Most signs suggest the group is running a massive hoax by claiming hundreds of initial victims, but at least some of the threat 0APT poses is grounded in truth backed by proven capabilities.
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One of the sad truths about this world of seemingly endless hacks and data breaches is that companies just won’t apologise. Even when customers, partners, and employees are left wondering when their data will be published by malicious hackers on the dark web, breached organisations will seemingly do everything they can to avoid saying what…
A financially motivated threat group posing as IT support has intruded the systems of about 20 organizations by duping employees into installing a malicious, illegitimate version of Salesforce’s Data Loader and granting broader access to cloud-based environments, Google Threat Intelligence Group said in a threat report released Wednesday. The attacks, which Google attributes to UNC6040,…
A financially motivated threat group posing as IT support has intruded the systems of about 20 organizations by duping employees into installing a malicious, illegitimate version of Salesforce’s Data Loader and granting broader access to cloud-based environments, Google Threat Intelligence Group said in a threat report released Wednesday. The attacks, which Google attributes to UNC6040,…
A financially motivated threat group posing as IT support has intruded the systems of about 20 organizations by duping employees into installing a malicious, illegitimate version of Salesforce’s Data Loader and granting broader access to cloud-based environments, Google Threat Intelligence Group said in a threat report released Wednesday. The attacks, which Google attributes to UNC6040,…
Prosecutors say the hacker stole information on 60 million students, an incident that matches the data breach at PowerSchool.
Coinbase responded to a security incident with combative measures Thursday after the company said cybercriminals bribed some of the cryptocurrency exchange’s international support staff to steal data on customers. The unnamed threat group stole personally identifiable information and other sensitive data on less than 1% of Coinbase’s monthly users, the company said in a blog…
Five months after education software vendor PowerSchool paid an unnamed threat actor a ransom in exchange for the deletion of sensitive stolen data, some of the company’s customers are now receiving extortion demands. A threat actor, who may or not be the same criminal group behind the attack, has contacted four school district customers of…
Federal authorities extradited a Ukrainian citizen to the United States on Wednesday to face charges for participating in a series of ransomware cyberattacks on organizations based in the U.S. and multiple European countries. Artem Stryzhak, 35, was arrested in Spain in June 2024 and was scheduled to appear for arraignment Thursday in the U.S. District…
Two alleged leaders of the child sextortion group 764 were arrested and charged for directing and distributing child sexual abuse material, the Department of Justice said Thursday. Leonidas Varagiannis, 21, and Prasan Nepal, 20, face charges that carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. Varagiannis, also known as “War,” and Nepal, also known as…
The FBI and threat researchers are warning executives to be on the lookout for physical letters in the mail threatening to leak sensitive corporate data. The letters, which are stamped “time sensitive read immediately” and shipped directly to executives through the Postal Service, are part of a nationwide scam designed to extort victims into paying…
Cybercriminals intentionally disrupted operations at a growing rate last year, Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence firm Unit 42 said in an annual incident response report released Tuesday. Of the nearly 500 major cyberattacks Unit 42 responded to last year, 86% involved business disruption, including operational downtime, fraud-related losses, increased operating costs and negative reputational impacts. …
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A trove of information on current and former students and teachers was accessed during the December cyberattack, sources say © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
From LoanDepot to Evolve Bank and Blue Yonder, these ransomware attacks affect tens of millions of people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.