Benjamin Hernandez reports: A Mississippi law firm is suing its cyber insurer, alleging the carrier wrongfully denied coverage for a roughly $150,000 loss stemming from an “elaborate” email scheme. Gore, Kilpatrick & Dambrino PLLC was duped into wiring funds to an account controlled by scammers posing as representatives from a company that was dissolved years…
Ukrainian Hackers Wipe 47TB of Data from Top Russian Military Drone Supplier
Kateryna Zakharchenko reports: Cyber specialists from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR), with support from the “Ukrainian Cyber Alliance” and the hacker group “BO Team,” have carried out a cyberattack on the network and server infrastructure of “Haskar Integration” – one of the largest drone suppliers to the Russian armed forces, HUR sources told Kyiv Post…
Computer Whiz Gets Suspended Sentence over 2019 Revenue Agency Data Breach
Dimitar Abrashev reports: A computer specialist accused of leaking personal data from Bulgaria’s revenue administration has received a suspended nine-month sentence with three years’ probation, under a plea deal approved by the Sofia City Court. The case stems from a massive cyber breach in 2019 that exposed the personal details of millions of Bulgarians. Kristian…
Ministry of Defence data breach timeline
Some human errors are more dangerous than others. PA News reports: A data breach which may have put up to 100,000 people at risk of death or serious harm from the Taliban can now be reported more than three years after it took place. Here the PA news agency looks at the timeline of events…
Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years
Matthew Gault reports: Many trains in the U.S. are vulnerable to a hack that can remotely lock a train’s brakes, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the researcher who discovered the vulnerability. The railroad industry has known about the vulnerability for more than a decade but only recently began to fix it….
Ransomware in Italy, strike at the Diskstation gang: hacker group leader arrested in Milan
Redazione reports: A 44-year-old man, a Romanian citizen, was arrested in Milan on charges of being the main director behind a series of cyber attacks orchestrated by the ‘Diskstation’ gang. This is a criminal organisation specialised in ransomware, active mainly against companies, professionals and technical studies. The arrest, carried out by the Italian Postal Police, is the…