08-18-2023, 03:34 PM
After the Royal ransomware group claimed Morris Hospital its victim in May, the healthcare center has finished its investigation and notified around 250,000 individuals of the breach. APT29, aka Nobelium, has launched a fresh spear-phishing campaign targeting NATO-associated entities. What is the most dominant internet crime? Phishing. And, it’s growing. Read the statistics and more from the past 24 hours.
01、Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers, Illinois, informed 248,943 individuals of a cybersecurity incident they discovered on April 4. The compromised information includes SSNs, medical record numbers, diagnostic codes, and other personal data of former and current patients and employees.
02、Researchers discovered an ongoing spear-phishing campaign conducted by the Russian cyberespionage group APT29, targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs in NATO-aligned countries. The campaign utilized two PDF files, with one deploying the Duke malware.
03、Patients at Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital, New Jersey, have been notified of a potential data breach after a backup hard drive went missing from a DEXA scan machine. The backup drive contained sensitive information such as medical record numbers, SSNs, and more.
04、ESET researchers uncovered a new social engineering campaign targeting Zimbra Collaboration email server users, which aims to collect login credentials through phishing emails. It mainly targets SMBs and government entities in Poland, Ecuador, Mexico, Italy, and Russia.
05、The China-linked APT group Bronze Starlight is targeting the Southeast Asian gambling sector, using DLL hijacking and ransomware as distraction tactics - warned SentinelOne. It is abusing bugs in Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Edge, and McAfee VirusScan to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons.
06、Cleveland City Schools officials in Tennessee are reportedly addressing a ransomware incident that has impacted a minor fraction, less than 5%, of their system devices. Fortunately, no student devices have been compromised.
07、Zimperium zLabs found 3,300 public app samples using an unsupported compression method to hinder analysis. Out of these, 71 were malicious and distributed outside the Play Store. The majority of these samples are so corrupted that the Android OS cannot load them.
08、A new report by Cloudflare noted a 35.6% increase in the use of malicious links as the top phishing attack trend between May 2022 and May 2023. It also found that BEC scams accounted for losses of around $50 billion over the period.
09、According to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (BKA), the country recorded 136,865 cases of cybercrime in 2022, with an estimated loss of €203 billion ($220 billion). It also stated that while domestic cybercrime decreased, crimes committed by foreign actors increased by 8%.
10、The CISA issued its RMM Cyber Defense Plan to address the increasing risks associated with exploiting Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software, which is often targeted by cyber threat actors in ransomware attacks.
01、Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers, Illinois, informed 248,943 individuals of a cybersecurity incident they discovered on April 4. The compromised information includes SSNs, medical record numbers, diagnostic codes, and other personal data of former and current patients and employees.
02、Researchers discovered an ongoing spear-phishing campaign conducted by the Russian cyberespionage group APT29, targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs in NATO-aligned countries. The campaign utilized two PDF files, with one deploying the Duke malware.
03、Patients at Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital, New Jersey, have been notified of a potential data breach after a backup hard drive went missing from a DEXA scan machine. The backup drive contained sensitive information such as medical record numbers, SSNs, and more.
04、ESET researchers uncovered a new social engineering campaign targeting Zimbra Collaboration email server users, which aims to collect login credentials through phishing emails. It mainly targets SMBs and government entities in Poland, Ecuador, Mexico, Italy, and Russia.
05、The China-linked APT group Bronze Starlight is targeting the Southeast Asian gambling sector, using DLL hijacking and ransomware as distraction tactics - warned SentinelOne. It is abusing bugs in Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Edge, and McAfee VirusScan to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons.
06、Cleveland City Schools officials in Tennessee are reportedly addressing a ransomware incident that has impacted a minor fraction, less than 5%, of their system devices. Fortunately, no student devices have been compromised.
07、Zimperium zLabs found 3,300 public app samples using an unsupported compression method to hinder analysis. Out of these, 71 were malicious and distributed outside the Play Store. The majority of these samples are so corrupted that the Android OS cannot load them.
08、A new report by Cloudflare noted a 35.6% increase in the use of malicious links as the top phishing attack trend between May 2022 and May 2023. It also found that BEC scams accounted for losses of around $50 billion over the period.
09、According to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (BKA), the country recorded 136,865 cases of cybercrime in 2022, with an estimated loss of €203 billion ($220 billion). It also stated that while domestic cybercrime decreased, crimes committed by foreign actors increased by 8%.
10、The CISA issued its RMM Cyber Defense Plan to address the increasing risks associated with exploiting Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software, which is often targeted by cyber threat actors in ransomware attacks.