Mathew J. Schwartz
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Blackbaud to Pay $3 Million Over 'Erroneous' Breach Details
Fundraising and customer relationship management software provider Blackbaud has reached a $3 million settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange → Read More
Germany's 5G Safety Review Could Ban Huawei and ZTE Gear
Germany may belatedly ban Chinese-built telecommunications gear from its 5G networks on national security grounds as the country's Federal Office for Information → Read More
White House Unveils Biden's National Cybersecurity Strategy
The Biden administration has unveiled its new national cybersecurity strategy, detailing top challenges facing the U.S. and plans for addressing them. Goals include → Read More
British Retailer WH Smith Discloses Breach of Employee Data
High street retailer WH Smith reports that it suffered a hack attack that led to the exposure of current and former employees' personal data, but no exposure of → Read More
Healthcare Most Hit by Ransomware Last Year, FBI Finds
Healthcare last year was the most attacked sector within critical infrastructure, David Scott, deputy assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, told a Scottish → Read More
Crime Blotter: Hackers Fail to Honor Promises to Delete Data
Cybercrime experts have long urged victims to never pay a ransom in return for any promise an attacker makes to delete stolen data. That's because, as a recent case highlights, whatever extortionists might promise, stolen personal data is lucrative, and it often gets sold six ways from Sunday. → Read More
Ireland Set to Notify 20,000 More Health Data Breach Victims
Ireland's child and family agency, Tusla, says it is beginning a monthslong process to notify 20,000 individuals that their personal information was exposed in the → Read More
Ransomware Gang Stole Customer Data, Arnold Clark Confirms
Christmastime was bleak for a number of organizations in Britain that got hit with ransomware, including car dealership giant Arnold Clark, which originally → Read More
Will Hive Stay Kaput After FBI Busts Infrastructure?
What's not to love about an international law enforcement operation visiting disruption on Hive, the ransomware-wielding crime syndicate? But with no suspects in jail, it's unclear how long this takedown might stick before the bad guys reboot or rebrand. → Read More
Targets of Opportunity: How Ransomware Groups Find Victims
As ransomware continues to pummel numerous sectors, and lately especially the manufacturing industry, how does any given organization end up becoming a target or victim? Cybercrime watchers say the answer involves initial access brokers, botnets, targets of opportunity and, above all, profit. → Read More
Hostile Takeover: Kraken Hacks Rival Darknet Market Solaris
Competition between rival Russian-language darknet markets remains fierce since police shuttered Hydra last year. The latest to fall dark is Solaris, which → Read More
LockBit Tries to Distance Itself From Royal Mail Attack
The prolific ransomware group LockBit has been tied to the recent disruption of Britain's national postal system, as Royal Mail reports it remains unable to send international letters or parcels. While LockBit has enjoyed unusual longevity, could this attack be its undoing? → Read More
Expect Hacking, Phishing After Leak of 200M Twitter Records
Expect the recently leaked database containing over 200 million Twitter records to be an ongoing resource for hackers, fraudsters and other criminals operating → Read More
Will Third-Party App Stores Play With Apple's Walled Garden?
Apple is advancing plans to allow Europeans to access third-party app stores via their iPhone and iPad, as will soon be required under European law. What this means in practice for its vaunted walled garden security model, and whether most users will bother, remains unclear. → Read More
As Complexity Challenges Security, Is Time the Solution?
"Who here thinks your network or environment will become more complex next year?" a cybersecurity veteran asked the audience at Black Hat Europe this week → Read More
Previewing Black Hat Europe 2022 in London: 12 Hot Sessions
Black Hat Europe returns to London, offering deep dives into the latest cybersecurity research and trends, including how to build an open, transparent, but also secure internet; harvesting zero-day flaws before attackers; what we can learn from "metaparasitical" scammers who scam scammers; and more. → Read More
No Pressure: Water Utility Drips Alert 4 Months After Breach
Is a four-month delay between learning your systems were breached and notifying affected customers acceptable? After spotting an attack in August, private utility South Staffordshire Water in England is only beginning to alert customers that they're at risk of identity theft.. → Read More
Cybercrime Carnage: Cryptocurrency-Targeting Attacks Abound
While the cybercrime story for 2022 has yet to be fully written, cryptocurrency theft will no doubt have a starring role. Buoyed by the collective pilfering of billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency this year, what's to stop attackers from doubling down in 2023? → Read More
AxLocker Ransomware Adds a Twist: Stealing Discord Tokens
Newly spotted AxLocker ransomware, before crypto-locking systems, also steals Discord tokens, which can be sold on cybercrime markets. Among Discord's many users → Read More
Remembering Vitali Kremez, Threat Intelligence Researcher
Tributes are being paid to Vitali Kremez, who has died at the age of 36 in a suspected scuba-diving accident. The renowned threat intelligence expert, born in Belarus, had long tracked Russian cybercrime syndicates and was part of an ad hoc group established to counter ransomware and help victims. → Read More