Rhode Island: Data breach at Wyatt steals info of detainees, staff and vendors

At least 1,454 detainees of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, 438 current and former staff members and 92 vendors have been affected by a virus in the facility’s computer system, Wyatt announced Friday. The FBI is now investigating the Read More …

Cyberattack forces First American to take some IT systems offline

First American, one of the largest insurance companies in the United States, suffered a malware attack that forced the company to shut some of its systems down, including its website. At press time, the official website firstam.com was still offline, Read More …

Why Is an Australian Footballer Collecting My Passwords?

Unit 42 researchers have observed threat actors using malicious JavaScript samples to steal sensitive information by abusing popular survey sites, low-quality hosting and web chat APIs. In some campaigns, attackers created chatbots that they registered to someone noteworthy such as Read More …

Seedworm: Iranian Hackers Target Telecoms Organisations in North and East Africa

Iranian espionage group Seedworm (aka Muddywater) has been targeting organizations operating in the telecommunications sector in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania. Seedworm has been active since at least 2017, and has targeted organizations in many countries, though it is most strongly Read More …

Threat Actors Exploit CVE-2017-11882 To Deliver Agent Tesla

First discovered in 2014, Agent Tesla is an advanced keylogger with features like clipboard logging, screen keylogging, screen capturing, and extracting stored passwords from different web browsers. Recently, Zscaler ThreatLabz detected a threat campaign where threat actors leverage CVE-2017-11882 XLAM Read More …

#StopRansomware: ALPHV Blackcat

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate known IOCs and TTPs associated with the ALPHV Blackcat ransomware as a service (RaaS) identified through FBI investigations as Read More …

Operation HAECHI IV: USD 300 million seized and 3,500 suspects arrested in international financial crime operation

LYON, FRANCE – A transcontinental police operation against online financial crime has concluded with almost 3,500 arrests and seizures of USD 300 million (approx. EUR 273 million) worth of assets across 34 countries. The six-month Operation HAECHI IV (July-December 2023) Read More …

Mr. Cooper leaks personal data of 14 million loan and mortgage customers

A major mortgage and loan company based in Dallas, working under the name Mr. Cooper Group Inc. has released more information on a recent breach. In a data breach notification, the company didn’t say what type of cyberattack caused the Read More …