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VOICE ARCHIVE

Jeremy Kirk

@jeremy_kirk
15 posts
2024-06-05
Not a typo. Calculated at the max fine. Obviously, unrealistic without quashing a business, which isn't a good outcome for anyone. https://www.abc.net.au/... [image]
2024-06-05 View on X
ABC

Australia's privacy regulator sues Medibank over an October 2022 data breach, accusing the health insurer of failing to protect the data of 9.7M customers

Emilia Terzon / ABC :

2024-05-31
This is a really important facet of this huge cybercriminal infrastructure takedown. @troyhunt writes 16.5M email addresses and 13.5M unique passwords that were stolen by malware apps such as IceID, Smokeloader and Bumblebee have now been loaded into @haveibeenpwned. 👇👇👇
2024-05-31 View on X
Associated Press

Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains

International law enforcement and partners have joined forces. Europol : Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Poli...

Huge cybercrime news here. Authorities say they've disrupted six types of botnets/loaders/cybercrime infrastructure: IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ...
2024-05-31 View on X
Associated Press

Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains

International law enforcement and partners have joined forces. Europol : Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Poli...

2024-05-30
Huge cybercrime news here. Authorities say they've disrupted six types of botnets/loaders/cybercrime infrastructure: IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ...
2024-05-30 View on X
Associated Press

Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains

Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …

2024-05-02
Ukrainian national and REvil affiliate Yaroslav Vasinskyi was sentenced to 13 years for the Kaseya supply-chain ransomware attack, which used 0-day flaws. The 2021 attack resulted in more than 1,500 organisations becoming infected with ransomware. #infosec https://www.justice.gov/...
2024-05-02 View on X
CNN

The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks

A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution …

2023-02-10
US alleges Trickbot actors “are associated with Russian Intelligence Services.” Conti leaks and other tidbits and data over the years pointed to potential ties between the state and cybercriminals. https://home.treasury.gov/... #infosec
2023-02-10 View on X
The Record

The US and the UK sanction seven people based in Russia, with likely FSB ties, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan

on par with terrorism and military crisis between states. Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk : Russian Cybercrime Gang Trickbot Sanctioned by US, UK Maggie Miller / Politico : U.S., U.K. sa...

2023-02-09
The ESXiArgs VMware attack is evolving. Victims are reporting SLP was disabled but were infected. The encryption routine has been improved to encrypt more of the data in large files. Also, the bitcoin address has been removed from the ransom note. By @BleepinComputer. #infosec https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-09 View on X
The Record

The CISA publishes a recovery script for the ESXiArgs ransomware that encrypted files at 3,800+ organizations across the US, France, Italy, and other countries

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a process for recovering files for organizations affected …

2023-02-07
VMware says the “ESXiArgs” ransomware blitz affected significantly out-of-date ESXi products that were targeted with exploits for vulnerabilities patched long ago. Easy lesson there (maybe don't expose ESXi to the internet, either): https://blogs.vmware.com/... #infosec
2023-02-07 View on X
CSO

The US, France, Italy, and others warn about a ransomware attack on VMware ESXi servers, despite a February 2021 patch; Censys: 3,200+ servers have been hacked

Description OpenSLP as used in ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1c-17325551 … Edward Hawkins / VMware Security Blog : VMware Security Response Center (vSRC) Response to ‘ESXiArgs’ Ransomwar...

2022-10-04
The Vice Society ransomware gang released files from @LASchools. @LeonardFiles writes the data includes confidential psychological assessments of students, contract and legal documents, biz records and more. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/ ...
2022-10-04 View on X
BleepingComputer

The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :

2022-09-07
This ransomware incident against the Los Angeles Unified School District is pulling big resources: the White House brought in Department of Education, FBI, CISA for incident response. Maybe offensive action possible as well on this one? https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-07 View on X
TechCrunch

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the US with 600,000+ students, says a ransomware attack over the weekend disrupted its operations

their speed, clarity & focus on partnership is commendable. Great example of how to keep stakeholders informed, including potential impacts & what to expect next: https://achieve.l...

2021-08-18
T-Mobile says it is resetting security PINs. Also, “there was some additional information from inactive prepaid accounts accessed through prepaid billing files.”
2021-08-18 View on X
Bloomberg

T-Mobile says an investigation found 7.8M current users and 40M past and prospective users who applied for credit had information stolen in a cyberattack

- About 7.8 million current customers had information stolen  — Records from former and prospective users also accessed Source: T-Mobile .

Turns out, (somewhat) true! T-Mobile says breach affects 7.8 million postpaid customer accounts and 40 million records of customers/people who applied for credit. Also, 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account PINs exposed. https://www.t-mobile.com/...
2021-08-18 View on X
Bloomberg

T-Mobile says an investigation found 7.8M current users and 40M past and prospective users who applied for credit had information stolen in a cyberattack

- About 7.8 million current customers had information stolen  — Records from former and prospective users also accessed Source: T-Mobile .

2021-06-10
Ugh. Recovery for JBS didn't seem to be a huge issue due to a good backup strategy. But the double extortion strategy worked. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

JBS says it paid an $11M ransom in bitcoin to resolve an attack last week; the payment was made after most plants were operational to avoid further disruption

Meat supplier's U.S. chief says firm paid cybercriminals in bitcoin to avoid more disruptions  —  JBS USA Holdings Inc. paid …

2021-04-27
@cedowens deserves a round of applause for finding this zero-day. He's the “anonymous researcher” in Apple's advisory, but that is an oversight that Apple is in the process of rectifying. https://support.apple.com/...
2021-04-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Researcher shows that for months macOS had a flaw that would let apps run despite not being notarized by Apple's service; bug is patched in macOS Big Sur 11.3

Old malware, new tricks.  —  Apple has spent years reinforcing macOS with new security features to make it tougher for malware to break in.

2020-04-29
This isn't good considering misinformation/COVID-19/upcoming election: Facebook has eliminated its chief information security officer position. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Zuckerberg more actively in charge of Facebook after five departures from board of directors since 2019, as he attempts to consolidate decision-making

The 35-year-old tycoon has recast the company's board of directors and sought a high-profile role for the social-media giant in the Covid-19 pandemic