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…
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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…
Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time
‘TikTag’ security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may not be as effective as first hoped.……
Suspected bosses of $430M dark-web Empire Market charged in US
Dopenugget and Zero Angel may face life behind bars if convicted The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been detained on charges related to owning and…
Shoddy infosec costs PwC spinoff and NMA $11.3M in settlement with Uncle Sam
Pen-testing tools didn’t work – and personal info of folks hit by pandemic started appearing in search engines Two consulting firms, Guidehouse and Nan McKay and Associates, have agreed to pay a total of $11.3 million to resolve allegations of…
Suspected dark-web Empire Market bosses charged in US
Dopenugget and Zero Angel said to have run $430M cyber-crime souk, may face life behind bars if convicted The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been…
Suspected underworld Empire Market bosses face possible life behind bars
Could this be curtains for Dopenugget and Zero Angel’s $430M cyber-crime souk? The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been detained on charges related to owning…
Feds cuff suspected bosses of underworld Empire Market
Could this be curtains for Dopenugget and Zero Angel’s $430M cyber-crime souk? The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been arrested on charges related to owning…
Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack
Four years on and it’s still paying for what California attorney general calls ‘unacceptable’ practice Months after escaping without a fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the luck of cloud software biz Blackbaud ran out when it came…
Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader
Spanish cops make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy Spanish police arrested a person they allege to be the leader of the notorious cybercrime gang Scattered Spider just before he boarded a private flight headed to Naples.……