Breach

U.S. telecommunications companies Windstream, Consolidated Communications, and Charter Communications were reported by the Wall Street Journal to have also been compromised by Chinese state-backed threat group Salt Typhoon in a cyberespionage operation previously confirmed to have targeted nine telcos across the country.

Aside from deferring the delivery of breach notifications two months later, Visionworks also did not sufficiently defend its systems, resulting in the exfiltration of customers' names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, home and email addresses, financial details, and medical information, alleged the lawsuit.

Cybernews reports that MetLife was claimed to have been compromised by the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service operation, which alleged the theft of 1 TB of data from the major global insurance company's systems. The insurance company, however, denied that its systems were compromised, saying an Ecuador-based subsidiary was impacted by a "cyber incident."

While Google Groups and LinkedIn reports noted the campaign to have commenced in early December, such an attack may have been tested since March as evidenced by command-and-control subdomains discovered by BleepingComputer.

U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius has been apprehended and charged by federal authorities over suspicion of exposing stolen AT&T and Verizon customer call records as the threat actor "Kiberphant0m," KrebsOnSecurity reports.

TechRadar reports that major French multinational IT firm Atos has dismissed a purported Space Bears ransomware attack even as it acknowledged being subjected to a cyberattack.

Security Affairs reports that numerous Italian websites — including those of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Turin Transport Group, and the Linate and Malpensa airports — have been compromised as part of a distributed denial-of-service attack by pro-Russian hacktivist operation NoName057, which noted the intrusions to have been launched in retaliation of "Italian Russophobes."