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Aflac duped by social-engineering attack, marking another hit on insurance industry

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.
Iran’s financial sector takes another hit as largest crypto exchange is targeted

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.
Unusually patient suspected Russian hackers pose as State Department in ‘sophisticated’ attacks on researchers

1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Tim Starks

The hackers targeting prominent researcher and Russian military expert Keir Giles were different this time. The attackers, suspected to be working on behalf of the Russian government, had ginned up the May solicitation email for a consultation with a state.gov address, one that didn’t get a bounceback message when Giles replied. They spoke convincing English, and delivered their message during East Coast business hours.
Researchers say AI hacking tools sold online were powered by Grok, Mixtral

1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson

Multiple variants of jailbroken and uncensored AI tools being sold on hacker forums were likely generated using popular commercial large language models from Mistral AI and X’s Grok, according to research published Tuesday from Cato Networks.
Iran’s Bank Sepah disrupted by cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group

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.
Cyber experts call for supercharging volunteer network to protect community organizations

1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson

The United States should move toward a new model where “target rich, resource-poor” community organizations like hospitals, schools, utilities and municipal governments share their cybersecurity responsibilities with “other, more capable actors” in the government and private sectors.
Federal cyber insurance backstop should be tied to expiring terrorism insurance law, report recommends

1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Tim Starks

Congress should use renewal of an expiring terrorism insurance program to create a federal backstop for cybersecurity insurance, according to a report out Tuesday that tries to thread many difficult needles to bolster an industry that its author says isn’t developing fast enough.
Scattered Spider, fresh off retail sector attack spree, pivots to insurance industry

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.
SEC withdrawals cyber rules for investment companies, advisers

1 week ago | cyberscoop.com | Tim Starks

The Securities and Exchange Commission is pulling back cybersecurity regulations for investment companies and investment advisers proposed under the Biden administration. In a notice last week, the SEC said it was withdrawing pending rules requiring those companies and advisers to develop written policies to address cybersecurity risks and report significant cybersecurity incidents to the commission.
European authorities disrupt top drug marketplace, arrest leader

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.