Incident Response
Ransomware Attack Costs loanDepot Almost $27 Million
The January ransomware attack on loanDepot has so far cost the mortgage lender $26.9 million, including $25 million toward the possible settlement of a related class action lawsuit, company executives said in ...
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Student Devices Wiped — Mobile Guardian Hacked AGAIN
Richi Jennings | | Blackmail, cybersecurity education, Cybersecurity in education, DevOps Education, DevSecOps Education, MDM, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Guardian, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, singapore
Hackers ate my homework: MDM software for schools is breached for second time this year—13,000 devices wiped in Singapore alone ...
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Rubrik Allies With Mandiant to Increase Cyber Resiliency Capability
Rubrik at the Black Hat USA 2024 conference today revealed it is partnering with the Mandiant arm of Google to reduce the amount of time organizations require to recover from a cybersecurity ...
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Hunters International RaaS Group Points SharpRhino at IT Workers
Hunters International, a fast-rising RaaS group, is using a typosquatting domain for the open source Angry IP Scanner tool to deliver a novel RAT malware called SharpRhino in a campaign targeting IT ...
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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...
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Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin
Richi Jennings | | cyber attacks russia, Putin, Roman Seleznev, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, Russian hacker, Russian hackers, Russian hacking, SB Blogwatch, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Klyushin
Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...
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Microsoft: DDoS Attack on Azure Services Exacerbated by Defense Error
A DDoS attack cause outages of such Microsoft services as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Outlook, but an implementation error in the company's defenses made the situation worse, the IT giant said ...
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CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB Blogwatch
Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...
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WTH? Google Auth Bug Lets Hackers Login as You
Richi Jennings | | G Suite, Google Apps, Google Apps for Work, Google Workspace, OAuth, oauth 2.0, oauth abuse, Oauth Application Abuse, SB Blogwatch, securing oauth
G Suite Sours: Domain owners flummoxed as strangers get Google for their domains ...
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CrowdStrike Update Created Widespread Outage
As a recap, a widespread Microsoft Windows outage began on July 19 and expanded throughout the day due to a CrowdStrike content update for Microsoft Windows hosts. Pondurance and its systems were ...