Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced a six-month extension for companies to comply with certain updated requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s Safeguards Rule, a set of data security provisions covered financial institutions must implement to protect their customers’ personal information. The new deadline is June 9, 2023. The FTC announced updates...
RED BLUFF, Calif., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the County of Tehama, California announced that it has addressed a data security incident that resulted in unauthorized access to files on its systems. On August 19, 2022, the County of Tehama concluded its investigation of a data security incident that resulted in unauthorized access to personal information pertaining to certain County...
LCMH never responded to DataBreaches’ emailed inquiries to them about a significant data security breach claimed by Hive, but after Hive started leaking their data and DataBreaches published a post about the attack and data leak, LCMH gave news outlet KPLC a statement. Their brief statement can be found in its entirety on KPLC....
Brian Krebs reports: Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. After two...
WION reports: The small archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu, was attacked by ransomware on 4 November, Friday and stranded the country for over a week. According to civil servants in the government, they noticed that their official emails started bouncing back from government addresses, this was the first sign when they found...
CISA has issued an alert about the Hive ransomware group. Summary Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators...
Another Texas school district has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyberattack. Tuloso Midway Independent School District in Nueces County, Texas, has slightly under 3,900 students. A notice posted on their website yesterday explained that on March 16, 2022, one employee’s email account was accessed without authorization. The statement does not reveal...
Daniel Kreps reports: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has fired or disciplined dozens of employees and contractors — including Meta security guards — following an internal probe that revealed they were improperly accessing users’ accounts for reasons including bribery. The Wall Street Journal reports that, for years, the employees and contractors wrongly used Facebook’s internal mechanism for helping...
Jonathan Greig reports: Public schools in two Michigan counties are reopening on Thursday after a ransomware attack crippled their ability to function and closed doors to students for three days. All of the public schools in Jackson and Hillsdale counties announced their reopening on Thursday in letters to parents, assuring them that cybersecurity experts, tech...
Have ransomware-type cyberattacks really decreased in 2022?