Alexander Martin reports: An OpenAI agent gained “unauthorized access” to “non-public files” from an Australian government health website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday. The agent — an AI system designed to carry out tasks autonomously — accessed a public portal for Medicare statistics, Albanese said at a press conference in New York...

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Brandi Makuski reports: Stevens Point officials are investigating a possible cyberattack after several city computer servers went offline early Wednesday, disrupting municipal phone and email services and leaving employees unable to access some city systems. District 4 Councilwoman Andrea Olson said city IT employees notified staff and council members of a cyberattack in a 6:51...

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From the DOJ: Ardit Kutleshi, 28, a Kosovar national, pleaded guilty to charges related to his creation and operation of Rydox, an illicit website and marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell and trade stolen personal information, and to access devices and other tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud. “The guilty plea of Ardit Kutleshi...

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On September 22, WYPR reported: Luminis Health says it’s making considerable progress on restoring systems at two Maryland hospitals after they were hit by a cyberattack earlier this month. The company said in an online update that its telephone capabilities at Anne Arundel Medical Center and Doctors Community Medical Center in Lanham have been restored...

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Maggie Mullen reports: The Wyoming Judicial Branch says it’s awaiting more details regarding the scope of a cybersecurity breach of a third-party software company that may have included a decade’s worth of data from the state’s court system. West Publishing Corporation, which the Wyoming Supreme Court and Wyoming district courts previously used for case management,...

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Kudos to WBTV for following up on an astute observer’s vulnerability report. David Hodges reports: North Carolina residents summoned for jury duty received notice through a letter in the mail but to request an exemption from jury duty in North Carolina, a person can go online and fill out a jury excuse form. Zach Duda...

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Lindsey Tonsager, Jenna Zhang, and Irene Kim of Covington and Burling summarize some recent bills signed into law. From their article: Companion Chatbots. Adam’s Law (SB 1119) requires operators of a “companion chatbot” to determine the age of users consistent with the Digital Age Assurance Act and imposes a series of obligations before making a...

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Joseph Cox reports: The catastrophic hack of at least thousands of FBI officials’ personal data, including their addresses, phone numbers, and even their spouses, includes members of the FBI’s secretive hacking team, potentially revealing who exactly is in that unit, 404 Media has found. The findings further highlight how sensitive the stolen data is, and...

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A new dedicated leak site by threat actors calling themselves “The Seven Deadly Sins” lists Canva Pty Ltd among the sites that haven’t paid them. DataBreaches obtained additional details on the incident and this new group. Attack on Canva A spokesperson for The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) informed DataBreaches that on August 28, TSDS attacked...

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Abinaya reports: An Armenian national extradited from Ukraine to the United States has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks that targeted organizations worldwide, including a company in Oregon. Karen Vardanyan, 35, received a 24-month federal prison sentence followed by 3 years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s...

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Daryna Antoniuk reports: Latvian police arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of hacking at least two companies, stealing personal information and attempting to extort money from the victims, authorities said Wednesday. The first attack was detected in February, while a second — using similar methods — was discovered in early September at TSC, an electronics repair...

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The EU built an early-warning system to catch the next major cyberattack before it spreads. Roughly 20 months later, auditors have found it still is not fully switched on. Jonathan Bent reports: Brussels has allocated €1.4 billion to defending Europe from cyberattacks. Its own auditors found that when that funding is passed on to third...

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Sorami Consulting reports: Users and systems trying to connect to Elsevier Evolve, Sherpath, and ClinicalPharmacology are being redirected to extortion splash pages tied to LAPSUS$ (pointing to domains including lapsus[.]ar[.]io and lapsus[.]bz). While public discussion on Reddit is dominated by nursing and medical students locked out of exams and simulation charting, the real blast radius...

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Joseph Cox reports: A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the group, called ShinyHunters, told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse. The data breach could be massively...

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Amir Kurz recently reported: Three weeks after his arrest, the State Attorney’s Office’s Cyber Department on Thursday filed a major indictment against Michael “Miki” Bar, a 43-year-old hacker from Ashkelon who served as Chief Information Security Officer for the Hamat Group. The group itself has no connection to the charges. According to the indictment, Bar...

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Shannon Moudy reports: Some systems are offline Monday after Spokane Public Schools says it experienced an overnight ‘network security incident.’ In an email sent to families Monday, the district says the situation is being investigated. “Out of an abundance of caution, we have chosen to take several of our systems offline. As a result, families...

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Matt Kapko reports: Another core member of the hacker subset of The Com involved in a spree of extortion attacks from at least 2021 to 2023 pleaded guilty to federal charges, according to court records released Tuesday. Ahmed Hossam Eldin Elbadawy, a 24-year-old from Texas, pleaded guilty exactly one year ago to wire fraud conspiracy...

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Suzanne Smalley reports: Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne has launched a probe of IDScan.net in the wake of reports that a bad actor penetrated company databases to steal personal data and scans of 153 million people’s drivers’ licenses. IDScan.net’s technology is widely used by industry — particularly in the retail and hospitality sectors —...

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Brian O’Donovan reports: Tech giant Google has been fined €403m by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) over the processing of location data. Under data protection rules, such information must be processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner. The DPC said that its investigation into Google found failures in this regard meaning that people could...

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Lawrence Abrams reports: The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation’s data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service. The attack began Friday night when ShinyHunters exploited what they claim is an unauthenticated file upload vulnerability in Grav CMS, which...

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