YLE reports: The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has fallen victim to cyber extortion, Finnish news agency STT reports on Sunday. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the largest members of the LWF, a global Lutheran organisation. Earlier this month perpetrators carried out ransomware attacks on the federation and released screenshots of the captured…
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Fred Hutch failed to reveal threats of potential swatting attacks until this site revealed the threat. Should they have disclosed it themselves?
On December 28, DataBreaches published snippets from a chat with a threat actor (TA) who claimed to have involvement with both the Fred Hutch cyberattack and the Integris cyberattack. In the course of that exchange, the TA surprised DataBreaches by claiming that they had threatened Fred Hutch with swatting patients. From DataBreaches’ previous reporting: “So…
Labor hit by major government data breach, millions of files stolen from key departments
Dylan Caporn reports: Labor has admitted it suffered Australia’s largest-ever government data breach, with key intelligence, defence and economic departments falling victim after millions of files were stolen from Australia’s largest commercial law firm. After months of questioning, officials finally revealed late last year that 62 government departments including Australia Post, the Departments of Prime…
‘Asia’s best hacker’ caught
Nillicent Bautista reports: A man previously dubbed “Asia’s best hacker” was arrested in Las Piñas for allegedly targeting foreigners in his illegal online activities, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said yesterday. An NCRPO report obtained by The STAR showed that NCRPO operatives searched the house of Edgar Silvano Jr., 47, in Barangay Talon Dos at…
Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto
Bill Toulas reports: A 29-year-old man in Ukraine was arrested this week for using hacked accounts to create 1 million virtual servers used to mine $2 million in cryptocurrency. As announced today by Europol, the suspect is believed to be the mastermind behind a large-scale cryptojacking scheme that involves hijacking cloud computing resources for crypto-mining. By…
NYS announces $8 Million Penalty Against Genesis Global Trading, Inc. After DFS Investigation Finds Significant Failings in Anti-Money Laundering and Cybersecurity Programs
January 12, 2024 New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris today announced that Genesis Global Trading, Inc. (“Genesis Global Trading”) will pay an $8 million penalty to New York State for compliance failures that violated DFS’s virtual currency and cybersecurity regulations and left the company vulnerable to illicit activity and…