Major insurance company Aflac, the top provider of supplemental health insurance in the United States, has disclosed a recent cyber attack. Aflac Incorporated identified suspicious activity on its network in the U.S. on June 12, and initiated its cyber incident response protocols and stopped the intrusion, the company stated in a press release The attack, […]

Major Russian retailers Lenta, Miratorg, and Yandex Lavka have disclosed significant dairy supply chain disruptions after the country’s Mercury platform used for animal-based product certification was downed by a cyberattack earlier last week, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Source link …………………….

The US Department of Homeland Security has warned American businesses to guard their networks against Iranian government-sponsored cyberattacks along with “low-level” digital intrusions by pro-Iran hacktivists. In a Sunday terrorism advisory, the department warned of a “heightened threat environment in the United States” following the American airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. These […]

Four REvil ransomware members arrested in January 2022 were released by Russia on time served after they pleaded guilty to carding and malware distribution charges. As they confirmed, Andrey Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, Roman Muromsky, and Dmitry Korotayev were involved in the Revil gang’s carding activities between October 2015 and January 2022, according to the Russian […]

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The Cleveland Police Department has welcomed home a new K-9, the first of his kind in Southeast Tennessee. The one-year-old black lab is named Kache, and is trained as an Electronic Storage Detection K-9. ESD K-9’s are trained to locate evidence such as cellphones, computers, SD cards, and flash drives. His main […]

McLaren Health Care, a major healthcare organization based in Grand Blanc, Michigan, has disclosed a significant data breach that compromised the personal information of 743,131 individuals nationwide. The breach notification, filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, reveals that the healthcare provider experienced an external system breach through hacking activities that occurred on […]

Watch out, insurance industry. A well-known cybercrime group appears to have shifted focus to insurers. Apparently, recent cybersecurity incidents at Erie Insurance, Philadelphia Insurance Cos., and most recently Aflac are indicative of a trend. The largely decentralized hacking group known as Scattered Spider have switched focus from retailers to insurance companies, according to Google Threat […]

Around the same time, another insurer, Erie Insurance, also experienced a network disruption that started June 7. While the companies did not confirm a link, the similarity in timing and scope has prompted cybersecurity analysts to investigate the possibility of coordinated intrusions. Source link …………………….