Hackers

Volt Typhoon Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerability in Versa Director Servers Used by MSPs, ISPs

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Volt Typhoon Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerability in Versa Director Servers Used by MSPs, ISPs

Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, has been caught exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director servers, used by managed service providers and internet service providers. CVE-2024-39717 was added to CISA’s “Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog” on Aug. 23 after Lumen Technologies discovered its active exploitation. Data from Censys shows that there are 163 devices … Read more

UnitedHealth says hackers potentially stole a third of Americans’ data – ET HealthWorld

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UnitedHealth says hackers potentially stole a third of Americans’ data – ET HealthWorld

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Zeba Siddiqui Washington: Hackers who breached UnitedHealth’s tech unit in February potentially stole a third of Americans’ data, the largest U.S. health insurer‘s CEO told a Congressional committee on Wednesday. Two Congressional panels grilled CEO Andrew Witty about the cyberattack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit, which processes around 50 per … Read more

UnitedHealth says hackers possibly stole large number of Americans’ data – ET HealthWorld

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UnitedHealth says hackers possibly stole large number of Americans’ data – ET HealthWorld

London: UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a “substantial proportion” of Americans from its systems in February, as the largest U.S. health insurer scrambles to contain the damage. The intrusion at its Change Healthcare unit, which processes about 50 per cent of U.S. medical claims, was one … Read more

AIIMS continues silence on media reports of ₹200-crore demand by hackers

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AIIMS continues silence on media reports of ₹200-crore demand by hackers

Patients are seen waiting outside the AIIMS Pediatric Emergency ward, even as servers remained down for over six days. Hackers have allegedly demands a ransom of ₹200 crore in crypto currency from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, in Delhi on November 29, 2022. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The services at the All … Read more

Australia’s Medibank says hackers claim to have customer data – ET HealthWorld

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Australia’s Medibank says hackers claim to have customer data – ET HealthWorld

Australia: Medibank Private Ltd said on Wednesday an unnamed hacker group had contacted it negotiate about customer data it claimed to have retrieved from the health insurer’s IT systems. The news comes six days after Medibank reported an attempted ransomware attack on its network, but said there was no evidence that customer data had been … Read more

US disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals – ET HealthWorld

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US disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals – ET HealthWorld

The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted US hospitals with ransomware, ultimately recovering half a million dollars in ransom payments and cryptocurrency, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said on Tuesday. Monaco revealed new details of the attacks during … Read more

Cybersecurity: Travel sector in the crosshairs of hackers

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Cybersecurity: Travel sector in the crosshairs of hackers

By Jitendra Mohan Bhardwaj While The travel and tourism industry was one of the worst-hit sectors in the Covid-19 years, it has begun to pick up at a faster-than-expected pace because of several factors. Even at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, though, the travel and tourism industry’s contribution to the GDP was $121.9 … Read more

What is latest internet threat Log4j? How bad it is and what’s at stake

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What is latest internet threat Log4j? How bad it is and what’s at stake

Log4Shell, an internet vulnerability that affects millions of computers, involves an obscure but nearly ubiquitous piece of software, Log4j. The software is used to record all manner of activities that go on under the hood in a wide range of computer systems. Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, called Log4Shell … Read more

Ransomware Group Targeted Apple Right Before ‘Spring Loaded’ Event

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Ransomware Group Targeted Apple Right Before ‘Spring Loaded’ Event

While Apple was busy preparing for the the ‘Spring Loaded’ event that took place on Tuesday, April 20, a ransomware operator demanded that the company pay a ransom to avoid leaking of data about its next-generation devices. The group REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, claimed on the dark Web that it had gained access to … Read more