An international law enforcement operation resulted in the arrests of four botnet operators and the seizure of more than 100 servers used as infrastructure for malware dropper botnets. Armenian police arrested one person and Ukrainian police arrested three. German police are seeking eight suspects.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said the U.S. led an internationally coordinated effort to disrupt and dismantle what may be one of the world's largest malicious botnet services, which had accrued 19 million IP addresses by the time it was taken down and its primary administrator was arrested in May.
A local union representing medical professionals at an Ascension hospital in Michigan is demanding the organization take actions to protect patient safety in the wake of a cyberattack that took out electronic health records, forcing clinicians to use manual processes and paper charts.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Chinese national Yunhe Wang for his role in directing the 911 S5 botnet, which uses hacked residential computers as proxies and is often used to commit fraud. The government also sanctioned a co-conspirator and a real estate business associate.
Check Point Software Technologies has issued an emergency security update for its Security Gateways to fix a vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild to gain access to virtual private networks, as attackers' focus on attempting to exploit edge devices continues.
LockBit has begun to leak on its dark web site files of data the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang claims to have stolen in an April attack on London Drugs. The group had threatened to publish the exfiltrated data if the Canadian retail pharmacy chain does not pay a $25 million ransom demand.
Why bother building a crypto-locker when Microsoft has perfectly acceptable encryption software preloaded on desktops? Many ransomware hackers agree with that statement - and they're learning to make such attacks even harder to recover from.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority says it has filed proceedings against Optus in a federal court as the company failed to protect sensitive customer data during a data breach in September 2022. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is also investigating the incident.
Attackers backdoored versions of widely used audiovisual recording software being distributed by Justice AV Solutions via its official download site. Experts say users should "immediately" update to patched versions, review their IT environments for signs of compromise and wipe affected endpoints.
An Illinois-based air-ground ambulance company is notifying more than 858,000 individuals that their sensitive information was compromised in a hacking incident that happened about a year ago. The breach is the latest hack on an ambulance company reported to regulators in recent weeks.
This week, Fluent Bit contains a flaw, Microsoft is nuking VBScript, Irish police and the SEC face fines, a man was sentenced for BEC, a flaw was found in Netflix's Genie, an Australia university said it was breached and Black Basta claimed an attack, and hacker Alcasec was arrested again.
Cyberattackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect product, an open-source data integration platform widely used by healthcare companies, said CISA in an alert Monday. The flaw, which allows remote code execution, has been known since October 2023.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote in June on a series of proposed rules that aim to strengthen security measures for nine of the leading U.S. broadband providers, with a focus on mitigating major Border Gateway Protocol vulnerabilities.
U.S. officials have charged Rui-Siang Lin, also known as "Pharoah," with forming one of the most notorious online marketplaces for drug trafficking and selling over $100 million of narcotics globally since 2020. They arrested him at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on Saturday.
A Texas-based firm that provides health plan administration services is notifying more than 2.4 million individuals of a hacking incident and data theft that happened more than a year ago. Why did it take WebTPA so long to report that a breach occurred?
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