SAN FRANCISCO – Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, a graduate student in computer science, has been indicted for transmitting a program, information, code, or command causing damage to a protected computer announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The indictment, filed December 1, 2016,…
Month: December 2016
AR: Carroll County pays ransomware demand
Adam Roberts reports: The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office paid the equivalent of $2,400 in ransom money to hackers, the county announced at a press conference Monday afternoon. […] The files in question were all decrypted after the ransom was paid, the sheriff’s office said. Read more on 40/29 TV.
UK: Operation Vulcanalia targets users of netspoof website attack tool
From an NCA press release today: Twelve people have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency operation targeting customers of website crippling software which can cost as little as £4. Netspoof stresser was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) programme that disabled web servers and websites by flooding them with massive amounts of…
The man hacking India’s rich and powerful talks motives, music, drugs and next targets
Max Bearak reports: Somewhere in India, a young man is sitting in a room, parked in front of his computer, smoking copious amounts of marijuana and causing great embarrassment to some of the country’s biggest movers and shakers. He and a group of others — who he claims number in the “higher single digits” and are based around…
HK: Dozens of bank staff arrested over bribery-linked data leak
Esther Yu reports: Nearly 30 people have been arrested over allegations of bribery in order to obtain confidential customer information for loan business sales purposes, the Independent Commission Against Corruption said. Among the 29 people held after the graftbusters launched operation “Mirabilis” were three managers and 18 serving and former direct sales representatives of a…
Quest Diagnostics notifying 34,000 patients after hacker acquired PHI
Quest Diagnostics is notifying approximately 34,000 patients after their MyQuest patient was hacked and PHI was accessed and obtained. Quest reports that they became aware of the breach on November 28, and that the patient data included name, date of birth, lab results, and, in some instances, telephone numbers. The affected information did not include Social Security numbers, credit…