BIRMINGHAM – A massive AT&T Cyberattack caused Hackers to Steal Millions of Customer Records. Consequently, AT&T revealed that nearly all of its wireless customers' call and text records were exposed. Furthermore, the hackers accessed customer data stored on a third-party cloud platform. Cybersecurity expert Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest and publisher of the Security Yearbook,
NEW YORK – According to the RockYou2024 file, Nearly 10 Billion Passwords were Stolen By Hackers on July 8th. In fact, hackers leaked one of the largest password compilations online. Consequently, a massive password data breach exposed nearly 10 billion unique plain text passwords. The leaked file, titled "RockYou2024.txt", contains a staggering 9,948,575,739 compromised login
NEW YORK - Android banking Trojan Medusa has returned after almost a yearlong hiatus and is now even more dangerous. The new variant of the Trojan is lightweight and requests fewer device permissions to avoid detection. First identified in 2020, Medusa is a Turkish-linked banking Trojan that initially targeted Turkish financial institutions. It expanded rapidly by 2022,
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — SensCy, a leader in cybersecurity for small and medium sized organizations, announced the appointment of Frank Sadeghi as President, effective July 1st. Prior to joining SensCy, Frank served as Global EVP of RethinkCare - a leading behavioral and mental health platform supporting neurodiversity in the workplace and at home. Previously, Frank held senior
DETROIT - Hackers often use malicious documents or pirated software as a means of getting their malware onto vulnerable devices, but a new Windows flaw could let them do so over Wi-Fi. As reported by Forbes, this new Wi-Fi vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2024-30078) affects all versions of Windows, and if exploited, it can be used by an attacker to infect vulnerable
ANN ARBOR - MICyberPatriot needs contributions to support its critical mission of increasing the number of Michigan Schools participating in the national CyberPatriot Program. But MICyberPatriot isn't just aimed at grade-school students. It also provides education for parents and grand parents who may not be cyber savvy, but want to communicate with the younger generation
NEW YORK - Black hat hackers have reportedly unleashed malicious software targeting over 1,500 banks and their customers worldwide. Security researchers at IBM say a revamped version of the Grandoreiro banking trojan has just rolled out, enabling attackers to perform banking fraud in 60 countries. The malware allows attackers to send email notices that appear to be
ANN ARBOR - Law enforcement in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia today jointly named Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged operator of the LockBitSupp handle and the organizational mastermind behind the notorious LockBit ransomware group, which has been on a multiyear hacking rampage exporting an estimated $500 million from its victims.
YPSILANTI - Tamara Shoemaker, VP, CyberPatriot, Co-Founder Midwest CISSE Chapter, won the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Education Award on May 14 at the Woman of the Year in Technology ceremony at Suburban Showplace. The award said: Shoemaker inspires participation and develops the capabilities of countless young women in cybersecurity as the Michigan director
SOUTHFIELD - Ascension Health, the nation's largest chain of Catholic hospitals, said it was responding to a cyberattack that was disrupting its operations. Cybersecurity experts Dan Lohrmann from Presidio and Richard Stiennon from IT-Harvest break down the attack, which also has impacted the nursing program at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield. In a press release
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