Catalin Cimpanu reports: A 21-year-old from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty today to creating and operating multiple iterations of DDoS botnets made up of home routers and other networking and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Kenneth Currin Schuchman, known online as Nexus Zeta, rented access to these botnets to others, but he also used the botnets…
Month: September 2019
NY School Delays Start of Year After Ransomware Attack
From NBC New York, this report on the Monroe-Woodbury School District’s decision: The Orange County school district delayed the first day of the school year until Thursday as they deal with a ransomware attack. It is not clear if the hackers demanded money, as other tri-state school districts have dealt with. Some more details in…
15 Chinese Arrested for Bribing Internet Café Administrators to Mine Crypto
Vincent He reports: Police in Henyang, a city of south-central China’s Hunan Province, has arrested fifteen men suspected of stealing electricity from Internet café to mine cryptocurrencies, according to a report by local media. During the past four months from June 2017 to July 2019, the cryptocurrencies they stole had been sold amounting to over hundred million yuan…
AU: Breach notification rules for new government data scheme, but no consent for sharing
Rohan Pearce reports: New legislation that will enable data collected by public sector agencies to be more easily shared is expected to be accompanied by new rules for data breach notifications, a discussion paper released today by the government said. The government in May 2018 said it would introduce a new data sharing and release…
Teletext Data Breach Exposes Over 200,000 Customer Phone Call Recordings
Conor Reynolds reports: Package Holiday firm Truly Travels exposed over 200,000 customer phone call recordings and data files on a publicly accessible server. Over 530,000 data files were discovered in an unsecured Amazon Web Services server. Of these files 212,000 were audio files that held recordings of Teletext customers who had contacted the firms India-based…
Temple University Health System back online after cyber attack
KYW reports: A Philadelphia hospital is getting back online after falling victim to a cyber attack. Temple University Health System’s computer system was hacked last week, according to officials. They say the cyber attack compromised numerous operations from email to scheduling. Read more on KYW.