When COVID-19 travel restrictions eased as countries tried to re-open borders to travelers, researchers at Gemini Advisory observed that the sale of travel services — both legal and illegal — started to increase, opening up more opportunities for cybercriminals to monetize stolen payment card data. For those not really knowledgeable about travel services fraud, Gemini…
Month: October 2020
Enel Group, cyber attack: NetWalker is ready to publish the first data
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe writes: The NetWalker Ransomware Group gives the Enel Group seven days to pay the ransom and get back 4.54 TB of data stolen during the cyber attack last June. In a note released in the hours following the June 7 cyber attack, the multinational said it had managed to…
How Swedish authorities’ confidential information was leaked in hacker attack
AFP and The Local report: Security arrangements for the Swedish parliament, alarm systems and details of bank vault floor plans have been shared online in a data leak that saw around 38,000 files stolen by hackers. A total of 19 gigabytes of information and around 38,000 files were stolen from security group Gunnebo by one…
Massive Nitro data breach impacts Microsoft, Google, Apple, more
Lawrence Abrams reports: A massive data breach suffered by the Nitro PDF service impacts many well-known organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Chase, and Citibank. Claimed to be used by over 10 thousand business customers and 1.8 million licensed users, Nitro is an application used to create, edit, and sign PDFs and digital documents. As part…
Data breaches upping ATO fraud ‘red flags’
Asha Barbaschow reports: The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has a “red flag” feature, which serves up a “ping” whenever an individual or business has been suspected of having fraudulent activity conducted against their name or if their account has been compromised. Facing Senate Estimates on Tuesday, ATO client engagement second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn explained that…
Junior doctor who accessed patient records improperly and failed to engage with regulator is struck off
From an article in BMJ: A junior doctor who improperly accessed the medical records of three hospital patients without a legitimate reason and who then lied about it to a trust investigation has been struck off the UK medical register after failing to engage with the regulatory process. Neha Muralidharan was suspended for 10 months…