Argentinian agribusiness Aceitera General Deheza (AGD) was attacked on August 10. According to a statement the business made, the attackers asked for money to recover the data. The company issued the following statement to Region Del Mani: “Our company has detected an intrusion in its computer systems. It is for this reason that security protocols…
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Chile: Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo spared from financial losses in BEC attack by alert bank
ENAP (Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo), is a Chilean state-owned company engaged in the exploitation, production, refining, and marketing of oil and its derivatives. It reports administratively to the Ministry of Energy. As Nicolas Parra Tapia and Felipe Diaz Montero recently reported, well-known Nigerian cybercriminals had targeted ENAP in a wire transfer scheme. It was only…
Pl: Hackers have attacked a company that provides remote reading of water meters
Wojciech Karpieszuk reports that the Marymont Potok cooperative announced the attack on Thursday. Machine translation: We don’t know what this entails, whether the data is safe, or whether the readings will be falsified,” says Mr. Janusz from Marymont. A customer notes that the switch to remote reading was supposed to prevent fraud, but if hackers…
Foreign National Faces Federal Charges for Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Aggravated Identity Theft Related to a Business Email Compromise Scheme
Victims of the Scheme were in at least Five States including California, Tennessee, Michigan, Hawaii, and Illinois Greenbelt, Maryland – Njuh Valentine Fombe, a/k/a “Valentine”, age 36, formerly of Beltsville, Maryland, had an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on August 8, 2022, after being a fugitive for almost three years until his…
Personal details of Peruvian Congress and parliamentarians leaked on internet, used for phishing attempts
Diario Correo reports: In recent days, many workers of the Congress of the Republic and parliamentarians have received suspicious messages on their cell phones so that unscrupulous people can access their cell phones. This fact would be due to the leak of personal data advisers, pensioners and even of the legislators themselves, as Correo was…
Argentina’s Judiciary of Córdoba suffered a serious computer attack
A CBN24n editorial begins: The Judiciary of Córdoba suffered a computer attack that affected its website, digital services and databases. Sources close to the Judiciary affirmed that it could be “the worst attack on public institutions in history.” Through an official statement, disseminated on its social networks, the Judiciary of Córdoba clarified that “specialized personnel are…