Josh Taylor reports: Former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers are the latest to have been informed by Optus that their personal information was exposed in the company’s massive data breach, as an identification repair service reveals it has fielded a month’s worth of complaint calls in three days. Read more at The Guardian. In related news, Hannah…
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Swachh City Platform Suffers Data Breach Leaking 16 Million User Records
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report…
Health worker photographed patient credit cards and went shopping with them, cops say
Brendan Rascius reports: A Maryland woman accused of using stolen credit and debit card information — then using it to shop online — has been charged with 120 counts of theft and fraud, police said in a news release. The woman was employed at a Walgreens in Cambridge, Maryland, a riverside city of about 13,000…
Leaked LockBit 3.0 builder used by ‘Bl00dy’ ransomware gang in attacks
Lawrence Abrams reports: The relatively new Bl00Dy Ransomware Gang has started to use a recently leaked LockBit ransomware builder in attacks against companies. Last week, the LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder was leaked on Twitter after the LockBit operator had a falling out with his developer. This builder allows anyone to build a fully functional encryptor and decryptor…
Inside a cyberattack method that targets your cellphone
Tim Starks reports: A recent spree of “smishing” attacks points to what some experts anticipate will be a wider threat in the future. The technique, which claims victims at Twilio and targeted others at Cloudflare, combines text messages intent on luring victims into clicking on a link, leans on the ubiquity of smartphones, seeks to…
Internet outage in Tucson area was due to cyber attack, Cox says
KVOA reports: An internet outage that affected Tucsonans over the weekend was due to a cyber attack, according to Cox Communications. Cox says the attack has been stopped and that no customer information was compromised. They said their efforts to stop the attack was the reason for the internet outage. Read more at KVOA.