Anastasia Sentsova and Yelisey Boguslavskiy write: On January 1, 2021, the Russian authorities introduced a new law regulating cryptocurrencies. This law may be a manifestation of the Russian government’s desire to seek control over the DarkWeb markets and its ransomware sector that became extremely prolific over the past two years. The criminal business that runs…
Month: February 2021
Database Seller Strikes Again: Personal Data of 10 Million Malaysian Voters Could Be On The Line
Chief Chapree reports: Following the databases that were said to contain information about E-Pay Malaysia and Ifmal customers, there is a new listing that claimed to have 10 million Malaysian voters in its database. The listing took place last weekend on the same marketplace forum that featured the two previous databases. First reported by OMG Hackers, it was put…
Free decrypter released for Avaddon ransomware victims… aaand, it’s gone!
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Spanish student released a free decryption utility that can help victims of the Avaddon ransomware recover their files for free. Published on GitHub by Javier Yuste, a student at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, the AvaddonDecrypter works only in cases where victims have not powered off their computers. Unfortunately, the threat…
Brazilian authorities start probe as 102 million consumers are exposed in new leak
Angelica Mari reports that Brazil’s data protection authority is opening an investigation into reports of a data security incident impacting 102 million mobile numbers, allegedly from two mobile operators — Vivo and Claro. The companies deny, however, that the data that are up for sale on the dark web are from them. This is the…
ECU Worldwide chief confirms IT systems are down after ‘cyber incident’
Alex Lennane reports: The chief executive of ECU Worldwide has confirmed the company’s systems have been affected by a “cyber incident”. In a note to customers, Tim Tudor wrote: “Our online systems have been temporarily unavailable due to a cyber incident. “As a precautionary measure we have taken our systems offline. This includes emails. “Our…
Bannock County, Idaho – Notice of Data Security Event
February 11, 2021 – Bannock County, Idaho (“Bannock County”) is providing notice of a data privacy event related to certain individuals associated with Bannock County. Bannock County takes this event seriously and is providing information about the event and steps individuals may take to help protect impacted individuals’ personal information, should they feel it is…