Rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corp. notified customers about a data breach that exposed some individuals' personal and sensitive information. Ransomware-as-a-service group LockBit posted the data on its leak site after the company refused to pay a $30 million ransom.
Airbus has once again expressed interest in Atos' $4.8 billion cybersecurity, big data and digital business - this time as a minority stakeholder, Les Echos reports. The Dutch aircraft manufacturer has started exploratory talks to take a noncontrolling interest in Atos' Evidian business.
Arizona has long been a leader in leveraging IT and providing digital services, but across the state and country alike, new challenges are emerging in the wake of the pandemic, and with them come new threats and risk factors, including remote work security, says Ryan Murray, deputy state CISO.
Britain's The Guardian newspaper has asked staff to continue working from home until Jan. 23 as the company continues to resolve issues with its network, which was compromised by ransomware hackers in December. The attack affected on-premises infrastructure but left cloud-based systems unscathed.
The U.S. attorney in New York has established a task force to trace and recover funds missing from FTX and manage probes related to the firm's collapse. The team comprises prosecutors with expertise in securities and commodities fraud, money laundering and asset forfeiture and cybersecurity.
Rackspace says the ransomware-wielding attackers who disrupted its hosted Microsoft Exchange Server environment last month wielded a zero-day exploit, described by CrowdStrike as being "a previously undisclosed exploit method for Exchange," to gain remote, direct access to servers it hosted.
The BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service group created a spoofed website closely mimicking the website of a victim in order to spread stolen data online. The victim is a small U.S. accounting firm whose stolen files apparently include tax returns and passport scans.
U.S. banking regulators warned banks to be wary of cryptocurrencies, writing in a joint statement that digital assets on decentralized networks are "highly likely to be inconsistent with safe and sound banking requirements." The missive comes after a volatile year for cryptocurrency.
A Utah-based senior healthcare firm paid a $200,000 settlement to two state attorneys general after it delayed reporting a 2019 data breach by 10 months. The breach affected 14,500 individuals and included Social Security numbers and medical treatment information.
Former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried entered a "not guilty" plea in Manhattan federal district court Tuesday. He faces up to 115 years in prison if found guilty on all counts. Bankman-Fried has been out on $250 million bail in home detention with his parents in California.
A Toronto pediatric hospital says it has restored nearly two-thirds of the systems affected by a mid-December ransomware attack but will evaluate whether to use a decryptor supplied by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group. LockBit says an affiliate violated a policy against attacking hospitals.
Poland is warning that Russian hackers have intensified activities in national cyberspace with the aim of "destabilization, intimidation and sowing chaos." Poland is a staging ground for military aid to Kyiv and a destination for more than 1.4 million refugees who fled Moscow's war of conquest.
Malaysian Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil has ordered an inquiry into an alleged massive data breach that reportedly involves data of Maybank, Astro and the Election Commission. The alleged breach reportedly affects 13 million citizens.
Researchers uncovered thousands of Citrix servers that are vulnerable to two critical flaws, one of which is being actively exploited by nation-state hackers. Netgear also warned its customers about a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting some of its devices.
False positives continue to be a challenge for SOC analysts. Nat Smith, senior director analyst at Gartner, the global research and advisory company, is calling for enterprises to embrace a "paradigm shift" in the security operations center.
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