- Debt collection agency FBCS leaks information of 3 million US citizens
June 4, 2024
The US debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) has filed a data breach notification, listing the the total number of people affected as 3,226,631. FBCS is a nationally licensed, third-party collection agency that collects commercial and consumer debts, with most of its activity involving the recovery of consumer debts on behalf of creditors. ...
- Scammers Defraud Individuals via Work-From-Home Scams
June 4, 2024
The FBI warns of scammers offering victims fake work-from-home jobs, typically involving a relatively simple task, such as rating restaurants or “optimizing” a service by repeatedly clicking a button. The scammers pose as a legitimate business, such as a staffing or recruiting agency,and may contact victims via an unsolicited call or message. Scammers design the fake ...
- The Dreaded Network Pivot: An Attack Intelligence Story
June 4, 2024
Rapid7 recently released our 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, a 14-month deep dive into the vulnerability and attacker landscape. The spiritual successor to their annual Vulnerability Intelligence Report, the AIR includes data from the Rapid7 research team combined with their detection and response and threat intelligence teams. It is designed to provide the clearest view yet into ...
- Hospitals in London declared critical incident after cyber-attack
June 4, 2024
Major hospitals in London have declared a critical incident after a cyber-attack led to operations being cancelled and emergency patients being diverted elsewhere. It applies to hospitals partnered with Synnovis – a provider of pathology services. King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ – including the Royal Brompton and the Evelina London Children’s Hospital – and ...
- The impact of legacy vulnerabilities in today’s cybersecurity landscape
June 4, 2024
Of the top five most widely used network attacks against SMBs, the ‘newest’ vulnerability represented were nearly three years old, while the oldest were over a decade old – which is primitive when considering the modern threat environment. The results are a clear reminder for CISOs and cybersecurity leaders that they must assess organizational threats based ...
- UK: The Princess of Wales’s hospital data breach not referred to police due to suspected ‘decoy’ plan
June 3, 2024
The Princess of Wales’s hospital data breach has not been referred to police as an expert explains that a “decoy” plan could have been in use – meaning her actual medical files were not accessed by the perpetrators. Despite Health Minister Maria Caulfield revealing back in March that the police had been asked to look into ...
- Ticketmaster confirms customer data breach
June 1, 2024
Live Nation Entertainment has confirmed what everyone has been speculating on for the last week: Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. In a filing with the SEC, Live Nation said on May 20th it identified “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing Company data (primarily from its Ticketmaster L.L.C. subsidiary)” and launched an investigation. ...
- Santander data breach: 30m account and credit card details up for sale on dark web
June 1, 2024
According to reports, Santander customer and staff data has been put up for sale on the dark web. The details relate to the data leak reported earlier in May. Data leaked included HR details for staff, 30m customers’ bank account details, and 28m credit card numbers. The bank, which is the eurozone’s second-largest lender, has around ...
- Europol: Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem
May 30, 2024
Between 27 and 29 May 2024 Operation Endgame, coordinated from Europol’s headquarters, targeted droppers including, IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot. The actions focused on disrupting criminal services through arresting High Value Targets, taking down the criminal infrastructures and freezing illegal proceeds. This approach had a global impact on the dropper ecosystem. The malware, whose ...
- Northern Ireland: Disabled former police officers to receive damages for alleged data breach
May 30, 2024
Disabled former policemen and women in Northern Ireland are to receive undisclosed damages for an alleged data breach, their lawyer revealed today. Financial settlements were reached in legal action against the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Proceedings related to an investigation by the Commission into the workings of the Disabled Police Officers’ Association back in 2014. ...