McAfee researchers discovered a cyber espionage campaign involving Chinese Red Delta and Mustang Panda hackers trying to steal 5G technology secrets using a fake Huawei website.
The McLaren Health Care data breach impacted nearly 2.2 million patient records. The company confirmed the intrusion and unauthorized data access occurred in July-August 2023 and was discovered in Oct 2023. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for the apparent ransomware attack.
Chicago based meal kit service Home Chef suffered a data breach likely to be orchestrated by hacking group Shiny Hunters which resulted in over 8 million user records being sold on dark web marketplace.
Law enforcement agencies purchasing illicit breach data from SpyCloud, presumably for use in investigations, raising questions of due legal process by these agencies.
American media giant Lee Enterprise has confirmed that the February cyber incident that disrupted operations including newspaper circulation was a ransomware attack by Qilin cyber gang.
Medibank has opted to ignore demands for ransom payments for the recent data breach of about 9.7 million health data records. Criminals have published a fraction of the stolen data on the dark web, including those of high-profile politicians.
Medical data leaks are among the fastest-growing segments of cyber crime, and for good reason. Health care systems tend to operate on outdated systems that have inadequate security elements.
An April data breach of prescription provider MediSecure has been confirmed to have exposed about 12.9 million records, making it one of the largest in Australian history.
The Medusa ransomware gang is claiming responsibility for an alleged NASCAR data breach that allegedly leaked one terabyte of data.
A massive supply chain attack dubbed Megalodon has infected over 5,500 GitHub repositories with credential-stealing malware, creating backdoors and automated workflows.
