Mihir Bagwe
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Play Ransomware Partially Leaks Stolen City of Oakland Data
Play ransomware hackers attempting to extort the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland dumped 10 gigabytes of stolen information over the weekend and threatened → Read More
Breach Roundup: Activision, SAS, Dole, Atlassian, VGTRK
In this week's roundup of cybersecurity incidents happening around the world, ISMG looks at incidents affecting the maker of the video game Call of Duty, → Read More
DDoS Attacks Becoming More Potent, Shorter in Duration
In a new report, tech giant Microsoft says distributed denial-of-service attacks became shorter in duration but more potent in 2022. The United States, India and → Read More
Australia Unveils Game Plan to Guard Critical Infrastructure
In the wake of recent cyberthreats aimed at Australia's critical infrastructure, the country has adopted a new risk management program to strengthen its resilience → Read More
Russian Sandworm APT Adds New Wiper to Its Arsenal
Security researchers say they found the Russian intelligence-linked Sandworm threat actor deploying a novel disk wiper against an energy sector company located in → Read More
Fortinet VPN Flaw Shows Pitfalls of Security Appliances
Security appliances are targets for sophisticated threat actors who take advantage of devices' limited configuration and logging features, as well as their → Read More
Ukraine: Russians Aim to Destroy Information Infrastructure
Ukraine's top information protection agency says Russian cyberattacks are focusing on destruction of critical information infrastructure, spying and disinformation. → Read More
Patched Chromium Vulnerability Allowed File Theft
A high-severity vulnerability patched by Google Chrome a few months ago allowed hackers to steal sensitive files such as crypto wallets. Hackers increasingly are → Read More
Hive Claims Responsibility for Nursing Home Chain Attack
The Hive ransomware as a service group claimed responsibility for a data breach involving patients of a U.S. nursing home chain with a checkered past. The chain, → Read More
Ukraine Takes Down Domestic Pro-Kremlin Bot Farms
Thirteen bot farms transmitting pro-Kremlin messages across more than 1.5 million fake accounts are no longer operating after Ukrainian police raided their → Read More
Hacked French Hospital Suspends Emergency Operations
A French hospital in the Parisian suburbs scrambled to respond to a weekend cyber incident by transferring patients, directing emergency cases elsewhere and → Read More
Medibank Hackers Dump Stolen Data on the Dark Web
The Russia-based ransomware gang behind the hack of Australia's largest private health insurer says it posted a full set of stolen data. The Australian Information → Read More
Ontario Teachers’ Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack
A cyberattack on a Canadian teachers’ union gave thieves access to sensitive data of more than 60,000 members The union is yet to disclose the exact number of → Read More
LockBit 3.0 Says It's Holding a Canadian City for Ransom
The nefarious LockBit 3.0 cybercriminal group is claiming responsibility for the ransomware attack that halted municipal services and shut down employee email → Read More
Sexual Assault, Abuse Victims' Data at Risk in Australia
A hack of an Australian legal aid group this week may have exposed the personal information of domestic violence, sexual assault victims and other vulnerable people → Read More
Not Heartbleed: OpenSSL Vulnerability Not 'Critical' Anymore
The OpenSSL Project downgraded the urgency of a patch issued Tuesday after determining that the vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in common situations. → Read More
Hackers Threaten to Sell Stolen Medibank Data, Seek Ransom
Australian health insurer Medibank says it received a ransomware demand from hackers asserting to have stolen data during a cybersecurity incident the company → Read More
Two Australian Regulators Investigating Optus Breach
Two Australian regulatory agencies are investigating the telecommunications company behind the country's second-largest data breach, affecting approximately 10 → Read More
Hacker Plunders $160M From Crypto Market Maker Wintermute
A newly uncovered vulnerability in a wallet addressing tool may be the reason a hacker stole $160 million in digital assets from market maker Wintermute. The → Read More
Harassment Site Kiwi Farms Breached
One of the internet's worst websites is down following a weekend hack that may have exposed the email, password and IP address of Kiwi Farms users. A statement on → Read More