Infosecurity News

Cybercrime Cops Arrest NHS Workers
Metropolitan police investigating suspected fake COVID-19 vaccination records arrest NHS employees

BEC Attack on Monongalia Health System
Cyber-thieves steal from West Virginia-based healthcare provider by impersonating vendor

Russian Cyber Exec Extradited After Alleged Trading Conspiracy
The quartet is said to have made tens of millions after hacking SEC filing firms

Ubisoft Reveals Player Data Breach Came from User Error
IT misconfiguration enabled attackers to access network

US Returns $150m to Sony After Employee BEC Attack
The $150m embezzled from a Sony subsidiary was converted into bitcoin

US Sentences Money Launderer Linked to QQAAZZ
Russian who conspired to launder money stolen from cybercrime victims gets time served

Desjardins Proposes $155m Data Breach Settlement
Canadian financial company endeavors to settle class-action suit over long-running data breach

Escalation in Healthcare Data Breaches
2021 on track to become the worst year for health sector data breaches in US history

Ransomware Threat Just as Urgent as Terrorism, Say Two-Thirds of IT Pros
Over two-thirds of organizations experienced a ransomware attack over the past 12 months

Meta Sues to Disrupt Prolific Phishing Campaign
Facebook parent company wants to unmask cyber-criminals

UK Cyber Cops Share 225 Million Passwords with Breach Site
HaveIBeenPwned password database expands by around a third

British Council Struck by Two Ransomware Attacks in Five Years
The British Council suffered two successful ransomware attacks in the past five years, leading to 12 days of downtime

Scam Phishing Network Costs Victims $80m Per Month
Group-IB warns one-off targeted links are harder to detect and take down

Nurse Arrested in Hacking Investigation
CSAM found on computer of nurse investigated over cyber-attack on former employer

Cyber-Attack Impacts Aussie Companies
Government agencies and companies in Australia affected by breach of recruitment company’s data

Hackers Can Penetrate 93% of Local Networks
The study revealed cyber-attackers can breach 93% of organizations’ network perimeters and gain access to their resources

Tech Companies to Protect Data on Undersea Cable
Google and Meta agree to safeguard data on fiber-optic cable joining US with Southeast Asia

Ransomware Gang Publishes Confidential Police Data on the Dark Web
Data held on the UK police national computer have been posted on the dark web

Ukrainian War Games Test Electricity Grid
Sans Institute exercise reportedly sees defenders get hands-on practice

Execs Get 16+ Years After SBA Fraud Scheme
Conspiracy ran for 13 years



