Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

A 5-year study on the Ransomware Economy found that 30,515 exposed databases were hit by ransom attacks, causing massive damage despite victims never paying. Database extortion doesn’t look like the ransomware stories that usually grab headlines. There’s no slick branding, no leak-site countdown, no gang posting memes on Telegram. In most cases, there’s just a […]

Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand

Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand CISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks.…

Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech. Digital engineering outfit GlobalLogic says personal data from more than 10,000 current and former employees was exposed in the wave of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks attributed to the Clop ransomware gang. The Hitachi-owned biz joins a growing roster of high-profile victims that also now includes The Washington Post and Allianz UK.…

Exposed data from LockBit's affiliate panel includes Bitcoin addresses, private chats with victim organizations, and user information such as credentials.

The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced and replaced with a message linking to a MySQL database dump. [...]

Plus: More stalkerware exposure; a $16M TracFone fine; Ransomware victims don't use MFA, and more Infosec in brief Protecting computers' BIOS and the boot process is essential for modern security – but knowing it's important isn't the same as actually taking steps to do it.…

77 Million Individuals' Information Exposed, as More Victims Continue to Be CountedTrackers of the tally of individuals affected by the Clop ransomware group's mass hack attack on MOVEit servers added another 4.5 million patients' data to the ever-ascending total. The incident currently affects more than 2,600 organizations and 77 million individuals.

Victim offered two years of credit monitoring for ransomware exposure A cancer patient whose nude treatment photos and medical records were posted online after they were stolen in a ransomware attack, has sued the healthcare provider for allowing a "preventable" and "seriously damaging" incident.…

A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas