Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/missouri-county-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-suspected-ransomware-attack/

Highly sensitive files mysteriously disappeared from EUROPOL headquarters

https://securityaffairs.com/161416/data-breach/europol-highly-sensitive-files-disappeared.html

Crypto phishing attacks reached ‘alarming levels’ — CertiK co-founder

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-phishing-attacks-alarming-certik

Activision Recommends Users Enable 2FA to Secure Accounts Recently Stolen by Malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/activision-enable-2fa-to-secure-accounts-recently-stolen-by-malware/

Disney Will Crack Down on Password Sharing in June

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/04/1752238/disney-will-crack-down-on-password-sharing-in-june

57,000 Kaspersky Fan Club Forum User Data Leaked in Hosting Breach

https://www.hackread.com/57000-kaspersky-fan-club-forum-data-breach/

Online scams have reached epidemic levels

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-online-scams-have-reached-epidemic-levels/

Google sues alleged crypto scammers for luring people into investments they’d never get back

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/4/24114673/google-sues-alleged-crypto-scammers-play-store

OWASP Discloses a Data Breach Due to Wiki Misconfiguration

https://securityaffairs.com/161371/data-breach/owasp-data-breach.html

Shopping platform PandaBuy data leak impacts 1.3 million users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shopping-platform-pandabuy-data-leak-impacts-13-million-users/

Ripple plans to launch a stablecoin later in 2024 that is “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents”

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/04/ripple-developer-behind-xrp-ledger-enters-stablecoin-fray-vs-tether-usdc/

Japanese lens maker Hoya halts production after cyberattack

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/japanese-lens-maker-hoya-halts-production-after-cyberattack-2024-04-04/

Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor

https://www.404media.co/xz-backdoor-bullying-in-open-source-software-is-a-massive-security-vulnerability/

Jackson County In Kansas Confirms Ransomware Attack

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article287325225.html

Florida Memorial University Reportedly Hit By Cyberattack

https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/florida-memorial-university-reportedly-targeted-in-ransomware-cyberattack/article_189afdc2-ef98-11ee-8ca8-035bc2994d17.html

Panera Bread’s mysterious digital channel outage in March was the result of a ransomware attack.

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/panera-breads-digital-outage-reportedly-blamed-ransomware-attack

New HTTP/2 Vulnerability Poses Severe Threat to Server Availability

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1bvuxcp/new_http2_vulnerability_poses_severe_threat_to/

Hackers Stole Russian Prisoner Database

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/31/politics/navalny-russian-prisoner-database-hack/index.html

US government moves $130 million in Bitcoin confiscated from Silk Road to Coinbase

https://cryptoslate.com/us-government-moves-30175-bitcoin-confiscated-from-silk-road-to-coinbase/

Magecart Attackers Pioneer Persistent E-Commerce Backdoor

https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/magecart-attackers-pioneer-persistent-ecommerce-backdoor

US cancer center data breach exposes info of 827,000 patients

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-cancer-center-data-breach-exposes-info-of-827-000-patients/

Ransomware, Junk Bank Accounts: Cyber Threats Proliferate in Vietnam

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ransomware-junk-bank-accounts-cyberthreats-proliferates-in-vietnam

U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board blames Microsoft for Chinese hack

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/04/03/u-s-cyber-safety-review-board-blames-microsoft-for-chinese-hack.html

Cyber incident at a hospital in California, USA

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/video/northbay-vacavalley-hospital-cyberattack-heres-how-its-impacting-patients/

SurveyLama data breach exposes info of 4.4 million users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/surveylama-data-breach-exposes-info-of-44-million-users/

Cyberattacks Wreaking Physical Disruption on the Rise

https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/cyberattacks-wreaking-physical-disruption-on-the-rise

DDoS attacks on investigative articles on a financial news site in South Africa

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/in-depth/investigations/massive-cyberattack-targets-moneywebs-banxso-articles/

Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-facebook-midjourney-ai-page-promoted-malware-to-12-million-people/

Wiz Discovers Flaws in GenAI Models Enabling Customer Data Theft

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/wiz-discovers-flaws-generative-ai/

China-Linked Threat Actor Taps 'Peculiar' Malware to Evade Detection

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/china-linked-threat-actor-using-peculiar-malware-to-hide-malicious-activities

DDoS attack on an online system of the Libyan central bank

https://libyaobserver.ly/economy/central-bank-libya-cyberattack-has-targeted-foreign-currency-online-platform

The permissionless defi protocol @OpenLeverage has been exploited for ~$236K. The attacker was funded by Tornado Cash

https://www.immunebytes.com/blog/list-of-largest-crypto-hacks-in-2024/

A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices

https://www.404media.co/a-law-firm-of-ai-generated-lawyers-is-sending-fake-threats-as-an-seo-scam/

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost_state_ditches_windows/

Some Amazon merchants complain of scam returns, where buyers ship junk back to sellers and claim they are returns, and say Amazon's policies favor customers

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-sellers-plagued-by-surge-in-scam-returns-04c86665

Feds probe massive alleged classified US govt data theft and leak

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/feds_data_dump/

Florida Department of Juvenile Justice computer network hacked

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/04/florida-juvenile-justice-systems-offline-after-hacker-break-in/73207520007/

One Tech Tip: How to use apps to track and photograph the total solar eclipse

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-tech-tip-apps-track-073446173.html