UC San Diego Health Breach Tied to Phishing Attack
Employee email takeover exposed personal, medical data of students, employees and patients.
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Employee email takeover exposed personal, medical data of students, employees and patients.
Authorities opened an investigation into the secretive Israeli security firm.
Hackers are stealing the identities of those lost in the condo-collapse tragedy. Families mourning the loss of loved ones to the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla. are now being urged to check the credit of their deceased relatives thanks to a group of . . . Read more
The attackers have spruced up the ‘vncDll’ module used for spying on targets and stealing data. The Trickbot trojan is in resurgence mode, with its operators filling out infrastructure globally and releasing an updated version of its “vncDll” module, used for monitoring and intelligence gathering, researchers said. According to an . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin We’ve written several times before about home delivery scams, where cybercriminals take advantage of our ever-increasing (and, in coronavirus times, often unavoidable) use of online ordering combined with to-the-doorstep delivery. Over the past year or so, we’ve noticed what we must grudgingly admit is a gradual improvement . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin [00’21”] The “Independence Day Weekend” ransomware drama. [15’55”] The PrintNightmare nightmare continues. [24’16”] An email hacker gets his conviction overturned. [30’35”] In this week’s Oh! No! story, a server room fills with toxic fumes… With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Download the IBM 3270 retrofont that Duck admired in the podcast. Intro and outro . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin In this special splintersode, Kimberly Truong talks to Eva Galperin, Director of Security at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Eva Galperin, Director of Security, EFF Join Eva as she discusses growing up with cryptography, the troubling issue of stalkerware, how to get started in cybersecurity… and the sort . . . Read more
LimeVPN has confirmed a data incident, and meanwhile its website has been knocked offline. The VPN provider known as LimeVPN has been hit with a hack affecting 69,400 user records, according to researchers. A hacker claims to have stolen the company’s entire customer database before knocking its website offline (Threatpost . . . Read more
A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has popped up in a popular hacker forum that the vast amount of lifted data is being collated and . . . Read more
A GAO report finds government agencies are using the technology regularly in criminal investigations and to identify travelers, but need stricter management to protect people’s privacy and avoid inaccurate identification Though the federal government widely uses facial recognition for various uses from criminal investigations to collecting traveler data, this use . . . Read more