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The perp faces jail time, but the incident highlights the growing cyber-abuse of QR codes.

minute read Share this article: A coalition of 60 global entities (including the DoJ) has proposed a sweeping plan to hunt down and disrupt ransomware gangs by going after their financial operations. Ransomware has reached crisis levels across business sectors and across the globe, but a public-private Ransomware Task Force aims to stem the tide of attacks by disrupting the crooks’ business model. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against Ransomware, DDoS & Cryptoja...

minute read Share this article: Sorry, we’ve upchucked your COVID test results and other medical and personal data into public GitHub storage buckets, the Wyoming Department of Health said. The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said on Wednesday it accidentally posted COVID test results of state residents onto their public-facing storage buckets.  The WDH said in a public advisory that an employee fumbled the health information of about 164,021 Wyoming residents and of people f...

Researchers fear wider exposure, amidst a tepid response from Experian. A researcher is claiming that the credit scores of almost every American were exposed through an API tool used by the Experian credit bureau, that he said was left open on a lender site without even basic security protections. Experian, for its part, refuted concerns from the security community that the issue could be systemic. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against Ransomware, DDoS & Cryptojacking Attacks�...

minute read Share this article: Information stolen in April 10 ransomware attack was posted on a dark web portal and includes private documents not published as part of public records. The ransomware gang identified as DoppelPaymer has leaked a substantial collection of files from the Illinois Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on a server controlled by the cybercriminal group. The move came after ransom negotiations between the two parties broke down following a ransomware attac...

minute read Share this article: The KDC-spoofing flaw tracked as CVE-2021-23008 can be used to bypass Kerberos security and sign into the Big-IP Access Policy Manager or admin console. F5 Networks’ Big-IP Application Delivery Services appliance contains a Key Distribution Center (KDC) spoofing vulnerability, researchers disclosed – which an attacker could use to get past the security measures that protect sensitive workloads. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Agai...