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  • 1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko

    Aflac disclosed Friday that it experienced a cyberattack last week that potentially impacted the supplemental insurance company’s data. The Georgia-based company said it identified unauthorized access on its network June 12. Upon initiating its cybersecurity incident response protocols, Aflac “believes that it contained the intrusion within hours,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

  • 1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko

    Cyberattacks targeting Iran’s financial sector widened Wednesday, as a pro-Israel hacktivist group stole more than $90 million from Nobitex, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The attack marks the second attack on Iran’s financial systems in as many days. Predatory Sparrow, the group that self identifies as Gonjeshe Darande in Persian, claimed responsibility for the attack on Nobitex in a social media post early Wednesday.

  • 1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko

    Bank Sepah’s website is offline following a hacktivist group’s claimed attack on the Iran state-owned bank. The group, known as Predatory Sparrow —  or Gonjeshke Darande in Persian — said in a social media post early Tuesday that it “destroyed the data of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Bank Sepah.”Iran-focused media outlets report Bank Sepah branches are closed, customers are unable to access accounts and payment processing is down.

  • 1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko

    Scattered Spider, the loose-knit cybercrime collective that recently ran roughshod over U.K.- and U.S.-based retailers, has pivoted once again, setting its sites on insurance companies, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group. Google previously warned that the financially motivated threat group, which it tracks as UNC3944, was pivoting to U.S. retailers following a wave of ransomware and extortion attacks on retailers and grocery stores in the U.K. in April.

  • 1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko

    Authorities across Europe toppled Archetyp Market, the longest-standing online drug marketplace, and arrested its lead administrator, Europol announced Monday. The coordinated takedown brought an end to a prolific drug marketplace that accumulated more than $290 million in transaction volume since operations began in 2020. The website for Archetyp Market was seized and its alleged administrator, a 30-year-old German national, was arrested in Barcelona, Spain.

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