L.A. Courts Owe Public Full Accounting After July Ransomware Attack

The Los Angeles Superior Court has an enormous data and online system that for years remained too vulnerable to hackers. The court began stepping up its monitoring, defenses and response operations less than two years ago, and it belatedly brought Read More …

How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data breach, a “substantial proportion of Read More …

FBI: Ransomware Disruptions during Voting Periods Will Not Impact the Security and Resiliency of Vote Casting or Counting

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this announcement to inform the public that while ransomware attacks against state or local government networks or election infrastructure could cause localized delays, they Read More …

T-Mobile Fined $60 Million to Settle Alleged National Security Violations

Wireless company T-Mobile US has agreed to pay about $60 million to settle allegations it failed to promptly report incidents of unauthorized data access in violation of a national security agreement that allowed its merger with rival Sprint, according to Read More …

UK, US supervise Ukrainian scam call centers – Russian Interior Ministry

The special services of the United Kingdom and the United States control and supervise Ukrainian scam call centers, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry said. “The most important thing is that they [scam call centers] are fully controlled by Read More …

Enzo Biochem ordered to cough up $4.5 million over lousy security that led to ransomware disaster

Biotech biz Enzo Biochem is being forced to pay three state attorneys general a $4.5 million penalty following a 2023 ransomware attack that compromised the data of more than 2.4 million people. New York’s attorney general Letitia James announced the Read More …

FBI investigating attempts to hack Biden-Harris and Trump campaigns

Federal investigators are looking into whether Iranian hackers targeted individuals associated with the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns, three people familiar with the investigation confirmed to CBS News. The FBI launched the probes in the early summer, after both presidential campaigns Read More …

UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts

London’s Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well. “We will throw the full force of the law at Read More …

Royal Ransomware Actors Rebrand as “BlackSuit”

The FBI and CISA recently published an update to the joint Cybersecurity Advisory “#StopRansomware: Royal Ransomware.” The updated advisory provides network defenders with recent and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with BlackSuit Read More …