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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2023
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=> ↺ Singtel Optus hit with class action over 2022 data breach
The law firm raised the possibility of filing such an action in September 2022, soon after Optus had revealed the massive breach.
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At the time, Optus advised customers that driver licence details, proof of age/proof of identity documents, Australian and international passport details, Medicare card numbers and invalid/incomplete ID document numbers had all been exposed.
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=> ↺ Rochester Public Schools Reintroduce Technology Following Cyber Attack
Rochester Public Schools (RPS) experienced a cyber attack that had significant consequences on their technology systems, which resulted in them being taken offline. However, in the wake of the attack, the staff, teachers, and students of John Marshall High School have managed to find benefits in learning without the use of screens in the classroom.
Initially, when the cyber attack forced the school to implement a no-screen policy, there was some skepticism about the effectiveness of the learning process. Teachers were unsure if their students would be able to keep up without relying on technology. In contrast, students were concerned about not being able to access their assignments online.
=> ↺ Daggerfly Cyberattack Campaign Hits African Telecom Services Providers
Telecommunication services providers in Africa are the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-linked threat actor at least since November 2022.
The intrusions have been pinned on a hacking crew tracked by Symantec as Daggerfly, and which is also tracked by the broader cybersecurity community as Bronze Highland and Evasive Panda.
=> ↺ Ex-Conti members and FIN7 devs team up to push new Domino malware
Domino is a relatively new malware family consisting of two components, a backdoor named 'Domino Backdoor,' which in turn drops a 'Domino Loader' that injects an info-stealing malware DLL into the memory of another process.
=> ↺ Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant, says customer data not compromised.
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.
=> ↺ PE: Group Euromotors attack claimed by LockBit
The Peruvian company Euromotors is dedicated to the sale of new and used automobiles, maintenance services, and the sale of original spare parts. Euromotors is made up of a group of 12 companies: Euromotors, Euroshop, Altos Andes, Euro Camiones, San Bartolomé, Eurorenting, Euroinmuebles, One, Eurolift, Revo Motors, Euroconnect, and International Camiones del Perú.
=> ↺ Russian hackers exfiltrated data from from Capita over a week before outage
Capita have finally admitted a data breach, but still do not think they need to disclose key details of the incident to customers, regulators, impacted parties and investors. So in this piece we shall dig into the details using open source intelligence, and prove Capita was penetrated by Black Basta ransomware group using Qakbot phishing to deliver hands on keyboard access for weeks — and question if the playbooks organisations are using to handle ransomware groups are fit for purpose in 2023.
=> ↺ State’s second-largest health insurer suffers cybersecurity attack - The Boston Globe
Point32Health, the parent company for Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, said in a memo on its website that it identified a ransomware incident on Monday, affecting the systems it uses to service members, accounts, brokers and providers. A spokesman for the insurer said the outages were mainly affecting members covered under Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s commercial plans and New Hampshire Medicare plans, though it was not impacting those on the Tufts Health Plan.
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