What is the point of INC Ransom's attack on Alder Hey? They are not likely to be paid, and the attack on a children's hospital only increases the chances that they will one day find their collars felt by law enforcement.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Author: Graham Cluley
A British hospital is grappling with a major cyberattack that has crippled its IT systems and disrupted patient care.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
What makes Mimic particularly unusual is that it exploits the API of a legitimate Windows file search tool ("Everything" by Voidtools) to quickly locate files for encryption.
Find out more about the threat in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
What is Mimic? Mimic is family of ransomware, first found in-the-wild in 2022. In common with many other ransomware attacks, Mimic encrypts a victim's files, and demands a ransom payment in cryptocurrency for the release of a decryption key. Does Mimic also steal data? Yes, some variants of Mimic can also exfiltrate data from a user's computers before it is encrypted - the stolen data is typically used as an additional bargaining chip by the extortionists, who may threaten to release it online or sell it to other criminals. Where did Mimic come from? Mimic reuses code from the Conti ransomware...
A Kansas City man is accused of hacking into local businesses, not to steal money, but to... get a cheaper gym membership? A DNA-testing firm has vanished, leaving customers in the dark about what's happened to their sensitive genetic data. And Australia mulls a social media ban for youngsters.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Anna Brading.
In episode 26 of The AI Fix, an AI does surgery on pork chops, holographic Jesus wants your consent to use cookies, Mark opens the pod bay doors, our hosts discover OpenAI's couch potato health coach, and Graham finds a robot made of drain pipes.
Graham pits Mark against an AI in a morality quiz that asks “would you kill sentient robots?”, and “are lobsters more delicious than cats?”, while a surprisingly useful answer from ChatGPT leads Mark on a quest for world peace.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
A security researcher has blamed misconfigured implementations of Microsoft Power Pages for a slew of data breaches from web portals - including the leak of 1.1 million NHS employee records.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Flipaclip, an animation creation app that is particularly popular with youngsters, has exposed the details of over 890,000 users.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A hacker calling themselves "nears" claims to have compromised the systems of multiple healthcare facilities across France, claiming to have gained access to the records of over 1.5 million people.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
When we think about our data being leaked onto the internet, we often picture it as our financial records, our passwords, our names and addresses... what is less often considered is the exposure of our private medical information. A French hospital has found itself in the unenviable position of learning that hackers have gained access to the medical records of over 750,000 patients following a cyber attack. A hacker calling themselves "nears" claims to have compromised the systems of multiple healthcare facilities across the country, claiming to have gained access to the records of over 1.5...