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The Town of Enfield, New Hampshire, appears to have been the victim of a man-in-the-middle scheme involving the transfer of $742,000 to a fraudulent bank account. The town is constructing a new $7.2 million public safety building. An employee was tricked into sending the payment to a fraudulent bank account instead of the construction company…

Security research firm Halcyon recently reported that it “encountered” a new ransomware organization dubbed Volcano Demon several times in the past few weeks.

According to its report, Volcano Demon uses the encryptor LukaLocker with a .nba file extension. Halcyon provided an encryptor sample in its post.

Although Volcano Demon uses traditional methods of extortion, including…

On December 8, 2023, New York Attorney General Leticia James penned her approval to an Assurance of Discontinuance with third party dental administrator Healthplex, settling the enforcement action for $400,000 and a litany of data privacy and security compliance requirements.

The AG’s investigation commenced following a November 24, 2021, successful phishing attack against Healthplex. The…

PharMerica and its subsidiary Amerita’s Specialty Infusion Services (Amerita) are already facing class action lawsuits after patients received a September 5, 2023, data breach notification letter. When the businesses detected suspicious activity on both the PharMerica and Amerita networks, a forensic investigation determined that a threat actor had gained access to the systems sometime in…

I hate to say, “I told you so,” but I did. I have repeatedly warned against scanning QR codes. Following the pandemic and scanning QR codes at restaurants, people have become very comfortable with scanning QR codes, don’t think twice about it, and don’t fully grasp the risk associated with a malicious QR code. Find…