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The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey was forced to cancel a performance of “A Christmas Carol” earlier this week after a ransomware attack disrupted its database and ticketing system, causing a show reservations nightmare. Performances of the show, which run through Dec. 29, are now back underway. However, the ransomware has disabled the company’s online…. .

In a lawsuit filed yesterday, Facebook is accusing a Hong Kong-based company of infecting individuals with malware in order to hijack their Facebook ad accounts and run malicious advertisements at their expense. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based social media company filed the legal documentation in a San Francisco federal court against ILikeAd Media International Company Ltd.,…. .

The loud pleas made by the cybersecurity industry, along with the repeated examples of what happens when login credentials are reused, seemingly have fallen on deaf ears as Microsoft found more than 44 million repeated passwords just for its Azure AD and Microsoft Services Accounts.

The Fort Worth, Texas Water Department is notifying about 3,000 customers that their payment information may have been exposed during a data breach. The utility reported that payments made between August 27, 2019 and October 23, 2019 were included in the breach and the content exposed included cardholder’s name, credit card billing address, credit card…. .

Today, most companies know cybersecurity diligence is an essential part of doing business. Yet, it may still be a bit of a surprise how extensively cybersecurity has evolved to become an elemental business component that grows revenue and opens doors for market expansion. From contracts and financing to mergers and acquisitions, an organization’s information security…. .

The U.S. today announced legal and regulatory action against the powerhouse cybercriminal group Evil Corp, filing hacking and bank fraud charges against two of its suspected members. Authorities are also offering a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest or conviction of one of the group’s alleged masterminds, 32-year-old Maksim Yakubets of Moscow,…. .

Hundreds of thousands of cell phone bills and other documents belonging to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers were reportedly exposed after a Sprint contractor left them sitting on an open public server. The documents had been collected and stored in the first place as part a marketing effort to persuade subscribers of rival carrier services…. .

Data center provider CyrusOne was reportedly hit with a combination ransomware/data breach involving the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware. Details are scarce, but ZDNet reported the attack took place on December 4. A screenshot of the ransom note indicated all the files were locked and that the threat actors would allow one file to be decrypted…. .

Bug bounty platform provider HackerOne Tuesday disclosed that one of its own security analysts mistakenly sent a session cookie to a white-hat researcher on Nov. 24, allowing the researcher to take over the analyst’s account and access vulnerability reports on a number of companies.

Looking at the rapidly evolving role of CISOs and their teams, many organizations have yet to optimize their approach to cybersecurity to a place where it’s not just a preventative business function but assumes a wider role in business success, be that customer acquisition, retention or any number of other critical factors.

Cybercriminals are reportedly attempting to trick users of the Steam video game digital distribution service into visiting a phishing site that pretends to give away new game skins, but actually steals login credentials. Researcher “nullcookies” first reported the fraudulent giveaway promotion in a Twitter post late last month. BleepingComputer followed up on the post and…. .

Facebook ads are being targeted by a new trojan which could allow a malicious actor to access not only regular advertisements but the growing number of political spots being posted to the social media giant. The trojan, called Socelars, is distributed through a fake PDF editing app named PDFreader attempts to mine data from Facebook…. .

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) recently posted a document confirming a cyber event that occurred on a western U.S. electrical grid in spring 2019, marking the first cyberattack on an American grid and, more importantly, striking a chord among operators.

TikTok secretly transferred user data to China without obtaining consent, according to a lawsuit filed by a college student in the Northern District of California. Misty Hong claimed the viral video service culled off her personal videos and information, then funneled it to servers in China. “Allegations that TikTok has been accumulating data about U.S.….

Attorney William Barr reportedly has signaled that he’ll dispute the apparent finding in the much-anticipated Justice Department Inspector General (IG) report that in the summer of 2016 the FBI had enough evidence to pursue an investigation into Trump campaign members’ ties to and possible coordination with Russian operatives.

A new remote access trojan whose name reminds one of a fairytale and not the potential nightmare it could bring to its victim has been disclosed by Cylance. PyXie Python RAT has been flitting about since 2018 helping deliver ransomware and other malware to the healthcare and education industries. The RAT has been tracked being…. .

Concern over the cybersecurity threat posed by China helped push Japan to become a full participant in NATO’s recent cybersecurity wargames. Japan had participated in previous Cyber Coalition exercises, but held only observer level status but this year a team of 20 attended in various drills including a hack back scenario, reported the Nikkei Asian…. .

The e-commerce website of weapons manufacturer Smith & Wesson has been targeted by a Magecart payment card-skimming group that’s been using lookalike domain names to impersonate payment anti-fraud company Sanguine Security. The Smith & Wesson website was compromised with a JavaScript-based skimmer last Wednesday, Nov. 27 – in time to steal card information for any…. .

What at first looked like a single data breach affecting Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland turned out to be a series of breaches that impacted thousands of more students than was originally reported. On Oct. 4, 2019, MCPS disclosed that a district student had one day earlier allegedly executed a brute-force credentials-stealing attack…. .

Church’s Chicken suffered a cyberattack that penetrated the payment processing system at some of the chain’s corporate locations compromising payment card information. The company operates 941 locations across the United States, but in a statement noted only 165 of those, all owned and operated by the corporation, were impacted. Payment card numbers, names and expiration…. .

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