Infosecurity News
Nurse and Marine Charged Over Fake Vaccination Card Scheme
Marine Corps reservist and nurse allegedly sold hundreds of forged coronavirus inoculation cards
Maryland Couple Conspired to Sell Nuclear Secrets
Nuclear engineer and wife admit plot to steal restricted data and sell it to a foreign power
Banking World Rocked After Leak Exposes 18,000 Credit Suisse Accounts
Bank hits back at reports alleging serious due diligence failings
Russia "Pre-positioning" Cyber-Attacks for Potential Invasion
US and UK blame Kremlin for last week’s DDoS attacks
Digital Ad Fraud Set to Hit $68bn in 2022
Juniper Research warns of continued surge in losses this year
Probation for Medicare Fraudster
Floridian who sold Medicare patients’ personal and medical data evades prison
US Goes After Crypto Criminals
DOJ appoints national crypto enforcement team director and announces new FBI virtual asset exploitation unit
Carpet Bombing Attacks on the Rise
2021 saw surge in DDoS attacks targeting multiple IP addresses of an organization in a short timeframe
UK Government Consults on Plans to Restrict Huawei’s Involvement in Telecoms Networks
The consultation will focus on legal mechanisms to restrict the use of Huawei in the UK's infrastructure due to national security concerns
Trickbot Targets 140,000 Victims in 14 Months
Check Point warns of ongoing campaign
High Severity WordPress Plugin Bug Hits Three Million
Vulnerability could enable threat actors to access backups
FlexBooker Data Leak Impacts Millions of End Customers
Researchers find misconfigured AWS S3 bucket
Data Privacy Lawsuit Could Cost Meta $90m
Facebook parent agrees to pay $90M to settle decade-old data privacy lawsuit
Fertility Clinic Hit with Ransomware
Ransomware attack on NYC fertility clinic leads to breach of patients’ personal data
Phishing Top Threat to US Healthcare
Phishing and ransomware attacks most significant security incidents for US healthcare organizations
UK Cyber Sector Generates Record Investment and Revenue
More than £1bn was raised in external investment across 84 deals in the most recent financial year
Over 620 Million Ransomware Attacks Detected in 2021
Attacks on government targets soar almost 1900%
Researchers Block "Largest Ever" Bot Attack
Web scraping raid generated 400 million requests
Red Cross Attackers Exploited Zoho Bug Used by China
Breach bears many of the hallmarks of a state-sponsored attack
Grand Prix CFO Sentenced for Identity Theft
Prison for former CFO of Boston Grand Prix convicted of money laundering, wire fraud and identity theft
