Here’s your Cyber Security Incidents Update for wk32 2024
(a once-a-week on Monday glimpse into just a fraction of the Cyber Security events of the previous week to inform regarding the depth and breadth of the incidents world-wide)
-Organisation
⦿ About 40 French museums, including the Grand Palais, were targeted by a ransomware attack during the Olympic Games
-Data compromised
⦿ The ransomware attack targeted systems used to “centralise financial data” and encrypted data while the attackers demanded a ransom and threatened to leak data if the victim had not paid within 48 hours
-Organisation
⦿ Physical security and alarm company ADT
-Data compromised
⦿ “Limited customer information” such as email addresses, phone numbers, and postal addresses, (Maybe limited but a treasure trove for phishing)
-Organisation
⦿ Donald Trump’s presidential campaign
-Data compromised
⦿ "Sensitive internal documents"
-Initial access
⦿ A phishing email via the compromised account of a former adviser
-Possible Prevention
⦿ (Build a wall?) 🤣
One piece of good news 👍:
Two suspected admins of the WWH-Club stolen credit card marketplace were arrested by US Law Enforcement after they went on a cash spending spree in Florida. The suspects, Russian and Kazakhstan natives spent large amounts of cash without providing any evidence of employment. Their affluent lifestyle included making large purchases of luxury items using cash, opening a Bank of America account with an initial cash deposit of $50,000, renting a luxury house, visiting various tourist attractions and purchasing (in cash) a 2023 Chevrolet Corvette for $110,000
One final note:
$27 million. That's the cost to date for US Mortgage Lender LoanDepot to recover from a recent ransomware attack. (That's a lot of money and one could deploy some REALLY good security controls for that amount. Oh wait, horse stable bolted etc). The data breach included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and financial account numbers of up to 16 million individuals