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CYBERSECURITY - Eversource Energy Notifies Customers of Data Breach - Eversource Energy, which is the largest energy supplier in New England with 4.3...

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The breach exposed billing names, addresses and card expiry dates, among other information

Hackers Threaten to Leak D.C. Police Informants Info If Ransom Is Not Paid The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack. The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Polices networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypted files. Screenshots shared by the group, and seen by The Hacker News, include various folders containing what appears to be i...

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 CPW has been tracking data breach litigations for some time, including how the Courts of Appeals have addressed the question of Article III standing.  Yesterday the Second Circuit issued a monumental decision that attempts to weave together rulings from other courts to formulate a multi-factor standing analysis.   McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Assocs., 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 12328 (2d Cir. Apr. 27, 2021).   Read on to learn more about this critical data privacy...

BankInfoSecurity May 20, 2021 May 3, 2021 May 5, 2021 Compliance Twitter A screenshot of Babuks claim of attacking the D.C. police department The Babuk ransomware gang is taking credit for an attack against the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., and threatening to post exfiltrated data if a ransom is not paid. The police department confirms that attackers accessed its network, but its offering no further details. Its public-facing website was accessible Tuesday morning. "We ar...

Cyber Intelligence House and INTERPOL sign contribution agreement intended to aid in investigating cybercrime 3 hours ago ANTARA/Business Wire Under the Contribution Agreement, Cyber Intelligence House will provide services to protect data and aid in cybercrime investigations. London--(Antara/Business Wire)- Under the agreement, Cyber Intelligence House (CIH) will be responsible for providing INTERPOL with resources and services that aid in investigating cybercrime, Virtual Asset (VA) crime an...

Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From All Infected Computers Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation. The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emotet as part of "Operation Ladybird" to seize control of servers used to run and maintain the malware network. The orchestrated effort saw at leas...

Dot-org has been offline for a month, says ‘people who have ill intentions’ behind crack Share Copy A “scanlation” website for Manga has admitted that its members credentials have been stolen and are now being shared online. MangaDex.org was rated as the world’s 1,024th-most-trafficed website in March 2021 by Amazon’s web marketing outfit Alexa. The site went offline a few days after achieving that rating, after admitting it had been compromised and telling users that contin...

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