And here's another reminder of the insider threat if you don't investigate your employees' or consultants' backgrounds and claimed credentials carefully enough. @briankrebs has the story and how a number of criminal cases may now be appealed or overturned:
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/cyber-forensic-expert-in-2000-cases-faces-fbi-probe/
Today's reminder of the insider threat involves a pharmacist in Maryland who over a period of 8 years or more, used keyloggers and installed spyware on about 400 computers at the University of Maryland Medical System so he could spy on female co-workers in private moments at work (such as changing clothes, breastfeeding their babies), and in their homes. He was reportedly fired in October 2024, and was able to get another job in another healthcare facility in Maryland because there has been no criminal charges filed against him yet and UMMS apparently didn't alert his new employer.
If Maryland law is like my state's laws, the hospital may be barred legally from revealing what happened if asked for a recommendation by the new employer. And it seems the Maryland state pharmacy board can't just suspend a license unless there's been a conviction, so the failure to have criminal charges filed already seems to have put more potential victims at risk.
Unsurprisingly, a potential class action lawsuit has already been filed against UMMS with six plaintiffs so far. There are estimates that there are more than 80 victims of the now-former employee.
Some of the media coverage on the case: https://thedailyrecord.com/2025/04/04/six-women-sue-umms-claiming-staffer-spied-on-them-after-security-breach/
North Korean IT workers set their sights on European organizations https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/02/north-korean-it-workers-target-europe/ #webapplication #webdevelopment #insiderthreat #blockchain #NorthKorea #Don'tmiss #datatheft #extortion #Hotstuff #News #CMS #EU #UK
Man found guilty of planting infinite loop logic bomb on ex-employer’s system – Source: www.bitdefender.com https://ciso2ciso.com/man-found-guilty-of-planting-infinite-loop-logic-bomb-on-ex-employers-system-source-www-bitdefender-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #CyberSecurityNews #grahamcluleycom #insiderthreat #Grahamcluley #Guestblog #Lawℴ #logicbomb #Malware
Man found guilty of planting infinite loop logic bomb on ex-employer’s system https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/man-found-guilty-of-planting-infinite-loop-logic-bomb-on-ex-employers-system #insiderthreat #Guestblog #Lawℴ #logicbomb #Malware
Man found guilty of planting infinite loop logic bomb on ex-employer’s system - Davis Lu had planted malicious Java code onto his employer's network that would cause "in... https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/man-found-guilty-of-planting-infinite-loop-logic-bomb-on-ex-employers-system #insiderthreat #guestblog #lawℴ #logicbomb #malware
Developer guilty of using kill switch to sabotage employer's systems
Developer Convicted for Hacking Former Employer’s Systems – Source: www.securityweek.com https://ciso2ciso.com/developer-convicted-for-hacking-former-employers-systems-source-www-securityweek-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #CyberSecurityNews #securityweekcom #insiderthreat #securityweek #Cybercrime #insider
Developer Convicted for Hacking Former Employer’s Systems https://www.securityweek.com/developer-convicted-for-hacking-former-employers-systems/ #InsiderThreat #Cybercrime #insider
Developer Convicted for Hacking Former Employer’s Systems https://www.securityweek.com/developer-convicted-for-hacking-former-employers-systems/ #InsiderThreat #Cybercrime #insider
Two Good Reads.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/two-good-reads
"Musk’s anger at federal regulators powered his dedication to the wilding spree...
the plain facts of what both pieces describe make clear that the best conceptual model for #DOGE is something between an #InsiderThreat action and a #terrorist operation. The emphasis on secrecy, misdirection and illegality is all there, the focus on seizing control of central nodes of #power & destroying things"
@hanse_mina The US has an enormous #InsiderThreat : it is Mango Mussolini, his hench(men/women), cowed/kompramatted #Republicans in #Congress and their US billionaire and #Kremlin handlers. It's a full-on national security threat.
@Meyerweb The US has an enormous #InsiderThreat : it is Mango Mussolini, his hench(men/women), cowed/kompramatted #Republicans in #Congress and their US billionaire and #Kremlin handlers. Full-on national security threat.
"Allies of Musk also began arriving at tech hubs in the federal government before Inauguration Day — the first hint of the scope of his incursion."
#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.t9r3.sBTAws_GSyV3&smid=url-share
I recommend reading the whole article. You can do so even without a subscription by using the above link.
Robert Evans: Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries. DNC employees and think tank workers are spreading a document about the Neoreactionary threat to democracy.
#coup #technofascism #InsiderThreat #authoritarianism #neoreactionary
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a
This petty suggestion is probably an indication that at least one Five Eyes partner has exhibited a rational response to Trump's election and stopped sharing sensitive intelligence. As they all should have last November. It's not like they don't know what a security threat Trump and his goons represent. I'm sure they're only sharing limited intelligence without risk of damage when it's funneled directly to Putin. I mean, of course they are. #intelligence #InsiderThreat #coup #natsec https://www.ft.com/content/2dfa3c11-64a7-49f6-83df-939b8d1cfb8e
Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To
#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/musk-doge-personal-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y04.9Xpj.G6bhZK21cNZh
#Musk is "exploiting vulnerabilities that are built into the nation’s technological systems, operating as what #cybersecurity experts call an #InsiderThreat...
Modern #digital systems supercharge that #threat by consolidating more & more #information from many distinct realms.
...reams of classified #data on a thumb drive."
#elonmusk has made it clear that he's an active, fast moving threat -- to the United States, to #democracy, to #truth and to #justice across the globe.
His supporters and employees are likewise a threat. Every worker at #SpaceX or #Tesla or any of his companies not looking to leave is an accomplice or actively sabotaging the fascist are threats as well. They should all be treated as an #insiderthreat . Maybe they can be reasoned with, but their continued support of Musk cannot be tolerated.
Codename: Krasnov
"Mussayev’s claims are by no means the only ones from former KGB officers.
In “American Kompromat,” a 2021 book by Craig Unger, former KGB officer Yuri Shvets claims that Trump had been recruited by Moscow in the 1980s.
“Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset… and proved so willing to parrot anti-Western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow,” Shvets told the Guardian in 2021.
Shvets was a KGB major during the 1980s with cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Soviet news agency TASS. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He worked as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006, according to the Guardian."
#treason #InsiderThreat #coup #corruption https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47630
The question I wish all Americans were educated & thoughtful enough to ask is: Among Trump's close influencers, who benefits from dismantling the brain trust and infrastructure of what has been for generations the foremost global superpower? This looks like chaos but is not. This is the execution phase of a long term strategic operation. #InsiderThreat #treason #coup #corruption https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/
