Walter Strong reports: The Northwest Territories Power Corporation’s (NTPC) website went down Thursday afternoon, but some pages show what appears to be a ransomware message from unknown hackers. Some visitors to the website myntpc.ntpc.com were greeted with a text page that begins with: “Hi! Your files are encrypted by Netwalker.” Read more on CBC.ca
Month: April 2020
Alabama Dept. of Labor fixes app after personal information revealed
WPMI reports that an app developed to help Alabamians apply for unemployment benefits and check on their status was exposing personal information: Our sister station WBMA in Birmingham did some digging and found out that new app exposed the personal information of unemployment applicants to others. Rhonda Jones says when she tried to view her daughter’s documents…
Personal data of thousands of “Figaro” readers exposed on a server
The following is a Google translation of a story in Le Monde by Damien Leloupe: A large volume of data, including personal data of subscribers and subscribers to the Figaro site , remained accessible for several months online without protection, reveals a report by the computer security company Safety Detective , published Thursday, April 30. The Safety Detective team discovered…
Zoom Gets Stuffed: Here’s How Hackers Got Hold Of 500,000 Passwords
Davey Winder reports: At the start of April, the news broke that 500,000 stolen Zoom passwords were up for sale. Here’s how the hackers got hold of them. More than half a million Zoom account credentials, usernames and passwords were made available in dark web crime forums earlier this month. Some were given away for…
Report Finds Ransomware Crews Don’t Leave After Being Paid
Organized crews of cybercriminals that attacked health care organizations and other critical services with ransomware this month kept their access to victims’ networks even after ransoms were paid, new research released by Microsoft Corp. says. In a blog post published Tuesday, Microsoft’s Threat Protection Intelligence Team said it had identified “dozens” of ransomware attacks in the…
UK: Nine million logs of Brits’ road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard
Gareth Corfield reports: In a blunder described as “astonishing and worrying,” Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal. Read more on The Register.