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Nearly 1.5 million affected by data breach at Alberta Dental Service Corporation

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Dissent

CBC reports: A significant data breach has compromised the personal information of about 1.47 million Albertans, the Alberta Dental Service Corporation said Thursday. In a statement, ADSC said certain data from public dental benefits programs it administers for the provincial government was implicated in a recent cybersecurity breach. ADSC learned it was the victim of…

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CT: New Haven Board of Education victim of $6 million cyber theft

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Dissent

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

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Dissent

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…

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He’s smart, he’s an accomplished liar, and now Impotent says he’s retired.

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Dissent

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…

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Nova Scotia government still unsure of widespread impact from spring cyberattack

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Dissent

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…

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Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Dissent

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…

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