On day five of the Windows outages due to a faulty CrowdStrike update, there is cautious optimism as IT experts report significant restoration of downed systems. One IT asset management provider said that 93% of affected CrowdStrike systems across its customer base appear to have been fixed.
Hackers stole sensitive information belonging to roughly half of Australia's population during an April ransomware attack against e-prescription firm MediSecure, which says it can't afford the incident's "significant" response costs. The company has announced its liquidation.
Microsoft's statement that a faulty CrowdStrike update affected less than 1% of active Windows systems doesn't tell the full story, since large organizations in critical sectors make up a disproportionate part of the user base, as the outages in healthcare, transportation and banking demonstrate.
Banks, airlines, media giants and others are being disrupted by a mass, global IT outage tied to Windows PCs. While CrowdStrike has issued a workaround tied to a Falcon software update that appears to be the culprit, many IT administrators say it so far remains difficult to implement at scale.
This week, Microsoft and Adobe released patches, Europol pushed back against mobile encryption, Japan warned of Kimsuky attacks, the FBCS breach victim count grew, and a fraud campaign offered fake tickets to the Summer Olympics in Paris.
In the wake of multiple customers of Snowflake collectively losing terabytes of data to attackers, the cloud-based data warehousing platform has rolled out a swath of cybersecurity improvements, including allowing administrators to make multifactor authentication mandatory for all users.
Evolve Bank & Trust disclosed that hackers stole the data of more than 7.6 million individuals in an incident detected in May. The Arkansas firm has been in incident disclosure mode for weeks now, following Evolve's listing on the LockBit leak site in late June.
HealthEquity, which administers healthcare benefits plans for employers, has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a data exfiltration breach involving the compromised credentials of a third-party vendor. The incident did not disrupt IT systems or processes.
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CDK Global, a dealership software solutions company that provides tech solutions to an estimated 15,000 auto dealers in the United States and Canada, is aiming to restore its systems by the July Fourth holiday sales rush while facing an incoming flurry of lawsuits from dealers and consumers.
A ransomware attack against Evolve Bank & Trust triggered a small cascade of secondary breach notifications by current and past clients of the banking-as-a-service company. Russian-speaking ransomware-as-a-service operation LockBit attacked the Arkansas company in May.
A February ransomware attack against Prudential Financial affected 2.5 million customers, the financial giant disclosed after initially calculating the totally as 36,000. In an emailed statement, Prudential said the tally shouldn't increase a second time.
This week, cyber insurance policies fell short, the Supreme Court rejected efforts to fight disinformation, Polyfill apparently was hijacked, cybercriminals stole chicken, Levi warned of a credential stuffing attack, hackers targeted Android devices, and a lab in South Africa was hit by ransomware.
Add luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus and the Los Angeles Unified School District to the list of known victims of a cybercrime that accessed accounts at cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake. Other victims include Santander Bank and Live Nation Entertainment's Ticketmaster.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed Monday that hackers attacked one of its critical tools housing private sector chemical security plans earlier this year after gaining access by exploiting vulnerabilities found in Ivanti products used by the cyber defense agency.
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