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Peregrine Corporation, also known as PSL Services, found out about the unauthorized access to the email accounts of several employees from December 16 to December 19, 2019. The company identified the breach after seeing suspicious activity in the email account of an employee. A hired third-party computer forensics agency investigated the breach and affirmed that …

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My Health My Resources (MHMR) of Tarrant County in Fort Worth, TX suffered a phishing attack that resulted in the compromise of some employees’ email accounts. MHMR only detected the phishing attack on December 3, 2019 and initiated an investigation immediately. Based on the investigation results, unauthorized access to the email accounts happened some time …

Phishing Attack on MHMR of Tarrant County and Reva Impacted 7,524 People Read More »

The threat actors responsible for the Maze ransomware attacks are threatening their victims that they will post the information stolen during ransomware attacks if they do not pay the ransom. In December, Southwire in Carrollton, GA did not pay the 200 BTC ($1,664,320) ransom demand, which prompted the threat actors to post some of Southwire’s …

Threat to Publish Stolen Data by Maze Ransomware Group Increasing Read More »

The cybersecurity firm Proofpoint shared its 2020 State of the Phish report, which showed that 65% of American organizations (55% worldwide) experienced at least one successful phishing attack last year 2019. The report was taken from information that Proofpoint gathered from a third-party study participated by 3,500 employed people in the United Kingdom, America, France, …

65% of American Organizations Had Dealt With a Successful Phishing Attack in 2019 Read More »

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published an alert to warn private companies in the U.S. concerning Maze ransomware attacks. FBI gave the alert after receiving an advisory the use of two ransomware variants, MegaCortex and LockerGoga, in attacks. The alert concerning Maze ransomware TLP: Green should not have been publicly announced because it provides …

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Kalispell Regional Healthcare based in Montana is charged with another legal case on account of the May 2019 phishing attack that allowed cybercriminals to access certain employees’ email accounts. Kalispell Regional Healthcare knew about the breach on August 28, 2019. Based on the investigation results, the hackers got access to the employees’ email accounts on …

Second Lawsuit Filed Against Kalispell Regional Healthcare Over Phishing Attack Read More »

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, which is Minnesota’s biggest health insurance company, is presently trying to take care of approximately 200,000 unaddressed vulnerabilities detected on its servers, a number of which are above a decade old. In August 2018, Tom Yardic, cybersecurity engineer at BCBS Minnesota, discovered that patches were not applied to its …

200,000 Critical and Severe Vulnerabilities Being Fixed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Read More »