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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

April 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments aleksandr ermakov, Associated Press, Breadcrumbs, data breaches, embargo, Home Depot breach, jeffrey collins, mark keel, mazafaka, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nikki haley, rescator, shtazi, target breach, tax refund fraud, tax return fraud, the post and courier, u.s. internal revenue service, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:26:55 +0000

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.

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Introducing the Digital Footprint Portal

April 15, 2024 admin 0 Comments cybercrime, dark web, dark web marketplace, data breach, data breaches, Data Privacy, digital footprint, digital footprint portal, Hacker, hackers, Identity, Malwarebytes, passport, Scammer, scammers, Social Security numbers

Find out what sensitive data of yours is exposed online today with our new, free Digital Footprint Portal.

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Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense

April 15, 2024 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, data breaches, Nicholas Weaver, sangram dash, sisense breach, The Coming Storm, u.s. cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:48:06 +0000

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense, whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of multiple third-party online services in a single dashboard. CISA urged all Sisense customers to reset any credentials and secrets that may have been shared with the company, which is the same advice Sisense gave to its customers Wednesday evening.

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BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment by Change Healthcare

March 5, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, change healthcare, data breaches, dmitry smilyanets, emsisoft, fabian wosar, FBI, lockbit, NCA, optum, ramp, ransomware, Recorded Future, wired.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:22:56 +0000

There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. “ALPHV”) as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks. However, the cybercriminal who claims to have given BlackCat access to Change’s network says the crime gang cheated them out of their share of the ransom, and that they still have the sensitive data that Change reportedly paid the group to destroy. Meanwhile, the affiliate’s disclosure appears to have prompted BlackCat to cease operations entirely.

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Fulton County, Security Experts Call LockBit’s Bluff

February 29, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, brett callow, data breaches, emsisoft, FBI, fulton county hack, lockbit, lockbitsupp, NCA, ransomware, redsense, robb pitts

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:18:54 +0000

The ransomware group LockBit told officials with Fulton County, Ga. they could expect to see their internal documents published online this morning unless the county paid a ransom demand. Instead, LockBit removed Fulton County’s listing from its victim shaming website this morning, claiming county officials had paid. But county officials said they did not pay, nor did anyone make payment on their behalf. Security experts say LockBit was likely bluffing and probably lost most of the data when the gang’s servers were seized this month by U.S. and U.K. law enforcement.

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Identity theft is number one threat for consumers, says report

February 28, 2024 admin bsi, data breaches, data brokers, Identity Theft, information stealer, news, personal

The German BSI has published its 2023 state of IT security report which names identity theft as the main threat for consumers.

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

February 28, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, citizen lab, dakota cary, data breaches, i-soon, mei danowski, Ne'er-Do-Well News, poison carp, sentinelone, u.s. department of justice, will thomas, wu haibo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:27:47 +0000

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry.

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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

February 14, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, data breaches, Hold Security, Latest Warnings, securence, travis carter, u.s. internet corp.

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:45:46 +0000

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser.

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