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The Hawaiʻi Community College has admitted that it paid a ransom to ransomware actors to prevent the leaking of stolen data of approximately 28,000 people. On June 19th, 2023, the relatively new NoEscape ransomware gang listed UH on its extortion portal, threatening to publish 65 GB of stolen data in a week if a ransom was not paid.
The ALPHV ransomware gang, also referred to as BlackCat, is trying to put more pressure on their victims to pay a ransom by providing an API for their leak site to increase visibility for their...
Citrix ADC zero-day exploitatation: CISA releases details about attack on CI organizationThe exploitation of the Citrix NetScaler ADC zero-day vulnerability was first spotted by a critical infrastructure organization, who reported it to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISOs under pressure: Protecting sensitive information in the age of high employee turnoverIn this Help Net Security interview, Charles Brooks, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs, talks about how zero trust principles, identity access management, and managed security services are crucial for effective cybersecurity, and how implementation of new technologies like AI, machine learning, and tracking tools can enhance supply chain security.
VirusTotal apologized on Friday for leaking the information of over 5,600 customers after an employee mistakenly uploaded a CSV file containing their info to the platform last month. The data leak impacted only Premium account customers, with the uploaded file containing their names and corporate email addresses.
Data associated with a subset of registered customers of VirusTotal, including their names and email addresses, have leaked on the internet. The security incident, which comprises a database of 5,600 names in a 313KB file, was first disclosed by Der Spiegel and Der Standard yesterday.
TV network's attorneys 'on a DMCA rampage' ... are you sure you're ready, kids? Nickelodeon says it is probing claims that "decades old" material was stolen from it and leaked online. This follows...
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida has ordered an emergency review of the nation's ID Cards, amid revelations of glitches and data leaks that threaten the government's digital services push. Japanese media reports that people with similar names are receiving cards intended for other people, while some recipients found the card links to records describing someone else.
The ransomware operation behind a cyberattack on the University of Manchester has begun to email students, warning that their data will soon be leaked after an extortion demand was not paid. The threat actors claim to have stolen 7 TB of data from the University of Manchester during a June 6th cyberattack in an email sent to students and shared with BleepingComputer.
An infosec incident at a major Australian law firm has sparked fear among the nation's governments, banks and businesses - and a free speech debate. The firm, HWL Ebsworth, has acknowledged that on April 28, "We became aware that a threat actor identified as ALPHV/BlackCat made a post on a dark web forum claiming to have exfiltrated data from HWL Ebsworth."
The Swiss government has disclosed that a recent ransomware attack on an IT supplier might have impacted its data, while today, it warns that it is now targeted in DDoS attacks. Last Tuesday, the Swiss government disclosed that they were impacted by a ransomware attack on Xplain, a Swiss technology provider supplying various government departments, administrative units, and even the country's military force with software solutions.