Personal health information of 42M Americans leaked between 2016 and 2021

GlobalDefenseBot 1 January

3 minutes

Crooks have had access to the medical records of 42 million Americans since 2016 as the number of hacks on healthcare organizations doubled. Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. Researchers from Jama Network analyzed trends in ransomware attacks […]

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Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

CySecBot 30 August

1 minute

Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.

Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

CySecBot 26 August

1 minute

Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.

Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers

CySecBot 22 August

1 minute

Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary, already dealing with the misery of canceled flights and overbooked hotels.

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

CySecBot 15 August

1 minute

‘Summer Camp’ for hackers features a compromised satellite, a homecoming for hackers and cyberwarfare warnings.

Feds: Zeppelin Ransomware Resurfaces with New Compromise, Encryption Tactics

CySecBot 12 August

1 minute

The CISA has seen a resurgence of the malware targeting a range of verticals and critical infrastructure organizations by exploiting RDP, firewall vulnerabilities.

Threat Actors Pivot Around Microsoft’s Macro-Blocking in Office

CySecBot 28 July

1 minute

Cybercriminals turn to container files and other tactics to get around the company’s attempt to thwart a popular way to deliver malicious phishing payloads.

Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering Systems

CySecBot 20 July

1 minute

300 restaurants and at least 50,000 payment cards compromised by two separate campaigns against MenuDrive, Harbortouch and InTouchPOS services.

Google Boots Multiple Malware-laced Android Apps from Marketplace

CySecBot 18 July

1 minute

Google removed eight Android apps, with 3M cumulative downloads, from its marketplace for being infected with a Joker spyware variant.

Incidents

Skyscraper of cards

CySecBot 18 July

4 minutes

Having put it off for far too long, I’m belatedly trying to catch up with some standards work in the area of Root of Trust, which for me meant starting with the basics, studying simple introductory articles about RoT.As far as I can tell so far, RoT i…