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In this episode of BnB, we discuss the top 5 cybersecurity news of the week:    1. Trickbot internal message leaked  2. Memorial Hermann patients affected by breach  3. Puma affected by Kronos incident  4. More dark net forums seized in government effort  5. $3.6 billon of stolen bitcoin recovered

In this episode of Bourbon and Data Breaches, we discuss the week's top 5 cybersecurity news:   1. Belarusian railways compromised.   2. Linn County officials try to get systems up and running.   3. OpenSubtitles confirms data breach affecting 7 million people.    4. Bloomington school district reveals a 334 percent spike in cybersecurity insurance rates.    5. School district didn't inform parents about the attack, so threat actors reached out to the victims directly.

Welcome to the first BnB episode of 2022. In this episode, we cover the Top Five Cybersecurity News of the Week of January 10th:    1. AvosLocker remotely access boxes in safe mode.    2. Ransomware group Ragnar_Locker claims successful hack of Sectrio.   Bourbon Break: In this episode, we try the Two Stars Bourbon.    3. A ransomware attack on an Alberquerque jail took away access to camera feeds and disabled automatic door mechanisms.     4. Hackers target dozens of Ukrainian government websites and leave message "be afraid and expect the worst."    5. Members of REvil ransomware gang arrested in Russia.

This is the final Bourbon and Data Breaches Videocast of the Year. In this episode, we cover the Top Five Cybersecurity News of the Week of November 29th:    1. IKEA battles an ongoing cyberattack where multiple employees were targeted to become victims of phishing attacks.    2. Panasonic faces another data breach where hackers took advantage of a third-party vendor. The tech giant is working to fix the impact.   Bourbon Break: In this episode, we try the Heaven's Door Double Barrel Whiskey by Bob Dylan.    3. DNA Diagnostics Center, a DNA testing firm in Ohio, was recently breached. Hackers gain access to the information of over 2 million customers.    4. Notorious fraudster Krasr recruits 7 Amazon employees as moles and steals $160,000 from the business.    5. Planned Parenthood (Los Angeles) data breach results in 400,000 people whose data was stolen.

In this episode, the HackNotice Team discusses the latest cybersecurity news.  1. "A new wave of attacks starting late last week has hacked close to 300 WordPress sites to display fake encryption notices, trying to trick the site owners into paying 0.1 bitcoin for restoration. These ransom demands come with a countdown timer to induce a sense of urgency and possibly panic a web admin into paying the ransom." 2. "Trading platform Robinhood said Monday that personal information for more than 7 million customers was accessed during a data breach on November 3rd. The company said in a news release that it does not appear that Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, or debit card numbers were exposed, and no customers have had “financial loss” due to the incident." 3. "The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Saturday confirmed unidentified threat actors have breached one of its email servers to blast hoax messages about a fake "sophisticated chain attack." 4. "A secretive Israeli company helped hack a British news site and used it to take over the devices of some people who visited the site, cyber researchers say. The cybersecurity firm ESET said in a report Tuesday that the company, Candiru, helped an unknown foreign government hack the London news site Middle East Eye with a so-called watering hole attack, which places malicious software on a website to infect and hack the computers of people who visit it." 5. "Roughly three months after Eskenazi Health released a statement announcing a cyber security breach that compromised personal data, some patients are just now receiving that news in the mail. According to this release posted last month, Eskenazi Health was notified of a cyber attack “on or about August 4, 2021” that resulted in the personal information of some employees and patients being leaked to cybercriminals. However, the same release claims the breach actually happened three months prior “on or about May 19, 2021.”

In this week of Bourbon and Data Breaches, the HackNotice Team discusses the Top 5 cybersecurity news of the week:  1. The U.K. Labor Party has a "cyber incident" that exposed the details of both supporters and members.  2. Kaspersky says threat actors in a spear-phishing attempt used an Amazon eMail token issued to a third-party contractor.  3. Ransomware group Conti targets a prolific jeweler, exposes details of affluent people and celebrities.  4. Cryptocurrency lender CREAM Finance was recently hacked that led to over $130 million stolen.  5. A Luton man's identity was stolen, and the identity thief sold the man's house on the man's behalf.

In this episode of bourbon and data breaches, the HackNotice team discusses the five latest cybersecurity breaches of this week:   1. A hacker breached the Argentinian government and stole the entire country’s ID details. The data is now being sold in private circles.   2. The notorious ransomware group REvil claims that they are closing shop again.   Bourbon Break: LoneStar 1835 Single Barrell Bourbon Whiskey. 3. Sinclair TV-Network outage was not a technical difficulty but a ransomware attack.  4. A ransomware gang found a creative way to recruit members. Posing as a cybersecurity company.  5. Ferrara, a prominent U.S. candy-maker, suffers a ransomware incident right before Halloween.

In this episode of bourbon and data breaches, the HackNotice team discusses the five latest cybersecurity breaches of this week:   1. OnlyFans Employees were able to access Models' and Users' data even after leaving.    2. Facebook outage blamed on bad DNS server and BGP issues.   3. Twitch suffered a major data breach, where hackers accessed 'everything.'   4. Syniverse quietly admits to hackers being in their system for years.   5. Outdated and Misconfigured Apache Airflow servers leak sensitive data information.

In this episode of bourbon and data breaches, the HackNotice team discusses the five latest cybersecurity breaches of this week:   1. Ransomware gang BlackMatter targets New Cooperative, IOWA, demanding a $5.9 Million Ransom.    2. Biden administration targets ransomware payment 'enablers.'   3. FBI held onto the decryptor key during the REvil attacks in July.   4. Information of 250 Afghan interpreters exposed on accident    5. Anonymus takes credit for taking of hosting provider Epik, leaks data of 15 million users

In this episode of bourbon and data breaches, the HackNotice team discusses the five latest cybersecurity breaches of this week:   1. Alt-Right Texas group's website leaked the resumes of applicants.   2. Ransomware gang REvil's servers come back online after a two-month hiatus   3. Howard University was affected by ransomware leading the school to cancel classes for a day.  4. Central Bank of Ireland mistakenly exposes personal information of 50 credit union executives   5. US Cybercom warns of mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerabilit

In this special episode of Bourbon and Breaches, the HackNotice team says goodbye to a cast member while welcoming a new one.    This episode features a beer instead of a bourbon considering it's our crew members' last time as a moderator, so we decided to have a special episode per his request.    Tune in as we discuss the 5 recent data breaches, from Discord Malwares to Texas' school ISD's.    As always, if you want us to cover a breach or a bourbon, leave a comment below and we'll get to it.

In our recent discussion in Bourbon and Data Breaches, we open a bottle of Rebel Yell Bourbon and talk about the most interesting cybersecurity stories affecting millions of people's data. Our topics of the week: Clop: Ransomware Gang or Softwre? Intuit, Turbotax user accounts compromised Pelotons are new frontier for hackers EA Games source code leaked over Slack trickery Ransomware gang REvil A/B tests headlines to see which grab more attention