Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

What Do You Mean, Hospital-Targeting Sociopath Ransomware Wielders Continue to Lie?A ransomware group reusing the Babuk ransomware brand claims to have stolen data from the likes of Amazon, Delta and US Bank. Just one problem: Security experts found a startling overlap between its claimed victims and previous attacks scored by the likes of Clop, LockBit and RansomHub.

Assets boss also reckons she has more engineers than Amazon The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion – yes, with a B – cyberattack attempts per day, one of its leaders claimed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. …

An attack involves a multi-stage infection chain with custom malware hosted on Amazon EC2 that ultimately steals critical system and browser data; so far, targets have been located in Latin America.

Spoiler: They used hard-coded AWS credentials Massive amounts of private data – including more than 300,000 biometric digital fingerprints used by five mobile banking apps – have been put at risk of theft due to hard-coded Amazon Web Services credentials, according to security researchers.…