Months after CISA issued an alert about Karakurt, Davenport Community Schools in Iowa reported some “server issues.” On September 13, Schools Superintendent TJ Schneckloth issued a statement regarding what had been described as “server repairs” after the district went without internet for roughly a week back in September. That statement, updated on October 4, acknowledged…
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Daniel Kaye, an operator behind The Real Deal market, arraigned on federal charges
ATLANTA – Daniel Kaye has been arraigned on charges of access device fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Kaye’s charges arise from his alleged operation of The Real Deal, a Dark Web market that sold, among other things, hacking tools and stolen login credentials, and his laundering of funds he received from that market. “While living…
“Every Rhode Islander Should be Concerned,” Says ACLU’s Brown on RIPTA Data Breach Lawsuit
GoLocalProv reports: Cooperating attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU) on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) over an August 2021 data breach at RIPTA that compromised the Social Security numbers and other personal and health care information of…
Newly Unsealed Indictment Charges Ukrainian National with International Cybercrime Operation
Dedicated Website (Raccoon.IC3.gov) Announced to Assist in Identifying Malware Victims AUSTIN – A newly unsealed federal grand jury indictment charges Mark Sokolovsky, 26, a Ukrainian national, for his alleged role in an international cybercrime operation known as Raccoon Infostealer, which infected millions of computers around the world with malware. According to court documents, Sokolovsky, who…
FTX to give a ‘one-time’ $6M compensation to phishing victims
Jesse Coghlan reports: Cryptocurrency exchange FTX will provide around $6 million in compensation to victims of a phishing scam that allowed hackers to conduct unauthorized trades on certain FTX users’ accounts. FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried posted in a Twitter thread on Oct. 23 that the exchange generally doesn’t award compensation to its users “phished by fake versions of…
Paying off hackers is common, says top Australian govt cybersecurity firm
Byron Kaye reports: Corporate insurers routinely pay hackers a ransom for the return of stolen customer data, a top Australian government cybersecurity provider said on Tuesday (Oct 25), as the country’s biggest health insurer revealed the growing scale of a recent breach. The claim from Macquarie Telecom Group, which runs cybersecurity for 42 per cent…