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#1 BlackSuit Cybercrime Gang Blamed in CDK Hack That Roiled Car Dealers
Jun 25 2024 // A hacking group called BlackSuit is behind the cyberattack on CDK Global that’s paralyzed car sales across the US, according to Allan Liska, a threat analyst at the security firm Recorded Future Inc. The cybercrime...
#2 Hackers Demand as Much as $5 Million From Snowflake Clients
Jun 19 2024 // Cybercriminals are demanding payments of between $300,000 and $5 million apiece from as many as 10 companies breached in a campaign that targeted Snowflake Inc. customers, according to a security firm helping with the...
#3 Car Dealerships Across US Halt Services After Cyberattack
Jun 20 2024 // Thousands of car dealerships were ground to a halt during a normally busy holiday Wednesday by a cyber incident at CDK Global, a major software provider for dealers across the US. The company “shut all systems down...
#4 Massachusetts Town Loses $446,000 in Cyber Attack
Jun 12 2024 // The Massachusetts town of Arlington reports it has lost $445,945 in funds intended for a contractor working on a high school building project that were instead diverted to hackers orchestrating a wire fraud scam. Town...
#5 Hundreds of Thousands of Internet Routers Destroyed in Newly Discovered 2023 Hack
Jun 3 2024 // An unidentified hacking group launched a massive cyberattack on a telecommunications company in the U.S. heartland late last year that disabled hundreds of thousands of internet routers, according to research published...
#6 Cyber Insurance Market ‘Stable’ With Potential for Growth, Says AM Best
Jun 24 2024 // According to industry rating agency AM Best, there are enough positive factors to give the cyber insurance market a ‘stable’ outlook despite a stall in premium growth. Analysts at AM Best issued a segment...
#7 Hackers Auction Off Stolen LendingTree Consumers’ Data: Source
Jun 21 2024 // Hackers are selling data about consumers of the LendingTree Inc. subsidiary QuoteWizard after the company detected unauthorized access on a cloud database hosted by Snowflake Inc., according to a person familiar with the...
#8 Hack That Crippled UK Hospitals Highlights Growing Threat to NHS
Jun 6 2024 // In June of last year, a Russian cybercrime gang called BlackCat hacked the Barts Health NHS Trust, a part of the UK’s National Health Service that operates several hospitals in London, and published some of it online...
#9 US Cyber Chief Sees ‘Very Aggressive’ Chinese Hacking Strategy
Jun 4 2024 // A top US spy chief said China is increasingly using its companies to find vulnerabilities in their own computer networks and then tapping that knowledge to target foreign nations and industries. “We’re really...
#10 CDK Begins Restoring Systems After Cyber Hack Hits Thousands of Retailers
Jun 24 2024 // Retail technology and software provider CDK Global has begun work to restore systems used by over 15,000 retail locations across North America, the company said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it expects the process...
#11 Guidance and Insurance Implications for the CDK Global Cyberattack
Jun 28 2024 // On June 18 and 19, 2024, CDK Global (CDK), a leading provider of cloud-based software to auto dealerships in North America, fell victim to a two-tiered cyberattack. 15,000 dealerships are potentially impacted, with...
#12 Companies Need to Be Aware of Cyber Risks Related to Proliferation of IoT
Jun 6 2024 // The Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to the collection of internet-enabled devices such as wearables, industrial sensors and controls, and closed-circuit cameras, has revolutionized processes from pharmaceuticals...
#13 Marsh: Cyber Extortion Reached Record High in US and Canada in 2023
Jun 14 2024 // Multiple companies in the U.S. and Canada experienced a record number of cyber extortion events in 2023 and unprecedented demands, a new report from Marsh shows. The report, Ransomware: A persistent challenge in cyber...
#14 Hackers Grow More Sinister and Brazen in Hunt for Bigger Ransoms
Jun 26 2024 // A hack on a London hospital has left hundreds of millions of health records exposed and forced doctors to reschedule life-altering cancer treatments. In North America, a gang tried auctioning off data about LendingTree...
#15 Microsoft Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
Jul 1 2024 // Microsoft Corp. has told more than a dozen state agencies and public universities in Texas that Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed emails between them and the software giant. The attackers were able to gain access to...
#16 Hackers Targeted Celebrities on TikTok Using Private Messages
Jun 5 2024 // Hackers targeted well known brands and celebrities on TikTok, sending a malicious link through private messages to hijack prominent accounts. The ByteDance Ltd.-owned social media service said it’s taking steps to...
#17 Snowflake to Close Probe Into Cyberattack Targeting Clients
Jun 14 2024 // Snowflake Inc. plans to close its own investigation this week into a hacking campaign that ensnared as many as 165 of its customers. The cloud data and analytics company hasn’t detected any unauthorized access into...
#18 UK Hospital Hackers Say They’ve Demanded $50 Million in Ransom
Jun 19 2024 // A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers is demanding $50 million from a UK lab-services provider to end a ransomware attack that has paralyzed services at London hospitals for weeks, according to a representative for the...
#19 HHS Says UnitedHealth Can Notify Patients of Data Breach
Jun 12 2024 // U.S. healthcare providers can ask UnitedHealth Group to notify people whose data was exposed during a hack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit in February, according to an update on the health department’s...
#20 Live Nation Probing Ticketmaster Hack Amid User Data Leak Concerns
Jun 3 2024 // Live Nation Entertainment said on Friday it was investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster unit that it discovered on May 20, the latest in a string of high-profile corporate hacks in the past year. In a filing with...
