Tag: espionage
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Australian Companies to Face Fines of $50 Million for Data Breaches
Companies that fail to adequately protect people’s data could face fines of $50 million or more under new legislation to be introduced next week. After Optus and Medibank reported significant breaches of customer data, including sensitive health information, the Albanese government was now moving to increase penalties for serious or repeated breaches of customer data. The attorney general, who has… Read more
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Dutch Police Trick Ransomware Operators To Get Decryption Keys Free
Dutch police and other law enforcement agencies have managed to trick the DeadBolt ransomware operators into releasing 150 decryption keys for free. The method of obtaining decryption keys was found by a Dutch incident response company called Responders.NU, who shared the method with the police. The basis for the trick iss that it was possible to cancel an unconfirmed Bitcoin… Read more
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Australia’s Medibank Suffers Serious Data Breach
A hacker stole 200GB of confidential customer information from one of Australia’s largest health insurers as experts warn the breach is ‘very serious’. Medibank said it would work closely with the Australian Federal Police as it investigates the cyber-attack after the hackers responsible gained access to extremely sensitive information – including customer’s doctors’ visits. In… Read more
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Verizon Announces A User Data Breach
Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. “We determined that between October 6 and October 10, 2022, a third-party actor accessed the last four digits of the credit card used to make automatic payments on your account,” Verizon… Read more
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FBI Warns Dems and GOP of Chinese Hacking Prior To Midterm Elections
Chinese government hackers are scanning U.S. political party domains ahead of next month’s midterm elections, looking for vulnerable systems as a potential precursor to hacking operations, and the FBI is making a big push to alert potential victims to batten down the hatches. Over the past week, FBI agents in field offices across the country have… Read more
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2K Games Warns Users Their Stolen Data Is For Sale Online
Video game publisher 2K emailed users to warn that some of their personal info was stolen and put up for sale online following a September 19 security breach. 2K confirmed that its help desk platform was hacked and used by the attackers to target customers using fake support tickets that pushed Redline Stealer malware via embedded links. The… Read more
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Crypto Platform Mango Markets Drained of More than $100 Million in Flash Loan Attack
Mango Markets, a cryptocurrency trading platform, was robbed of more than $100 million on Tuesday night after a hacker used a flash loan attack to exploit the platform. Flash loan attacks involve hackers borrowing funds that do not require collateral, buying a significant amount of a cryptocurrency to artificially raise its price and then offloading… Read more
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Lloyd’s of London Investigates Cybersecurity “Incident”
Lloyd’s of London is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has forced it to disconnect some systems. The company says it has detected unusual activity and decided to ‘reset’ its network and systems as a precaution. It shut down all external connectivity, including its delegated authority platforms, in response to the incident. Last week, the company… Read more
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Toyota Discloses Customer Data Exposure
Toyota has disclosed a security incident that involved source code hosted on GitHub and which may have resulted in unauthorized access to roughly 300,000 customer email addresses. The incident, the company says, impacts customers who have subscribed to the T-Connect website, a service and mobile application that provides users with car management features such as… Read more
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Ferrari Suffers a Cyber Attack
The Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari confirmed the availability of internal documents online, but said it has no evidence of cyber-attack. Documents belonging to the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari are circulating online, the company confirmed their authenticity stating it is not aware of cyber-attacks. Ferrari is investigating the leak of the internal documents… Read more