Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Marriott has informed 5.2 million guests that their personal details were inappropriately accessed in a possible data breach. Contacts details, loyalty account information, company, gender, birthday, partnerships and affiliations and room preferences were among guests’ details accessed between mid-January and February 2020. Read more on ITPro.
For the past few years, this site has covered litigation against Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia related to their hack by thedarkoverlord in 2016. The lawsuit against the clinic, filed by a patient, made it all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court on the issue of whether under Georgia state law, the plaintiff...
The summary from Private Industry Notification #20200330 by the FBI, issued March 30: Since at least 2016, the FBI has observed an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor conduct a global network exploitation campaign using the Kwampirs Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and is providing additional, non-technical information in an effort to highlight key objectives of...
UpGuard reports: UpGuard can now disclose that a code repository including exposed access credentials for Campaign Sidekick, a current voter contact, survey, and canvassing app used by Republican campaigns, has been secured. The code repository was within a “.git” directory which was configured for public access and hosted on Campaign Sidekick’s primary website. The directory...
REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – An analysis of a ransomware affiliate operation