The City of Columbus, Ohio, confirmed that 500,000 residents were affected by a July 18 ransomware attack by the Rhysida gang. The city also dropped its lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross Jr., who had allegedly downloaded city data from the dark web and threatened to share it, claiming that it was the right thing to do as Ross was simply exposing misrepresentations. The city remained unaware of any misuse of the stolen personal information.
Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
GruesomeLarch, an advanced persistent threat group, compromised several account passwords on a web service platform using credential-stuffing attacks. However, two-factor authentication prevented actual account breaches.
