Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach

Personal and financial data describing almost 1.9 million Apria Healthcare patients and employees may have been accessed by crooks who breached the company’s networks over a series of months in 2019 and 2021. The home healthcare equipment provider, which says Read More …

After a Cyber Attack: Dos and Don’ts for Higher Education IT Staff

For most colleges and universities, it’s a question of when, not if, they will experience a cyber attack. Here are seven key considerations for handling the aftermath of a breach. There is a treasure trove of sensitive and valuable information Read More …

Energy giant warns of ‘catastrophic damage’ if government bans payment of cyber ransoms

A government-imposed ban on companies paying cyber ransoms to hackers could cause “catastrophic damage” and even lead to the loss of Australian lives, the nation’s biggest energy producer has warned. AGL Energy, whose board was recently reshuffled by Atlassian billionaire Read More …

Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2022-21894: The BlackLotus campaign

This guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus. UEFI bootkits are particularly dangerous as they run Read More …

Latitude Financial refuses to pay cyber-attack ransom demands

Finance company Latitude Financial says it will not give in to ransom demands by cyber criminals behind one of Australia’s largest cyber-attacks. Almost 8 million driver’s licenses of Australian and New Zealand customers have been stolen including more than 6 Read More …

UK criminal records office suffers two-month “cyber security incident”

The UK’s national office for managing criminal record information (ACRO) has confirmed it’s currently trying to recover from a two-month “cyber security incident”. Few details were revealed by the organisation and other authorities, other than that the attack took place Read More …

Untitled Goose Tool Aids Hunt and Incident Response in Azure, Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft 365 Environments

Today, CISA released the Untitled Goose Tool to help network defenders detect potentially malicious activity in Microsoft Azure, Azure Active Directory (AAD), and Microsoft 365 (M365) environments. The Untitled Goose Tool offers novel authentication and data gathering methods for network Read More …