Canadian authorities arrested a suspected extortionist tied to the hacking theft of terabytes of data from clients of cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake. Charges against the suspect, Alexander Moucka, aka Connor Moucka, have yet to be publicly detailed.
A small community hospital and its nursing home in rural Georgia have resorted to paper charts and other manual process for patient care as they deal with a ransomware attack discovered Saturday that knocked its electronic health records and other IT systems offline.
Australia's Western Sydney University said hackers breached its student management system and data warehouse to steal students' demographic and enrollment information in the third data theft incident of 2024. The hacker gained unauthorized access by compromising an IT account.
This week: S&P said poor material vulnerability remediaton can be a material risk factor, OnePoint in the United States and French ISP Free suffered data breaches, a Russian court sentenced REvil members, Five Eyes published security guidelines for small businesses.
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Ken Soh, group CIO at BH Global, and John Lee, managing director at GRF, discuss how the rise of smaller renewable energy producers and smart grid initiatives is forcing a rethink of traditional cybersecurity frameworks.
The foreign minister of Italy condemned Monday as a threat to democracy the private investigation firm that prosecutors in Milan say illegally accessed government databases for years to assemble illicit dossiers. Four individuals are under house arrest.
In this episode of Information Security Media Group's new monthly series, "Insights APAC," ISMG editors discuss the top cybersecurity developments in the region, including a mega breach of healthcare records in India and how experts are tacking fraud and money laundering in the Asia-Pacific.
An international crackdown against two prominent strains of information-stealing malware continues, as the U.S. government unsealed an indictment charging Russian national Maxim Rudometov with being a developer and administrator of the Redline infostealer tied to millions of stolen credentials.
Derek Manky, chief security strategist and vice president for global threat intelligence at Fortinet, shares the importance of public-private partnerships in cybersecurity. There's a lot of vetted interest and mutual benefit in such partnerships, and the will to move forward is strong, he said.
The Indian prime minister is warning citizens to be on the lookout for "digital arrest" scams in which cybercriminals pose as government officials or policemen to trap victims on phone calls and extort them into paying fake fines or court fees. Citizens lost $14.2 million in such scams this year.
The Dutch National Police, working with the FBI, say they've disrupted the Redline and Meta info-stealing malware services after obtaining "full access" to them, including source code and extensive details pertaining to their users, with follow-on "legal actions" now "underway."
Singapore regulators gave banks six months to institute real-time detection tools for blocking impersonation scams or else assume liability for stolen funds. A finalized framework published Thursday also shifts liability onto island-nation telecoms unless they block fraudulent SMS messages
This week, bulk data transfers to China, credit card theft, the Internet Archive still recovering and the Change Healthcare tally is now 100M. Ukraine fought phishers, civil society against the UN cybercrime treaty, TA866 and virtual hard drives spread malware. Google verified Sir Isaac Newton.
A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in connection with his role in the malware-as-a-service Raccoon info stealer criminal operation. Dutch authorities extradited him in February after arresting him in March 2022.
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