Richard Chirgwin reports: TAFE South Australia has revealed a data breach that was discovered when SA Police seized “devices containing electronic scanned copies of TAFE SA student identification forms”. TAFE SA said the identification forms included credentials such as driver’s licences and passports for enrolments prior to 2021 across all campuses. Read more at itNews.
Author: Dissent
UnitedLex hit by d0nut ransomware team, 200 GB of corporate files leaked (update4)
The d0nut ransomware team seems to be ramping up their activity and leaks. Last week, they contacted DataBreaches about Montgomery General Hospital in West Virginia. Today, they reached out to this site about UnitedLex, a firm that describes itself as helping legal teams modernize “with a consultative framework that brings together legal subject matter expertise,…
“Operation Cookie Monster” takes down Genesis Market
Brian Krebs reports: Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with “dozens” of arrests in the United…
New Money Message ransomware demands million dollar ransoms
Bill Toulas reports: A new ransomware gang named ‘Money Message’ has appeared, targeting victims worldwide and demanding million-dollar ransoms not to leak data and release a decryptor. The new ransomware was first reported by a victim on the BleepingComputer forums on March 28, 2023, with Zscaler’s ThreatLabz soon after sharing information on Twitter. Read more at BleepingComputer. As…
Rorschach – A new sophisticated and fast ransomware
Research by: Jiri Vinopal, Dennis Yarizadeh and Gil Gekker Key Findings: Check Point Research (CPR) and Check Point Incident Response Team (CPIRT) encountered a previously unnamed ransomware strain, we dubbed Rorschach, deployed against a US-based company. Rorschach ransomware appears to be unique, sharing no overlaps that could easily attribute it to any known ransomware strain. In addition, it…
Cyber attack downs major Israeli university websites
The Jersualem Post reports: Websites of multiple major universities in Israel were attacked by a group of hackers calling themselves “Anonymous Sudan” on Tuesday. Among the websites unavailable for browsing were the sites of Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Haifa University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Open University of Israel…