Author: Cybersecure California
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Vans owner VF Corp. shares tumble as it says cyberattack could hamper holiday fulfillment
Shares of VF Corp. tumbled after the company said it suffered a cybersecurity breach. The attack is expected to have a material effect on its business. It’s a major hit as the company, which owns The North Face and Vans, gears up for the holiday rush. A Vans store is seen in Hong Kong. Budrul…
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Ransomware Gangs Are Collaborating To Attack Financial Services – Cyber Security News
The Cyber-Extortion Trinity—the BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario ransomware gangs—was observed by researchers working together to launch a joint extortion campaign against publicly traded financial services companies. Although these joint ransomware attacks are uncommon, they may grow more often due to Initial Access Brokers (IABs) working with various Dark Web groups. Law enforcement actions that establish networks…
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MongoDB investigates a cyberattack, customer data exposed – Security Affairs
MongoDB investigates a cyberattack, customer data exposed Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2023 MongoDB on Saturday announced it is investigating a cyberattack that exposed customer account metadata and contact information. MongoDB on Saturday disclosed it is investigating a cyber attack against certain corporate systems. MongoDB is a US company that developed the popular open-source NoSQL database…
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Ubiquiti blunder let some folks view others’ security cameras, accounts – The Register
Ubiquiti says it fixed a bug that allowed some of its customers to glimpse strangers’ security camera footage and access accounts and devices that didn’t belong to them. The surveillance and networking gear maker blamed a cloud system misconfiguration for the privacy breach, and said as of late Thursday “the problem is solved and all…
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Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutch cancer center
Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutch Cancer Center Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2023 The Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Fred Hutch). Another healthcare organization suffered a ransomware attack, the Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center…
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Long Beach Public Library’s Digital Services Fully Restored After Cybersecurity Incident
After falling victim to a cybersecurity breach, the Long Beach Public Library has successfully restored all of its digital resources. The facilities, including public computer labs, printing services, and public WiFi, were knocked off the grid on November 15th due to a network security incident that targeted city systems. According to a release from the…
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Wi-Fi, e-books and other library services are back after November cyberattack, Long Beach says
Weeks after a cyberattack disrupted many of Long Beach’s systems, digital services at all of the city’s libraries are back up and running, according to an announcement today.Services like the city’s digital lending library, public computer labs, printing services and public Wi-Fi were among the systems taken offline Nov. 15, the day after the city…
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CISA Secure by Design Alert Urges Manufacturers to Eliminate Default Passwords
Today, CISA published guidance on How Manufacturers Can Protect Customers by Eliminating Default Passwords as a part of our new Secure by Design (SbD) Alert series. This SbD Alert urges technology manufacturers to proactively eliminate the risk of default password exploitation by implementing principles one and three of the joint guidance, Shifting the Balance of…
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Retail cyber threats rise as holiday season nears | SC Media
Louisiana-based medical association Lafourche Medical Group and the Department of Health and Human Services have reached a $480,000 settlement for a cyberattack in 2021 that resulted in the compromise of protected health information from 34,862 individuals, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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UT Health resumes certain surgeries as cyber attack recovery continues – KLTV
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – UT Health East Texas announced it has resumed some surgeries as the hospital continues to recover in the wake of November’s cyber attack. On Thanksgiving Day, Ardent, which operates 30 hospitals nationwide including UT Health, was hit by a ransomware attack. The attack affected multiple systems at UT Health, including electronic…
