Schools and universities in the United States are experiencing a surge in cyberattacks from foreign adversaries like Iran and North Korea, with a new report revealing that educational institutions are the third-most targeted sector in the nation amid increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
October has been a good month for European police agencies shutting down darkweb marketplaces, with Dutch, Finnish and Swedish police announcing server seizures and suspect arrests. It's been more than a decade since Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht initiated an era of online criminal bazaars.
Nearly three weeks after a ransomware attack, UMC Health System has restored electronic health records, but the Texas-based public health system is still working to recover other patient care IT systems. Nearby Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is still dealing with a related outage.
Sri Lankan authorities have arrested more than 200 Chinese nationals who they say overstayed their visitor visas and engaged in large-scale financial scam operations targeting victims across Asia. The Chinese Embassy in Colombo says it supports the law enforcement crackdown.
Congress is demanding answers from AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen after reports revealed that Chinese hackers breached U.S. telecom infrastructure, targeting systems linked to court-authorized wiretaps, as the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency investigate the Salt Typhoon group.
Ransomware gang Rhysida is threatening to dump data on the darkweb that belongs to a Colorado provider of mental health, substance abuse and other healthcare services unless it pays nearly $1.5 million. The group is leaking records it claims to have stolen from a Mississippi nursing home.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the implications of the U.S. investigation into Chinese hackers targeting telecom wiretap systems, the catastrophic risks of AI and the recent veto of an AI safety bill in the U.S., and the latest global ransomware response guidance.
While a Ransomware Task Force study of 2023 ransomware group disruptions finds they're often "tactical and temporary," report co-author Taylor Grossman said recent, major law enforcement actions may "really strategically pull them apart and make it harder for them to regroup."
A British cybersecurity official touted Operation Cronos, an international operation against LockBit, saying multiple strikes aimed at the ransomware-as-a-service have disrupted its ability to recruit hackers. The operation has resulted in indictments, sanctions, and server takedowns.
This week, the Global Signal Exchange hopes to dent online crime, a Fidelity data breach, phishing platform targets Microsoft 365 users, October Patch Tuesday, Pavel Durov said he's always cooperated with police, Highline Public Schools and CreditRiskMonitor updates, ADT and Casio suffered breaches
This week, Australia seized crypto from alleged Ghost mastermind, Taiwan drafts new AML rules, IcomTech founder sentenced, U.S. looks to recover stolen crypto, EigenLayer's erroneous fund transfer, FTX's bankruptcy plan approved, Bitfinex hack update and regulatory push for a lawsuit against Nvidia.
The nonprofit Internet Archive has been hit by hackers, who stole usernames and for 31 million accounts, including email addresses and bcrypt-hashed passwords. In recent days, the digital archive has also suffered defacement and repeat denial-of-service attacks.
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Ransom payments are typically tightly held secrets between cybercriminals and their victims, but the Australian government has introduced a cybersecurity bill in Parliament that would require larger businesses to report ransom payments to the government.
An Oklahoma county provider of medical, fire, police and other 911 emergency services is notifying 180,000 individuals that their health information may have been compromised in a recent ransomware attack. The incident affects patients receiving emergency medical care as far back as 2011.
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