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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

Krebs on Security

” Change shared only that “a cybercriminal accessed our computer system without our permission.” which suffered a data breach in 2015 affecting 78.8 Anthem reported revenues of around $80 billion in 2015. In the section of the missive titled “Why did this happen?,” million individuals.

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Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware

Security Affairs

Croatia government agencies have been targeted by unknown hackers with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. ” reads one of the alerts.

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Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors

Krebs on Security

Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software. Section 8 involves the surreptitious installation of computer programs on computers or networks including malware and spyware.

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Experts linked Maui ransomware to North Korean Andariel APT

Security Affairs

North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, may be eligible for a reward. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Forcing Provision of Computer Password Violates the Fifth Amendment: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

At Appellant’s apartment, after the agents discovered a single computer, an HP Envy 700 desktop, which was encrypted with TrueCrypt, Appellant informed the agents that he lived alone, that he was the sole user of the computer, and that only he knew the password to his computer.

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DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

Security Affairs

The defendant made hundreds of thousands of dollars by launching millions of DDoS attacks with the platforms he was operating with a co-conspirator from August 2015 to November 2017. The man was sentenced on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for launching millions of DDoS attacks. The Chief U.S.

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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill. in , quezstresser[.]com