Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

Medusa Group Tied to Attack on SimonMed and Threats to Leak Stolen DataTwo radiology practices are notifying nearly 1.5 million people of separate hacking incidents compromising their sensitive health information. Cybercrime gang Medusa claimed credit for attacking Arizona-based SimonMed Imaging in January and threatened to leak the stolen data of nearly 1.3 million patients on the darkweb.

Medusa Group Tied to Attack on SimonMed and Threats to Leak Stolen DataTwo radiology practices are notifying nearly 1.5 million people of separate hacking incidents compromising their sensitive health information. Cybercrime gang Medusa claimed credit for attacking Arizona-based SimonMed Imaging in January and threatened to leak the stolen data of nearly 1.3 million patients on the darkweb.

The French police have reportedly arrested five operators of the BreachForum cybercrime forum, a website used by cybercriminals to leak and sell stolen data that exposed the sensitive information of millions. [...]

The VanHelsing ransomware-as-a-service operation published the source code for its affiliate panel, data leak blog, and Windows encryptor builder after an old developer tried to sell it on the RAMP cybercrime forum. [...]

Data Leak Preceded Law Enforcement Crackdown on Group That Targets Health SectorA clinic in Hawaii is notifying 124,000 patients that their health data was potentially compromised in a May hack. Lockbit 3.0 claims to have published the stolen records on its data leak site in June - months before global authorities this week disclosed a crackdown on the cybercrime gang.

Dataset Leaked for Free; ShinyHunters Cybercrime Gang First Advertised It in 2021Data breach blast from the past: Data pertaining to 70 million individuals that the ShinyHunters gang claimed were AT&T customers has been leaked via a hacking forum, three years after criminals first offered it for sale. AT&T said the information didn't appear to have been stolen from its systems.

A threat actor has posted data the alleged data stolen from American game publisher Activision in December 2022 on a hacking forum, highlighting the data's value for phishing operations. [...]

It's been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many AshleyMadison users, and to at least two suicides. To date, little is publicly known about the perpetrators or the true motivation for the attack. But a recent review of AshleyMadison mentions across Russian cybercrime forums and far-right underground websites in the months leading up to the hack revealed some previously unreported details that may deserve further scrutiny.