The growing list of MOVEit cyberattack victims has grown. Sixty-two clients of Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young now appear on the Clop ransomware group's data leak site. A spokesperson for Ernst & Young confirmed that a "limited" attack on the company's systems had occurred.
A new malware campaign powered with multistage attack methodology is targeting businesses in the LATAM region using specially crafted modules. The newly identified Trojan, dubbed Toitoin, follows a six-stage attack plan in which each stage is custom-designed to carry out malicious activities.
Spanish law enforcement authorities said they have brought down a cybercriminal ring that deployed a range of hacking techniques to target banking customers. The group operators extorted 100,000 euros and offered crime as a service to other criminals, the police said.
Information on up to 11 million patients of hospital chain HCA Healthcare is up for sale on a dark web forum. HCA Healthcare on Monday confirmed an incident involving data theft from an external location used to automate the formatting of email messages but said it is still investigating.
A security researcher discovered a Bangladesh government web portal that exposed the personal information of about 50 million citizens, including their birth registration records, phone numbers and national identity numbers. His efforts to notify the government of the security flaw went unanswered.
North American cybersecurity agencies are warning about a new variant of the Truebot Trojan that collects and exfiltrates information from victims. The new variant attacks a known critical-severity vulnerability - a remote code execution vulnerability in the Netwrix Auditor.
Hacking incidents, including those involving ransomware attacks or vendors, that affect tens of millions of individuals, continue to account for the majority of health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year. What are the other emerging breach trends?
The personal information of nearly 35 million Indonesian passport holders is up for sale on the dark web for $10,000 by notorious hacktivist Bjorka, who routinely criticizes the Indonesian government, publishing damaging information about lawmakers on social media. The government is investigating.
International law enforcement agencies say they arrested the mastermind of a French-speaking cybercriminal syndicate dubbed Opera1er for carrying out more than 30 successful attacks against financial institutions, banks, mobile banking services and telecommunications companies.
Organizations need to adopt a creative approach when building policies around the legal, commercial and reputational risks raised by generative AI tools - such as with privacy, consumer protection and contractual obligations, said legal expert Anna King of Markel.
A Chinese nation-state group is hacking foreign affairs ministries and embassies across Europe, employing a sophisticated HTML-smuggling technique to deliver the insidious PlugX remote access Trojan to compromised systems. The technique raises concern about the security of diplomatic institutions.
A hacker suspected to be based in Mexico is targeting financial institutions using "relatively unsophisticated" tools but is achieving a high degree of success among banking customers, SentinelOne said. The threat actor also offers smishing as a service.
CISO Ian Thornton-Trump said he is opportunistic about using chatbots but warns that the technology needs oversight and testing to ensure "the responses that it's giving are accurate and the information it's able to access is also pertinent to the questions that are commonly asked."
Russia has relied on blunt-force cyberattacks in Ukraine to inflict maximum damage rather than turning to new techniques. In many cases, Ukrainian defenders are flying blind because Russian wiper malware is designed to evade most security controls, said Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia.
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