Ransomware crooks search for ‘insurance’ ‘policy’ right away • The Register - Researchers reviewed 3 years of ransomware forensics and found threat actor SOPs usually involve searching for “insurance” in company documents. If found, ransoms are around 2.8x the average. If there’s a double extortion attempt, the ransom is around 5.5x’s higher.
Law biz appeals £60K ICO fine over 32 GB digital burglary • The Register - UK law firm loses 32GBs of case data and decides its not a personal data breach.
Wyden: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon weren’t notifying senators of surveillance requests | TechCrunch - In the letter, Wyden, a longstanding member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that an investigation by his staff found that carriers were not notifying senators of legal requests — including from the White House — to surveil their phones. A report last year by the Inspector General, revealed that the Trump administration in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained logs of calls and text messages of 43 congressional staffers and two serving House lawmakers, imposing gag orders on the phone companies that received the requests.
Hackers scam Coinbase users and ransom data for $20M • The Register - Coinbase said that at no point during the compromise could the attackers have accessed customers’ funds, and confirmed the sources of the data were insiders bribed to steal information on behalf of the extortionists. The company said the data does not include passwords or private keys, but depending on the use, the following details of its customers may be compromised:
Microsoft ends Authenticator password autofill, moves users to Edge - App will stop storing passwords. Users have until August 1st to move passwords to another option.
June 2025: You can no longer save new passwords in Authenticator. July 2025: Autofill will stop working in Authenticator; stored payment info will be deleted. August 2025: Saved passwords and unsaved generated passwords will no longer be accessible in Authenticator. FBI: End-of-life routers hacked for cybercrime proxy networks - Threat actors are breaking into edge devices, notably Linksys and Cisco EoL routers, and adding them to residential proxy botnets.
Pharmacist accused of spying on women using work, home cams • The Register - Pharmacist spent nearly a decade installing malware on coworkers PCs, including remote web cam viewers and keyloggers. Pharmacist is currently employed at another healthcare system and is not jailed. While the employer is being sued for failing to protect their infrastructure and employees.
VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor • The Register - Free ESXi is back apparently…if you want it.
One of the last Bletchley Park’s heroes Betty Webb dies • The Register - Webb along with a number of other prominent women in the cryptography field worked at Bletchley Park to help decrypt some 10k German intercepts per day. Women have a long history in the Computer Science and Cryptography fields, I would highly recommend Invisible Women by Caroline Perez, Hidden Figures by Shetterly, BROAD band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet - Claire Evans,