Tatsuya Sudo reports: Hackers breached Booking.com, one of the world’s largest online accommodation reservation sites, by posing as hotel staff to steal credit card information from travelers making bookings. Phishing scams like this have plagued Japan since May. The headquarters of Booking.com in the Netherlands conceded the damage is occurring on a global scale. Read more about this current…
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Australia locks down ports after ‘nationally significant’ cyberattack
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports: Australia says it is responding to an ongoing cyberattack targeting major ports, prompting operator DP World to temporarily restrict access to the network on Saturday. The operator shut down four ports at Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Fremantle after detecting a cybersecurity incident late on Friday night. DP World is responsible for 40 per cent of Australia’s maritime…
Time’s up: SingularityMD sets up to sell data from Jeffco Public Schools
It looks like “SingularityMD,” the hacker(s) of Clark County School District in Nevada and Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado, are looking to start selling the data they exfiltrated. In an introductory post today on Breach Forums, they write: We are SingularityMD. We specialize in low sophistication corporate network infiltration. We are behind the following hacks…
Butte School District shuts down computer network after system compromised
John Emeigh reports: The Butte School District was forced to shut down its computer system this week to investigate an unknown breach of the network that serves all the public schools in the city. “All I can say is that we’re still investigating the issue and we do not have any clear information of what…
McLaren Health Care notifying 2.2 million patients about the BlackCat attack in August
On September 30, AlphV threat actors (aka BlackCat) added McLaren Health Care to their dark web leak site. They updated their listing on October 4, claiming to have data on 2.5 million people. That same week, McLaren confirmed that they had been the victim of a ransomware attack it first detected on August 22. Michigan’s…
Optus loses court bid to keep report into cause of cyber-attack secret
Josh Taylor reports a win for transparency: Optus has lost a bid in the federal court to keep secret a report on the cause of the 2022 cyber-attack – which resulted in the personal information of about 10 million customers being exposed – after a judge rejected the telco’s legal privilege claim. After the hack, the company announced…