Catalin Cimpanu reports: Belarusian authorities have seized the servers of a notorious hacking forum that served as a meeting place for malware authors, hackers, spammers, botnet operators, and other cyber-criminals, the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a press release. Named XakFor, the forum launched in 2012 and targeted the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. It…
Month: September 2019
DK-Lok data breach exposes global enterprise client data, internal emails
Charlie Osborne reports: Perhaps, one day, the continual stream of data leaks and cybersecurity breaches stemming from open databases will make organizations sit up, take notice, check their IT infrastructure, and resolve any security problems they find. Today is not that day it seems for DK-Lok, the latest entry in a long list of companies…
Former Student Convicted In Dark Web Threats Targeting Rohnert Park School
CBS reports: A former Rancho Cotate High School student has been convicted in a plot involving a dark web criminal who was paid to email threats targeting the school and its students, authorities said Tuesday.Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officials did not name the student because he was a minor at the time of…
Update on Pearson Breach: Parent Files Class-Action Suit After Data Breach Exposes Nearly 1 Million Schoolchildren’s Personal Information
CBS reports: A mother filed a federal class-action lawsuit on her daughter’s behalf Thursday, after nearly a million students nationwide had their personal information exposed in a data breach by a company used to track student academic progress. The Indian Prairie School District 204 in Naperville was among the academic districts affected. The woman, identified…
Two men accused of harassing NJ police officers by posting hacked personal info online
Joshua Jongsma reports: Two New York men hacked the personal information of 50 North Jersey public employees, mostly police officers, and posted much of it online, authorities said. Evan Koulikov, 21, of Spring Valley, New York also made harassing phone calls to many of the victims, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Eric Williams,…
TH: Young hackers accused of stealing, selling food discount codes
The Bangkok Post reports: Two student hackers allegedly stole online discount codes for restaurant food and sold them to friends – costing the restaurants an estimated million baht in unauthorised discounts on deliveries. University students Jirapat Yuenying, 20, and Supawat Weeraburut, 21, were arrested at their house in Muang district of Khon Kaen on Monday,…