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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

April 15, 2024 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, august.com, chirp systems, Latest Warnings, matt brown, ProPublica, realpage inc., Security Tools, u.s. cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:51:17 +0000

The U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, Inc., is being sued by multiple U.S. states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents.

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Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry

April 18, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, conti, emotet, emsisoft, errol weiss, FBI, h-isac, health information sharing & analysis center, healthcare information and management systems society, microsoft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, proofpoint, ransomware, ryuk, Sophos, u.s. cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency, Zloader

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:41:08 +0000

Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other healthcare facilities since first surfacing in 2018 under the name “Ryuk.”