On Monday, shortly after Australian health insurer Medibank said it will not pay a ransom following a recent cyberattack, the BlogXX/REvil ransomware gang threatened to make stolen Medibank customer information public.
US Seizes $3.4 Billion in Bitcoin Stolen From Silk Road
The US government announced Monday it had seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin from a real estate developer who stole the cryptocurrency from the dark web marketplace Silk Road a decade ago.
Microsoft: China Flaw Disclosure Law Part of Zero-Day Exploit Surge
The world’s largest software maker is warning that China-based nation state threat actors are taking advantage of a one-year-old law to “stockpile” zero-days for use in sustained malware attacks.
Darwinium Raises $10 Million for Customer Protection Platform
Darwinium, a San Francisco-based startup focused on customer protection, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Blackbird and Airtree, with participation from prominent angel investors.
SolarWinds Agrees to Pay $26 Million to Settle Shareholder Lawsuit Over Data Breach
Texas-based IT management solutions provider SolarWinds has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit over the data breach disclosed by the company in 2020.
Web Scraping – Is It Legal and Can It Be Prevented?
Web scraping is a sensitive issue. Should a third party be allowed to visit a website and use automated tools to gather and store information at scale from that website? What if that information includes personal data? What does the law say? Can it be prevented? This is what we’ll discuss.
FBI Warns of Hacktivist DDoS Attacks, But Says Impact Limited
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert to encourage organizations to proactively implement distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack defenses in the wake of hacktivist assaults, but says incidents so far have had little impact.
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 39 Deals Announced in October 2022
Nation-State Hacker Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Soar: Microsoft
According to Microsoft’s 2022 Digital Defense Report, nation-state hacker attacks on critical infrastructure have soared, largely due to Russian cyber operations targeting Ukraine and its allies.
Medibank Confirms Data Breach Impacts 9.7 Million Customers
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that the data of 9.7 million customers was compromised in a recent cyberattack.
The incident was identified on October 12, before threat actors could deploy file-encrypting ransomware, but not before they stole data from the company’s systems.













