Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Plastic Surgery Hack Leads to Sensitive Patient Photos Being Leaked

Plastic surgery is already a taboo subject, so hackers targeted Hankins and Sohn with hopes that the leverage of personal medical information would lead to a major payout. The hackers did not get what they had hoped for, and moved on to extorting victims. When that ended up fruitless, sensitive images and information were posted online and sent to friends and neighbors.
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SolarWinds Sued by SEC Over Major Hack

Victims of cyberattacks are sometimes sued by customers when there is a breach of personal data, but very few have the United States government as a customer and very few data breaches involve Russian espionage. SolarWinds allegedly misled customers about security practices, and may be paying a hefty price for it.
 
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The Morris Worm: The First Felony Cybercrime

One of the earliest examples of malware was an experiment that simply got way too out of control and ended up leading to the first conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This is the history of the Morris Worm.
 
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Trigona Ransomware Group Wiped by Hacktivists

Ransomware gangs are a major threat to all organizations big or small, and rarely do we see them lose due to the situations they put people in. Last week, however, a major emerging threat was satisfyingly stomped out by a hacktivist group.
 
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High Rated Curl Vuln Not as Bad as Initially Assumed

When developers of curl announced a cycle cut short to fix a high severity vulnerability, administrators panicked. Although still bad, the vulnerability ended up only executable under pretty specific circumstances.
 
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To Pay or Not to Pay? MGM vs Caesar’s on Ransomware

Ransomware can be handled in two different ways: Paying, or not paying. It's controversial which option is best. Two casinos had a ransomware incident and once paid while the other did not, let's compare.
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Libwebp Vulnerability Present Just About Everywhere

What was thought to be a Chrome bug turned out to be a much larger and much more serious vulnerability in a library used to render webp images that could allow code to be remotely executed on target systems.
 
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New Stealthy Sandman Hackers Target Telco Companies

Hackers are constantly innovating and trying new things to break into systems, last week a new attacker was discovered that is writing malware in a rarely seen programming language using an even stranger compiler.
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