 patients that digital intruders accessed their personal and medical information during a February cyberattack.… This article has been indexed from The…
Biden puts a bullet in Kaspersky: Sales, updates to be banned in America
Blockade begins July 20 over national security fears Breaking news The Biden administration has banned the sale of Kaspersky software in the United States, arguing the Russian biz is a national security risk.… This article has been indexed from The…
Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid ‘cyber incident’
Downtime set to crash into next week The vendor behind the software on which nearly 15,000 car dealerships across the US rely says an ongoing “cyber incident” has forced it to pull systems offline for a second time in as…
Crypto exchange Kraken accuses blockchain security outfit CertiK of extortion
Researchers allegedly stole $3M using the vulnerability, then asked how much it was really worth Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has accused a trio of security researchers of discovering a critical bug, expoliting it to…
Russia’s cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy
Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence A fresh report into the Nobelium offensive cyber crew published by France’s computer emergency response team (CERT-FR) highlights the group’s latest tricks as the country prepares for a major…
Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals
Cybercriminals claim they used a zero-day to breach pathology provider’s systems Interview The ransomware gang responsible for the current healthcare crisis at London hospitals says it has no regrets about the attack, which was entirely deliberate, it told The Register…
Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into user accounts, derailing email addresses
Rail company goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards customers about spilled card details and more US rail company Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at…
That PowerShell ‘fix’ for your root cert ‘problem’ is a malware loader in disguise
Control-C, Control-V, Enter … Hell Crafty criminals are targeting thousands of orgs around the world in social-engineering attacks that use phony error messages to trick users into running malicious PowerShell scripts. … This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech
Two decades in the clink, $250K fine, or both will be quite an education A now-former IT director has pleaded guilty to defrauding the university at which he was employed, and a computer equipment supplier, for $2.1 million over five…
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians
If you call ‘client-side scanning’ something like ‘upload moderation,’ it still undermines privacy, security On Thursday, the EU Council is scheduled to vote on a legislative proposal that would attempt to protect children online by disallowing confidential communication.… This article…
Dark-web kingpin puts ‘stolen’ internal AMD databases, source code up for sale
Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now AMD’s IT team is no doubt going through its logs today after cyber-crooks put up for sale what is claimed to be internal data stolen from the US microprocessor…
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-busting law slammed by Signal, politicians
If you call ‘client-side scanning’ something like ‘upload moderation,’ it still undermines privacy, security On Thursday, the EU Council is scheduled to vote on a legislative proposal that would attempt to protect children online by disallowing confidential communication.… This article…
CHERI Alliance formed to promote memory security tech … but where’s Arm?
Academic-industry project takes next step as key promoter chip designer licks its wounds A group of technology organizations has formed the CHERI Alliance CIC (Community Interest Company) to promote industry adoption of the security technology focused on memory access.… This…
NHS boss says Scottish trust wouldn’t give cyberattackers what they wanted
CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting the…
Uncle Sam ends financial support to orgs hurt by Change Healthcare attack
Billions of dollars made available but worst appears to be over The US government is winding down its financial support for healthcare providers originally introduced following the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare in February.… This article has been indexed from…
NHS boss says Scottish trust didn’t meet attackers’ demands
CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting the…
VMware by Broadcom warns of two critical vCenter flaws, plus a nasty sudo bug
Specially crafted network packet could allow remote code execution and access to VM fleets VMware by Broadcom has revealed a pair of critical-rated flaws in vCenter Server – the tool used to manage virtual machines and hosts in its flagship…