An ongoing phishing campaign has compromised Twilio, Mailchimp and about 130 other organizations by using a lookalike Okta login page to trick employees into divulging their password and multi-factor authentication code. Researchers have traced the attacks to a 22-year-old suspect in North Carolina.
Cyber criminals are running scripting attacks on e-commerce sites that attempt to complete small payments by automatically inputting payment card numbers based on the Ally Bank identification number. There are no indications of a data breach at Ally Bank, says a source close to the fraud detection.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to fuel new opportunities for cybercriminals, malicious insiders and other adversaries who are posing new security threats to the privacy of patient health data, says attorney Erik Weinick of law firm Otterbourg P.C.
Retailer Sephora has been fined $1.2 million as part of a settlement agreement with California's attorney general, over accusations that it violated the California Consumer Privacy Act by failing to disclose that it was selling customers' data and not honoring their opt-out requests.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses how ransomware-as-a-service groups are shifting their business models, how investigators battling cybercrime have been hindered by GDPR, and how employees consider workplace "choice" a key factor for job satisfaction.
An Iranian government-backed hacking group known as Charming Kitten has updated its malware arsenal to include an email inbox scraping tool, proof of the group's dedication to developing and maintaining purpose-built capabilities. The tool spoofs the user agent to look like an outdated browser.
Ragnar Locker ransomware group released 361 gigabytes of what appears to be confidential data belonging to Greek national natural gas operator DESFA. The threat group says the alleged victim did not negotiate with it. The company confirmed a cyberattack and said it would not pay the ransom.
A breach investigation into an incident initially appearing to affect only one individual has turned into a $300,640 HIPAA settlement for a dermatology practice that was subsequently discovered to be improperly disposing many patient information for more than a decade.
Cybersecurity experts have been reacting to industry veteran Peiter Zatko's allegations of poor information security practices at Twitter, with many noting that he's hardly the first expert to have been hired to remedy serious problems, only to say they were prevented from doing their job.
An online search by cybersecurity firm Cyfirma found more than 80,000 unpatched cameras made by Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability to add the cameras to a botnet or as a launching point for lateral movement deeper into the camera operator's network.
Attackers could take advantage of a misconfiguration in Palo Alto firewalls to launch amplification DDoS attacks, a vulnerability that led the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the vulnerability its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities.
A Texas-based hospital is apparently still contending with pressure to pay an extortion group that claims to have stolen patient data months ago, while a French medical center responds to a weekend attack and demands to pay a $10 million ransom.
Accenture analyzed the top 20 most active ransomware leak sites to see how threat actors are posting sensitive corporate information and making the data easy to search and exploit. Accenture's Robert Boyce explains how cybercriminals are weaponizing stolen ransomware data for follow-up attacks.
Twitter's former security chief, Peiter Zatko, aka "Mudge," filed a whistleblowing complaint against the social media giant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that "extreme, egregious deficiencies" in its cybersecurity remain unresolved.
Ransomware karma: The notorious LockBit 3.0 ransomware gang's site has been disrupted via a days-long distributed-denial-of-service attack, with administrator LockBitSupp reporting that it appears to be retribution for the gang leaking files stolen from a recent victim: security firm Entrust.
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