Security News > 2024 > February
An Ottawa man convicted on charges related to a ransomware attack affecting hundreds of victims was sentenced to two years behind bars on Friday. The number of ransomware victims paying ransom demands has dropped to a record low of 29% in the final quarter of 2023, according to ransomware negotiation firm Coveware.
AnyDesk confirmed today that it suffered a recent cyberattack that allowed hackers to gain access to the company's production systems. In a statement shared with BleepingComputer late Friday afternoon, AnyDesk says they first learned of the attack after detecting indications of an incident on their product servers.
AnyDesk confirmed today that it suffered a recent cyberattack that allowed hackers to gain access to the company's production systems. In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, AnyDesk says they first learned of the attack after detecting indications of an incident on their product servers.
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Blackbaud, which had data on millions of people stolen from it by one or more crooks, has promised to shore up its IT defenses in a proposed deal with the FTC. In announcing the draft settlement, the US watchdog's boss Lina Khan, Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, and Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya blasted Blackbaud - a cloud software provider for schools, charities, and other orgs - for its "Unfair and deceptive data security practices" in a statement [PDF]. "The FTC charges that Blackbaud's reckless data retention practices rendered its security failures much more costly: by hoarding reams of data that it did not reasonably need, Blackbaud's breach exposed far more data," they said.
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Mastodon has called admins to action following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability affecting the decentralized social network favored by erstwhile Twitter lovers. "Every Mastodon version prior to 3.5.17 is vulnerable, as well as 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.13, 4.1.x version prior to 4.1.13, and 4.2.x versions prior to 4.2.5.".
Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago was forced to take IT systems offline after a cyberattack, disrupting normal operations and delaying medical care in some instances. Lurie Children's is a Chicago-based pediatric acute care hospital with 360 beds, 1,665 physicians covering 70 sub-specialties, and 4,000 medical staff and employees.
Aliaksandr Klimenka, a Belarusian and Cypriot national, has been indicted in the U.S. for his involvement in an international cybercrime money laundering operation. The U.S. DoJ alleged back then that the platform was used to launder funds stolen during the hack of Japanese crypto exchange platform Mt. Gox, as well as ransom payments for the Locky, Cerber, NotPetya, WannaCry, and Spora ransomware operations.
Russian state-sponsored actors have staged NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hash relay attacks through various methods from April 2022 to November 2023, targeting high-value targets worldwide. The...