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Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management 90 Days After Vulnerability ID Reserved, REvil Exploited Bug to Hit Kaseya Customers Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 6, 2021     Kaseya’s vulnerability disclosure page on its website Ransomware-wielding criminals continue to hone their illicit business models,…

Financial software company Intuit has notified TurboTax customers that some of their personal and financial information was accessed by attackers following what looks like a series of account takeover attacks. In a breach notification letter sent to affected customers earlier this month, the company said that this was not a “systemic data breach of Intuit.”…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Those entrusted with securing the nation’s voting systems must remain nonpartisan as a myriad of complex and growing risks continue to threaten U.S. elections, one of the nation’s top cybersecurity officials said Saturday. Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in an interview with The Associated…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company’s IT Team Was Unaware the VPN Exploited to Gain Entry Existed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 8, 2021     Colonial Pipeline Co. CEO Joseph Blount testifying on Tuesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Colonial Pipeline Co. CEO Joseph Blount defended his…

McDonald’s has suffered from a data breach that has impacted customers and employees located in South Korea and Taiwan. The breach, which was the result of a cyberattack, also affected company operations in the United States. An unauthorized third party allegedly broke into the system of McDonald’s Cope. and accessed a relatively small number of…

Alla Witte and her associates are accused of using Trickbot to infect tens of millions of computers around the world, the Justice Department reports. The US government has charged a Latvian woman for her role in creating the Trickbot malware.  Alla Witte was charged in federal court in Cleveland with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment. The indictment…