Lydia Lam reports: A team leader at a call centre in Malaysia handling technical support for Singtel customers helped an ex-colleague retrieve information from more than 1,000 business accounts belonging to licensed moneylenders. The information, which included bills, company names and landline numbers, was later used by data sellers to carry out loan sharking activities….
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Swiss Hacker indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft
Seattle – A prolific Swiss computer hacker, TILL KOTTMANN, 21, was indicted today by a grand jury in the Western District of Washington for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities spanning 2019 to the present. KOTTMANN, aka “deletescape” and “tillie crimew,” who initially was charged in September 2020, remains in Lucerne, Switzerland, and…
CA: Data breach reported at Atascadero State Hospital
Paso Robles Daily News reports: –The California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) today announced that a DSH employee with access to Atascadero State Hospital data servers as part of their information technology (IT) job duties improperly accessed approximately 1,415 patient and former patient, and 617 employee names, COVID-19 test results, and health information necessary for tracking COVID-19. The breach…
UK: Journalists’ personal and bank details made public after publisher data breach
David Sharman reports: Journalists’ personal information and bank details have been made public after a data breach at an independent publisher. The Midlands News Association has confirmed the “data security incident”, which led to the names, addresses, bank account details, National Insurance numbers and dates of birth of a number of former employees being published online. The…
CISA-FBI Joint Advisory on TrickBot Malware
CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on TrickBot malware. A sophisticated group of cyber criminals are using phishing emails claiming to contain proof of traffic violations to lure victims into downloading TrickBot. TrickBot is a highly modular, multi-stage malware that provides its operators a full suite of…
Finland pins Parliament hack on Chinese hacking group APT31
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Finnish officials formally blamed today a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as APT31 for a cyber-attack that breached the Finnish Parliament’s internal IT systems last year. The attack, which took place in the fall of 2020, also resulted in attackers gaining access to the email accounts of some members of Parliament,…