Press Trust of India reports: Hitachi Payments Services on Thursday accepted its systems were compromised by a sophisticated malware in mid-2016, that led to one of the biggest cyber security breaches in the country with 3.2 million cards affected and a scare over security of card-based transactions. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had…
Month: February 2017
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals possibly hacked: Govt
Joseph Yeh reports: They claimed that no nationals had yet reported that they were victimised due to the hack. Speaking at an emergency press event, Winston Chung, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA), apologised to the public at an emergency press conference, saying that the possible leak was…
If you’ve been meaning to remind your employees not to fall for the W-2 phishing scam….
If you’ve been meaning to remind your employees not to fall for the W-2 phishing scam, but just haven’t managed to get around to it yet, consider this report yesterday from Wapack Labs about what they’re seeing in marketplaces on the darkweb: Wapack Labs has identified an actor in the Tor-based markets – we have labeled…
While investigating W-2 phishing scam, company discovers they were scammed last year, too (Updated)
The 2017 W-2 Phishing Victims List continues to grow, and I’m not posting most of them as individual reports, but one news story involving Monarch Beverage Company in Indianapolis deserves special mention because as CBS reports: While investigating this incident, the company discovered the same thing happened in April 2016. A scammer posing as the…
Good guy Logic Supply resolves breach in days, unlike some companies
John Leyden reports: US-based industrial computer supplier Logic Supply has reset user passwords following a suspected security breach. Unauthorised access through the firm’s website on 6 February may have exposed customer/company names, usernames and passwords, and order information. Payment card details were not exposed, Logic Supply reassured customers in a breach notification email (extract below) forwarded to El…
Russia Arrests Nine More Involved with the Lurk Malware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Russian authorities arrested nine hackers they suspect of being involved in the distribution of the Lurk malware. This is the second wave of arrests after authorities apprehended 50 suspects in May 2016. The second arrests were reported today by Russian Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Volk. Volk said Russian police arrested nine new…