David Sun and Isabelle Liew report: A database of user accounts believed to have been stolen from online marketplace Carousell is being sold on the Dark Web and hacking forums, checks by The Sunday Times found. The database, allegedly containing 2.6 million accounts’ information, is being sold for $1,000. Carousell said on Friday that 1.95…
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Federal and state authorities investigate a data breach at Philadelphia-area OB/GYN practice
Wendy Ruderman reports: Federal and state authorities are looking into allegations that a Main Line Women’s Healthcare employee used a personal cellphone to capture confidential information from medical charts, potentially affecting more than 800 patients at the OB/GYN practice, which has offices in King of Prussia, Malvern, Plymouth Meeting and Bryn Mawr. Read more at…
Computer hacker of famous musicians’ digital accounts is jailed
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service issued the following press release today: A computer hacker who stole unreleased music from famous musicians and sold them on the dark web in exchange for cryptocurrency has today been imprisoned. Adrian Kwiatkowski (DOB: 11/10/1999) offered to sell two unreleased songs by British pop star, Ed Sheeran and 12 unreleased…
CISA Alert: Daixin Team
[Comment: I’ve been waiting for this since I first suspected that Daixin Team might be responsible for the CommonSpirit breach. And although it has not been confirmed by anyone, I still suspect them of that one. — Dissent] Alert (AA22-294A) #StopRansomware: Daixin Team Download the PDF version of this report: pdf, 591 KB Technical Details Note:…
EnergyAustralia hit by cyber attack in latest breach
Freya Noble reports: EnergyAustralia is the latest business to be hit by a cyber attack, resulting in customer details being exposed. The electricity company said the breach involved the customer platform My Account and 323 residential and small business customer accounts were accessed. These accounts include the customer’s name, address, email address, electricity and gas…
OldGremlin, which targets Russia, debuts new Linux ransomware
Dev Kundaliya reports: Russian-speaking ransomware gang OldGremlin, which unusually targets Russian entities, is now using file-encrypting malware to target Linux machines. That’s according to the cybersecurity company Group-IB which on Thursday published what it claims to be the first comprehensive report on OldGremlin ransomware group, also referred to as TinyScouts. Read more at Computing.