Citibank sued over failure to defend customers against hacks, fraud
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Citibank over its failure to defend customers against hacks and scams and refusing to reimburse victims after allowing…
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Keenan warns 1.5 million people of data breach after summer cyberattack
Keenan & Associates is sending notices of a data breach to 1.5 million customers, warning that hackers accessed their personal information in a recent cyberattack.…
Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days
Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days. Affected customers again report having…
Ransomware payments drop to record low as victims refuse to pay
The number of ransomware victims paying ransom demands has dropped to a record low of 29% in the final quarter of 2023, according to ransomware…
45k Jenkins servers exposed to RCE attacks using public exploits
Researchers found roughly 45,000 Jenkins instances exposed online that are vulnerable to CVE-2023-23897, a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw for which multiple public proof-of-concept…
Energy giant Schneider Electric hit by Cactus ransomware attack
Energy management and automation giant Schneider Electric suffered a Cactus ransomware attack leading to the theft of corporate data, according to people familiar with the…
Tech support scams now use couriers to collect victims’ money
Today, the FBI warned about courier services being used to collect money and valuables from victims of tech support and government impersonation scams. This public…
Microsoft says Outlook apps can’t connect to Outlook.com
Microsoft is investigating an issue that prevents Outlook and other email clients from connecting when using an Outlook.com account. “Since starting around 1/23/24 users have…
DHS employees jailed for stealing data of 200K U.S. govt workers
Three former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees were sentenced to prison for stealing proprietary U.S. government software and databases containing the personal data of…
Kansas City public transportation authority hit by ransomware
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) announced it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Tuesday, January 23. KCATA is a bi-state public transit…
Exploits released for critical Jenkins RCE flaw, patch now
Multiple proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for a critical Jenkins vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files have been made publicly available, with some researchers reporting…
The Week in Ransomware – January 26th 2024
Governments struck back this week against members of ransomware operations, imposing sanctions on one threat actor and sentencing another to prison. On Tuesday, the Australian,…