Weekly Infosec News Brief May 25-31

Insurance Company Sues Healthcare Provider over Cyber-Insurance Payout

Cottage Health System, a California-based healthcare network, settled a class action suit last December stemming from a 2013 breach. Their insurer, Columbia Casualty, initially agreed to pay for the $4.1M settlement, but has now filed their own suit to avoid paying. Columbia alleges that Cottage failed to implement the minimum security measures required under their policy. Does your organization have a cyber insurance policy? Do you know what security controls you are required to implement and maintain in order to comply with the policy?
http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/cyberpolicy-excludes-coverage-4-million-data-breach-insurer-says/
http://healthitsecurity.com/news/what-happens-when-a-healthcare-cyber-policy-is-broken


"Grabit" Malware Campaign Targeted at Small and Medium Businesses

Kaspersky published details last week on a a new malware campaign they have discovered and named "Grabit." One unusual fact about this activity is that it appears to be targeted exclusively at small and medium businesses. This activity is predominate in India and Thailand, but about 10% of the infections were in the US. The malware is initially delivered via a Word attachment with a malicious macro; the macro causes the machine to download and execute the larger piece of malicious software. The malicious software includes a keylogger that gathers passwords for Outlook, Facebook, Skype, Gmail, banking, and other accounts.
https://securelist.com/blog/research/70087/grabit-and-the-rats/
http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/small-to-mid-sized-organizations-targeted-by-grabit-cyberspies/d/d-id/1320613


Vulnerability in Home and SOHO Routers Being Used to Tamper with Their DNS Settings

An exploit kit has been observed running on a large scale using a number of vulnerabilities in home and small business type firewall/routers (the type generally provided by ISPs). The exploit changes the DNS server settings on the router, which generally determines how all the computers on the network look up website addresses. This can allow attackers to then redirect web traffic at will.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2925580/cybercrime-hacking/large-scale-attack-uses-browsers-to-hijack-routers.html

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