Doug Stewart reports: The city of New Haven suffered a $6 million theft in a cyber attack earlier this year it was announced Thursday. To date, law enforcement officials have recovered over half the money. Officials said the cyber attack targeted the Board of Education’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer in what was described…
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Notorious phishing platform shut down, arrests in international police operation
From Interpol, this week: SINGAPORE – A notorious ‘phishing-as-a-service’ (PaaS) platform known as ‘16shop’ has been shut down in a global investigation coordinated by INTERPOL, with Indonesian authorities arresting its operator and one of its facilitators, with another arrested in Japan. The three arrests, which concluded with actions against a suspect last month, was made…
He’s smart, he’s an accomplished liar, and now Impotent says he’s retired.
Sometimes people surprise me. “Impotent” did. He’s gone by a number of usernames online over the past few years. “Everyone knows me under many different aliases. Let’s actually call me mainly Pulpo. I also used ‘Creeper, ‘Impotent,’ ‘Kmeta,’ ‘KmetaNaEvropa,’ and ‘Promise,’ but on my markets, I was usually just ‘Admin.’ The main identities I love…
Nova Scotia government still unsure of widespread impact from spring cyberattack
Jonathan MacInnis reports: The province of Nova Scotia is still unsure of how widespread the MOVEit security breach is, nearly two-and-a-half months after first becoming aware of the issue. Almost 1000 notifications have been sent out this month. “As you start getting into forensics you can find out that that trail can lead back a…
Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’
Brian Krebs writes: WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by the likes of ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding restrictions of its own on how the service can be used. Faced with customers trying to…
Russia ‘prime suspect’ in cyber attack which saw names and addresses of 40M UK voters exposed – reports
Imogen Howse reports: Russia is suspected to have been behind a cyber attack which exposed the data of tens of millions of voters in the UK, raising fears it was an attempt to undermine democracy. The Electoral Commission admitted on Tuesday (8 August) that hackers had been able to access reference copies of electoral registers from between the years…