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Water is still safe to drink, it confirms American Water, which supplies over 14 million people in the US and numerous military bases, has stopped issuing bills and has taken its MyWater app...
American Water, the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, was forced to shut down some of its systems after a Thursday cyberattack. [...]
Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to A survey of nearly 700 CISOs in the US and Canada has found their pay has risen over the past year to an average of $565,000 and a median...
No, Abbey is not really a "pure patriotic girl" Spamouflage, the Beijing-linked trolls known for spreading fake news about American politics, is back with new accounts on X and TikTok that claim...
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) paid a $1 million ransom for a decryptor that helped restore systems encrypted in a May ransomware attack [...]
Evolve Bank & Trust (Evolve) is sending notices of a data breach to 7.6 million Americans whose data was stolen during a recent LockBit ransomware attack. [...]
Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio. Mekotio, known to be actively put to use since 2015, is known to target Latin American countries like Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Peru, and Portugal with an aim to steal banking credentials.
Recent cyberattacks targeting the nation's healthcare system have demonstrated the vulnerability of hospitals and payment systems. In January of 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services launched a healthcare cybersecurity gateway website to simplify access to the Department's healthcare-specific cybersecurity information and resources and published voluntary Healthcare and Public Health Cybersecurity Performance Goals designed to help healthcare institutions plan and prioritize high-impact cybersecurity practices.
A large-scale phishing campaign is using an unusual lure to earn at least $900,000 by tricking email recipients into believing they're about to receive a baby grand piano for free. The campaign, discovered by email security firm Proofpoint, was launched in January 2024 and has distributed over 125,000 emails, mainly targeting North American university students and faculty.
First American Financial Corporation, the second-largest title insurance company in the United States, revealed Tuesday that a December cyberattack led to a breach impacting 44,000 individuals. As the financial services company shared in a statement published on December 21 providing very few details regarding the nature of the incident, First American was forced to take some of its systems offline today to contain the impact of a cyberattack.