Articles by Margi Murphy and Charles Gorrivan

Snowflake Hacker Still Active, Finding New Victims, Expert Says

A hacker responsible for a cybercrime campaign that impacted up to 165 companies this summer is still at large and recently broke into a “handful” of new organizations, according to a cybersecurity specialist at Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The attacker, who …

Suspected Chinese Hackers Hit Taiwanese Research Center

A hacking group believed to be linked to the Chinese government stole passwords and documentsfrom a Taiwanese government-affiliated research center that specializes in computing, cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday. The attackers used a kind of malicious software …

Microsoft Reports Outage of Some Office and Cloud Services

Updated: July 30, 3 p.m. EDT Microsoft Corp. said it has started to resolve an outage affecting its Azure cloud service. The issue resulted from an unexpected usage surge, according to a status page with live updates on the incident. …

Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos

Hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT services providers to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter. Leidos recently learned of the issue and believes the documents were …

Evolve Bank & Trust Confirms Data Was Stolen in Cyberattack

Evolve Bank & Trust confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack and that customer data had been posted on the dark web, less than two weeks after the Arkansas-based lender was ordered by regulators to improve its risk management …

Hackers Grow More Sinister and Brazen in Hunt for Bigger Ransoms

A hack on a London hospital has left hundreds of millions of health records exposed and forced doctors to reschedule life-altering cancer treatments. In North America, a gang tried auctioning off data about LendingTree Inc. customers after finding credentials in …

BlackSuit Cybercrime Gang Blamed in CDK Hack That Roiled Car Dealers

A hacking group called BlackSuit is behind the cyberattack on CDK Global that’s paralyzed car sales across the US, according to Allan Liska, a threat analyst at the security firm Recorded Future Inc. The cybercrime group has demanded an extortion …

Hackers Auction Off Stolen LendingTree Consumers’ Data

Hackers are selling data about consumers of the LendingTree Inc. subsidiary QuoteWizard after the company detected unauthorized access on a cloud database hosted by Snowflake Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. There have been several listings of …

Hackers Auction Off Stolen LendingTree Consumers’ Data: Source

Hackers are selling data about consumers of the LendingTree Inc. subsidiary QuoteWizard after the company detected unauthorized access on a cloud database hosted by Snowflake Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. There have been several listings of …

Hackers Demand as Much as $5 Million From Snowflake Clients

Cybercriminals are demanding payments of between $300,000 and $5 million apiece from as many as 10 companies breached in a campaign that targeted Snowflake Inc. customers, according to a security firm helping with the investigation. The hacking scheme has entered …