Last week motherboard reported that hackers had claimed to breach a family owned and operated company, Gorilla Glue and that they had obtained over 500GB of documents. Today those hackers, thedarkoverlord tweeted “A widely held belief is that gorillas are unintelligent. We’re starting to think that they may be right.” which was accompanied by a…
Month: November 2016
Welsh Payday Loans Boss Hired Hackers to DDoS Competitors, Critics
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Cardiff court has sentenced James Frazer-Mann, a 35-year-old man from Barry, the UK to a suspended sentence of 12 months, a fine of £530 ($660), and 180 hours of community service for hiring a hacker to go after his company’s competition and a website where customers had criticized his service. US…
Trial begins of intelligence services data theft
SwissInfo.ch reports: An IT specialist has appeared before the Federal Criminal Court for trying to sell data he allegedly stole from the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), thereby endangering Swiss security domestically and abroad as well as FIS employees, their partners and sources. He has been accused of attempted violation of official secrecy and political intelligence….
Deliveroo customers have been hit by account breaches and rogue food orders
Deliveroo customers have suffered account breaches and been charged for food and drink they did not order, an investigation by BBC One’s Watchdog has found. […]Users can save payment information to the app, which despite not being fully visible when ordering, only needs to be tapped on to confirm it as a payment method….
Hospital-targeting Locky ransomware ups attack methods
Jessica Davis reports: In February, Locky was found in the wild, wreaking havoc on networks. And despite the drop in the frequency of ransomware attacks in recent months and increase of decryption tools for strains like Crysis, Locky is upping the ante on its attack method. The latest ransomware downloader uses the AESIR-file extension. It…
Madison Square Garden Company Alerts Customers of Payment Card Data Breach
A major breach was just discovered last month, it seems. Here’s MSG’s full notice from their web site, today: The Madison Square Garden Company Notifies Customers of Payment Card Incident November 22, 2016 California residents please click here The Madison Square Garden Company (“MSG”) understands the importance of protecting payment card data. After MSG was notified…