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Federal Contractor Must Comply With New Reporting Measures Following Data BreachGlobal Tel*Link, a major telecommunications provider for state and federal prison systems, will be required to notify the FTC and consumers of future security incidents after a sweeping data breach left hundreds of thousands of its users vulnerable to identity theft and other privacy concerns.

Atlanta Man Pleads Guilty, Is Ordered to Pay $818,000 Restitution, May Avoid PrisonThe chief operating officer of an Atlanta-based cybersecurity firm has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay restitution of more than $818,000 in a federal criminal case in which he admitted hacking a Georgia medical center in 2018 in an effort to drum up business for his company.

Aviram Azari Bombarded Climate Climate Activists With a Torrent of Phishing EmailsAn Israeli private eye faces nearly seven years in U.S. prison after admitting he had overseen a hacking campaign against climate change activists. A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday sentenced Aviram Azari to 80 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in April 2022.

The feds seem to know all about the hacking group brazenly breaking into corporate networks; so why are enterprise teams left on their own to stop their cybercrimes?

For several years operators at New Delhi-based Appin hacked into, spied on, and stole data from targets around the world for clients that included private investigators, government agencies, law enforcement, and others.

Agencies Release Joint Advisory Urging Organizations to Implement New MitigationsCISA and the FBI released an advisory recommending that critical infrastructure organizations implement a series of recommendations to thwart a unique hacking group known for targeting commercial facilities, as seen in the recent cyberattack targeting MGM Resorts International.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an advisory about the evasive threat actor tracked as Scattered Spider, a loosely knit hacking collective that now collaborates with the ALPHV/BlackCat Russian ransomware operation.. [...]

Also: OneCoin Exec's Guilty Plea; SEC's Crypto Enforcement YearThis week, Poloniex prepared to resume operations after a $100 million hack, a OneCoin executive pleaded guilty, the SEC reported an "impactful" crypto enforcement year, a bug put $2.1 billion at risk, $27 million was stolen, the Data Act vote happened in Europe, and China released an NFT theft law.

A report described the coordinated attack, in which 22 critical infrastructure firms were targeted

A hacking group that leveraged a recently disclosed security flaw in the WinRAR software as a zero-day has now been categorized as an entirely new advanced persistent threat (APT)

Northwell Health Among Perry Johnson & Associates' Healthcare Clients AffectedThe number of healthcare organizations and patients affected by a recent data theft at medical transcription firm Perry Johnson & Associates is expanding: The company now says the breach affected the sensitive information of about 9 million people.

A new software-based fault injection attack, CacheWarp, can let threat actors hack into AMD SEV-protected virtual machines by targeting memory writes to escalate privileges and gain remote code execution. [...]

A Russian hacking group known as AlphaLock is launching a "pentest" marketplace and training platform to empower a new generation of threat actors. Learn more from Flare about the new hacking group. [...]

Agency Underscores Risks From Ransomware, State-Aligned Hacking, China and AIThe risk of critical infrastructure hacking in the United Kingdom likely grew in the last year, says the national cybersecurity agency, citing a slew of high-profile ransomware attacks. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a main driver of growing risk in cyberspace, the agency says.

Michigan Healthcare Provider Faces 7 Federal Lawsuits in Alphv/BlackCat Data TheftMcLaren Health Care is notifying nearly 2.2 million people of a data breach weeks after ransomware group Alphv/BlackCat claimed to have stolen 6 terabytes of patient records in a recent attack. In the meantime, the number of lawsuits filed against McLaren related to the incident continues to climb.

6 Data Breach Have Been Filed Against the Company in the Past WeekA virtual pharmacy and mail-order prescription drug firm is notifying about 2.36 million patients of a hacking incident that compromised their sensitive information. In the past week, attorneys have filed at least six proposed federal class action lawsuits related to the breach.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations