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US City of Columbus, Ohio claimed in Rhysida ransomware attack
More than 6T of sensitive data allegedly belonging to the City of Columbus, Ohio, is being auctioned off by the Rhysida ransomware group, apparently stolen by the gang during a July cyberattack.
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Cencora drug company admits more health data stolen in Feb hack
US wholesale drug distributor Cencora has revealed that the attackers responsible for a February data breach took more personal health information. The breach has since impacted at least 38 other healthcare companies, including Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer.
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“Indestructible” Tesla Cybertruck defeated by traffic pole
A TikTok user filmed the aftermath of a Tesla Cybertruck crash after the white EV wrapped itself around a traffic light pole in the US.
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Meta settles Texas facial recognition suit with $1.4 billion deal
Meta’s facial-recognition-based photo and video tagging feature is already defunct, but its lingering consequences are catching up with the social media giant. It will now lose $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit in Texas.
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DDoS attacks may target election infrastructure, FBI warns
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on election infrastructure and adjacent infrastructure that support election operations are likely and could hinder public access to information, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warn.
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Police confirm Tesla in ‘Full Self-Driving’ mode during fatal motorcycle crash
Just days after Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk touts the latest release of an updated Full Self-driving (FDS) software, Washington State Police determine that a Tesla sedan involved in a fatal April crash had FDS on when it crashed into the motorcyclist..
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Third-party ransomware attack forces 300 Indian banks offline
India’s banking regulators on Wednesday were forced to isolate over 300 Indian banks after a ransomware attack targets third-party tech systems provider C-Edge Technologies.
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Users outraged that Logitech might charge monthly for using a mouse
Users are not happy with Logitech’s recent idea to charge a subscription fee for using a computer mouse.
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BBC journalist pleads guilty to WhatsApp image accusations – media
In an update, the former BBC senior news anchor Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to making and receiving indecent images of children via a WhatsApp chat between him and another man.
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Security oversight exposes 40M UK voters’ records
The lack of "basic" security measures allowed hackers to access a database containing the personal records of millions of UK voters, the country’s data privacy watchdog has said.
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Catholic priest sues Grindr after data sale outed him
Jeffrey Burrill, a Catholic priest, has filed a lawsuit against queer dating app Grindr, saying that it released his data and thus cost him his job and reputation.
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HealthEquity reveals breach affected over four million people
HealthEquity, a major custodian that manages millions of health savings accounts across the US, has revealed that an earlier data breach resulted in the exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI) of over four million people
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Taiwanese electronics giant allegedly suffers ransomware attack
LITE-ON, a Taiwanese electronics giant, has allegedly suffered a cyberattack, as a ransomware gang claims to have leaked the company’s data.
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Crooks exploit the CrowdStrike outage that crashed Windows systems
After a massive outage affected Windows users worldwide, CrowStrike warns of a phishing attack using a malicious Crash Reporter to target users in Germany.
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France initiates international “disinfection” to exterminate RAT prior to the Olympics
On the eve of the Olympics, French authorities are cleaning devices affected by a botnet that posed espionage threats.
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CrowdStrike losses could top $1.5 billion, most systems back online
Insurance industry analysts are tallying up the cost of company losses from last week's CrowdStrike outage, with a price tag ranging from less than half a million to over 1 billion dollars, once recovery is mostly complete. This is as CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on Thursday that 97% of Microsoft Windows systems are back online.
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Cyberattacks on the Paris Olympics are inevitable, says PM
ANSSI, France’s national cybersecurity agency met Thursday prompting French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to warn the public that cyberattacks during the Paris Olympic games would be ‘inevitable.’
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Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim
Microsoft-owned GitHub’s design makes repository data forever available, potentially enabling malicious actors to access sensitive information such as API keys and secrets even after users think they’ve deleted it.
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Meta deletes 63K sextortion scam accounts from Instagram, Facebook
Meta have said that it has deleted more than 63,000 sextortion scam accounts from Instagram, as well as another 2500 from Facebook – all originating from Nigeria and mostly targeting men and even some children in the US.
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CrowdStrike’s postmortem: blames validation tool, promises improvements
The faulty software update provided by CrowdStrike Falcon crashed 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide and sent many critical services into disarray. This update slipped through the cracks due to errors in the cybersecurity vendor’s content validation software. In the preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) the company admits it over-relied on its past successes and promises improvements.
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