Ireland’s health service, the HSE, says they are refusing to pay a $20 million ransom demand to the Conti ransomware gang after the hackers encrypted computers and disrupted health care in the country. Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), the country’s publicly funded healthcare system, shut down all of their IT systems on Friday after suffering a…
US cybersecurity firm Rapid7 has disclosed that some source code repositories were accessed in a security incident linked to the supply-chain attack that recently impacted customers of the popular Codecov code coverage tool. The computer and network security company has already notified a “small subset of customers” potentially impacted by this breach to take measures…
The FBI’s IC3 reports COVID-related scams and an increase in online retail may be behind the upswing in complaints. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has logged one million complaints related to online scams in the last 14 months, bringing the IC3 to a total of six million complaints logged. For context, the agency…
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Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management ‘It Was the Right Thing to Do for the Country’ Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 19, 2021 Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount (Photo: Colonial Pipeline Co.) Colonial Pipeline Co.’s CEO, Joseph Blount, said Wednesday that he authorized…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Elliptic Says It Traced Payments by Colonial Pipeline and Many Others Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 18, 2021 Ransom payment amounts generated by DarkSide ransomware (Source: Elliptic) The DarkSide ransomware gang apparently collected over $90 million in ransom payments from about…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Dragos: Oldsmar City Employee Visited Rigged Site, But There’s No Connection to Incident Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • May 19, 2021 The city hall of Oldsmar, Florida (Photo: City of Oldsmar) Investigators at industrial cybersecurity specialist Dragos say an employee of the…
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Avaddon ransomware gang is threatening to carry out DDoS attacks and data leaks if AXA did not corporate with the attackers. French insurance giant AXA Group announced on Sunday that the company has become a victim of a ransomware attack. The incident affected its IT operations of Asia Assistance in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and…
Matt Gaetz’s longtime friend and partner in alleged crimes Joel Greenberg has pleaded guilty to six of the charges against him: identity theft, stalking, wire fraud, conspiracy to bribe a public official, and sex trafficking of a minor. While all of those crimes are incredibly serious, that last one carries a mandatory minimum sentence of…
