A month after their $1M settlement with New York, First American Title suffers a crippling cybersecurity attack

The Title insurance giant just completed a $1 million settlement with DFS of New York over a 2019 cybersecurity breach affecting customer data.

First American Title is providing updates here: https://www.firstamupdate.com/

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https://therecord.media/first-american-title-insurance-cyberattack-real-state-industry

First American is the latest cybersecurity attack victim

60 Credit Unions affected by ransomware in likely supply chain attack

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/02/ransomware_infection_credit_unions/

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The city of Long Beach California suffers a cybersecurity event and shuts down IT systems to contain.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/long-beach-california-turns-off-it-systems-after-cyberattack/

Vulnerability in cPanel leaves widespread exposure

https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/alerts/widespread-exposure-vulnerability-cPanel

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/cpanel-tsr-2023-0001-full-disclosure.708949/

If you haven’t patched GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) do it right now (Though it might be too late).

https://www.securityweek.com/goanywhere-zero-day-attack-hits-major-orgs/

Having problems with your satellite Dish service? Ransomware at Dish Networks may be the problem as customer service offerings and billing functions are affected. Customer data may have been leaked.

https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/ransomware/dish-customers-struggle-with-service-disruptions-weeks-after-ransomware-attack

The City of Oakland, California, suffers a ransomware attack and declares State of Emergency. 911/Emergency services unaffected.

https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/oakland-state-of-emergency-ransomware

CISA released a script to recover VMWare ESXi servers impacted by ESXiArgs ransomware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-releases-recovery-script-for-esxiargs-ransomware-victims/

The recover script
https://github.com/cisagov/ESXiArgs-Recover/blob/main/recover.sh

CISA: Vulnerabilities in Veeam Backup and Replication are being exploited

https://thehackernews.com/2022/12/cisa-alert-veeam-backup-and-replication.html

Los Angeles School District suffers breach and hackers released 500 GB of data

https://www.idstrong.com/sentinel/lausd-data-breach/