Brian Krebs reports: A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked…
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MA: Lawrence Family Development Charter School allegedly attacked by Snatch Team
Threat actors known as Snatch Team added the Lawrence Family Development Charter School in Massachusetts to their leak site yesterday. No proof has been provided by the attackers at this point. Two attempts to contact LFCDS administrators through their website contact forms for messages to faculty and staff both failed with messages “{“statusText”:”*** Forbidden. You…
Ransomware cyberattack continues at Bluefield University
Updated May 3: Avos Locker subsequently added the university to its leak site with a message: “1.2 TB data from a college with cyber insurance policy that doesn’t care about protecting students. Management is a circus attempting to identify breach (good luck) and lying to students and media about the severity. We’ll continue attacking for…
Merck entitled to $1.4B in cyberattack case after appeals court rejects insurers’ ‘warlike action’ claim
Angus Liu reports: Merck may finally be entitled to a hefty insurance payout from the high-profile NotPetya cyberattack—if an appeals court ruling stands. A New Jersey appellate court on Monday ruled that a group of insurers can’t use war as an argument to deny Merck coverage from the notorious cyberattack that afflicted the company and others…
288 dark web vendors arrested in major marketplace seizure
Fromm Europol’s press release: In an operation coordinated by Europol and involving nine countries, law enforcement have seized the illegal dark web marketplace “Monopoly Market” and arrested 288 suspects involved in buying or selling drugs on the dark web. More than EUR 50.8 million (USD 53.4 million) in cash and virtual currencies, 850 kg of…
Wichita State University restoring systems after cyber attack
Over the weekend, Wichita State University took proactive measures and disconnected several University systems to isolate an unauthorized attempt by a third party to access the University’s systems, according to a statement of the school’s website. Most of the University system access has been restored and there has been no indication that any of the…