InfoSec News Nuggets 9/16/2024

Scammers advertise fake AppleCare+ service via GitHub repos We’ve uncovered a malicious campaign going after Mac users looking for support or extended warranty from Apple via the AppleCare+ support plans. The perpetrators are buying Google ads to lure in their victims and redirect them to bogus pages hosted on GitHub, the developer and code repository platform owned by Microsoft. The goal of this scam is to get unsuspecting people on the phone with someone pretending to…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 7/17/2024

Email addresses of 15 million Trello users leaked on hacking forum A threat actor has released over 15 million email addresses associated with Trello accounts that were collected using an unsecured API in January. Trello is an online project management tool owned by Atlassian. Businesses commonly use it to organize data and tasks into boards, cards, and lists. In January, BleepingComputer reported that a threat actor known as 'emo' was selling profiles for 15,115,516 Trello members on a…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 6/7/2024

London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack A ransomware attack that crippled a London-based medical testing and diagnostics provider has led several major hospitals in the city to declare a critical incident emergency and cancel non-emergency surgeries and pathology appointments, it was widely reported Tuesday. The attack was detected Monday against Synnovis, a supplier of blood tests, swabs, bowel tests, and other hospital services in six London boroughs. The company said it has "affected all…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 02/02/2023

City of London on High Alert After Ransomware Attack  A suspected ransomware attack on a key supplier of trading software to the City of London this week appears to have disrupted activity in the derivatives market. Ion Cleared Derivatives released a brief statement on Tuesday saying that it experienced a “cybersecurity event” that day which affected some of its services. “The incident is contained to a specific environment, all the affected servers are disconnected and remediation of services is…
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