DHNet reports (translation): Last weekend, the city of Seraing reported that its services were temporarily inaccessible to the public and for a reason beyond its control. Indeed, since the computer network of the city of Seraing was the victim of a malicious attack! A complaint has been filed. As specified to the city of Seraing,…
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The Trigano company victim of a cyberattack, the Tournon-sur-Rhône plant shut down
François Breton reports (translation): The manufacturer of caravans, motorhomes, camping furniture and mobile homes was the victim of a cyberattack on Tuesday February 9. It prevents access to computers. The factory based in Tournon-sur-Rhône (Ardèche) is therefore at a standstill this Friday, February 12. Read more on Franceblue.fr. Although the company acknowledged that this was…
New Russian Crypto Law – A Government Tool to Take Control Over the DarkWeb Market?
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…
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…